Category:Commons Transition
This Commons Transition category relates to projects that are specifically or more loosely related to a commons-oriented transition for our political economy, society, and civilizational model.
Key Quotes
"The commons are in the midst of a “double transition,”. On the one hand, the resources at stake are often abundant and immaterial—think personal data generated by social media networks or activity sensors—as opposed to scarce and material—like water and grazing land."
- Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico [1]
"Antonios Broumas (2017) developed a typology of commons theory to differentiate between social democratic and critical theories of the intellectual commons. His analysis may also be mapped onto the digital commons. According to Broumas, social democratic theories of the commons “employ political economic methodologies to analyse the dynamics that unfold between the commons, the market and the state with the aim to propose reconfigurations of these relations which will best serve social welfare” (Ibid., 103). Such theorists argue that by making progressive changes to existing structures, we can bring about a more just and egalitarian society. As it concerns the digital commons, the goal is to build repositories and platforms for commons-based knowledge and peer-to-peer production that can, in turn, bring about greater degrees of personal freedom as well as democratic decision-making (Bauwens 2005; Benkler 2006)."
- Benjamin J. Birkinbine [2]
Key Concepts of This Category
How can we transition from a society centered around the capitalist market, to a society that would be commons centric ?
- What kind of economics would govern such a new political economy ? See: Category: Commons Economics
- What kind of socio-technical infrastructures would we need to strenghten for such a transition? See: Category: Commons Infrastructure
- What kind of policy proposals can bring about or hasten such a transition. See: Category: Commons Policy
Useful learning resources
Introductory
- The Commons Transition Primer is a home page linking both to introductory and to deeper articles.
- Commons Transition Stories contains a selection of featured essays, interviews and texts on Commons Transition projects and related initiatives, many of them suitable for general introductory reading.
More resources are linked from the Commons Transition summary page (which used to serve as this category page).
Deeper Study
- The Commons Transition Wiki is a repository for policy papers and proposals related to Commons Transition.
P2P Foundation Material
- The Commons Transition Plan is based on the FLOK Society Project in Ecuador around 2014. It deals with the setting up of commons of knowledge for all sectors of activity in society.
- The second important document is focusing on urban commons, which are at this stage, mostly about mutualizing the distribution of provisioning systems through shared resources. See our report: CHANGING SOCIETIES THROUGH URBAN COMMONS TRANSITIONS, also called the Commons Transition Plan for the City of Ghent. See the original Dutch-language report; also available in a [ English translation]
- Our third important report examines the socio-technical infrastructures, at cosmo-local scale, needed for this transition in our productive and (pre)distributive systems. See: P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival: Towards a P2P Infrastructure for a Socially Just Circular Society. By Michel Bauwens and Alex Pazaitis. Foreword by Kate Raworth. P2P Foundation, June 2019.
Related Categories
- Category: Commons is a broader category dealing with the Commons more generally, and in principle.
- Category: P2P Transition is an overlapping smaller category, relating to similar issues, more from the perspective of process (P2P) rather than substance (Commons).
Pages in category "Commons Transition"
The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total.
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- Catalonia Integral Cooperative Commons Transition Proposals
- Civic Economy of Provisions
- Co-Bologna
- Co-Cities Report on the Urban Commons Transitions
- Common Wealth Trusts as Structures of Transition
- Commons Approach to European Knowledge Policy
- Commons Double Transition
- Commons Transition Coalition
- Commons Transition Initiative
- Commons Transition Plan
- Commons Transition Plan (FLOK version)
- Commons Transition Plan for the City of Sydney
- Commons Transition Stability Plan and Rapid Response Team
- Complexity Thresholds and Complexity Transitions
- Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy
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- Markets After Capitalism
- Michel Bauwens et Bernard Stiegler sur la Transition vers les Communs
- Michel Bauwens in Conversation with Arthur de Grave
- Michel Bauwens on the Commons Transition
- Michel Bauwens on the Conflicts Between Commoners, Capitalists and Intersectionalists
- Michel Bauwens on the FLOK Project as a Techno-Social Change Project
- Michel Bauwens on the New Social Economy for a Post-Carbon World
- Michel Bauwens sur la Transition Industrielle P2P pour Ars Industrialis
- Mutation of Economics into the Fifth Integral-Arational Structure of Consciousness
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- P2P Approach To Energy Production
- P2P Transition
- Pavlos Georgiadis on a Plan C for the Food System in Greece
- Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
- Plan C for Advancing the Commons Transition in Greece
- Platforms for Participation
- Policies for Commons Collaborative Economies at the European Level
- Policies for Shareable Commons Domains
- Policies for the Commons
- Possibility of Rapid Transition
- Post-Capitalist Strategy of the P2P Foundation
- Projects on Social Economy
- Public Policy for a Partner State
- Public Policy for a Social Economy
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- Rapid Transition Strategy of the Center for Planetary Culture
- Rapid Transitions
- Re-Commoning Food to Crowd-Feed the World
- Reclaiming the Economic Surplus by Liberating the Economic Commons
- Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty Through Resource Dividends
- Role of Liminal Individuals in Time Between Worlds Who Do Not Belong To Either World
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- Three Competing Societal and Economic Models in the Age of Peer Production
- Time Between Worlds
- Transforming the Productive Base of the Economy Through the Open Design Commons and Distributed Manufacturing
- Transition Now
- Transition Policies for the Development of the Distributed Energy Model
- Transition Proposals Towards a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society
Media in category "Commons Transition"
The following 5 files are in this category, out of 5 total.
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Affordability Locked In.pdf ; 635 KB
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CommonsTransition.jpg 255 × 255; 32 KB
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Lecthworth.pdf ; 227 KB
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The Best of Three Worlds.pdf ; 1.16 MB
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The Co-operative Land Bank.pdf ; 509 KB