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This is the Category Page for Commons Transition, i.e. projects that are specifically or more loosely related to a commons-oriented transition for our political economy, society, and civilizational model.
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 Transition Plan=
"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."


The Commons Transition Plan is a non-region specific adaptation of the 1st Commons Transition plan developed by Michel Bauwens for [[:category: FLOK | Ecuador's FLOK Society project]]. The Ecuadorian plan was itself built on the original FLOK Proposal "Sumak Yachay. Devenir Sociedad del Conocimiento Común y Abierto. Designing the FLOK Society. v.1.5.2. By Xabier E. Barandiarán & Daniel Vázquez, 2013.", i.e. Designing the FLOK Society, by  Xabier E. Barandiarán & Daniel Vázquez. The FLOK Society team leaders were Daniel Vazquez and Xabier Barandiarán, with Michel Bauwens, as research director, assisted by five research stream coordinators and the assistant coordinator Daniel Araya. Building on those proposals, the plan specifically calls for an integrative or 'wholistic' approach, which goes beyond technology, and calls for measures that take into account different aspects of social change that need to occur if not simultaneously, then at least linked through a positive feedback loop, in which various measures reinforce each other. It also broadens and deepens the call by looking at commons-based infrastructures not just for knowledge, but for other social and productive activities.
- Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico [http://www.shareable.net/blog/ubiquitous-commons-imagines-a-p2p-revolution-in-rural-italy]


=Related P2P Transition Proposals=


* The [http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan Commons Transition Plan], crafted for the floksociety.org project in Ecuador in 2014
"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)."


* Las Indias summarizes recent p2p thinking from the period 2012-2013: http://english.lasindias.com/michel-bauwens-and-the-new-socioeconomic-alternatives/
- Benjamin J. Birkinbine [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d702/fe9f40d70186b8468457e3bcd736bd3ad6e0.pdf]


* a good summary of the triarchical proposal to simultaneously transform civil society, the market and the state: http://www.shareable.net/blog/blueprint-for-p2p-society-the-partner-state-ethical-economy
==Key Concepts of This Category==


* key institutional concepts of the [[Partner State]] and [[Public-Commons Partnerships]]
How can we transition from a society centered around the capitalist market, to a society that would be commons centric ?


* local and large-scale political strategies: 1) local change through civic Alliances of the Commons and Chamber of the Commons producing social charters to recreate local political majorities: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/proposed-next-steps-for-the-emerging-p2p-and-commons-networks/2013/04/02 ; 2) the global alliance of the commons at nation-state level and beyond http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/04/2012416102253184145.html
* What kind of economics would govern such a new political economy ? See: [[:Category: Commons Economics]]


* [[Transition Proposals Towards a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society]]
* What kind of socio-technical infrastructures would we need to strenghten for such a transition? See: [[:Category: Commons Infrastructure]]


* [[Three Competing Societal and Economic Models in the Age of Peer Production]]
* What kind of policy proposals can bring about or hasten such a transition. See: [[:Category: Commons Policy]]


==Useful learning resources==


=Specialized Domain-Specific Transition Proposals=
===Introductory===


'''* Transforming the energy matrix: [[Transition Policies for the Development of the Distributed Energy Model]]. by George Dafermos, Panos Kotsampopoulos, et al.''' [http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-7-policies-for-the-commons/peer-reviewed-papers/transforming-the-energy-matrix/] ; [[General Principles for Policy Making for Distributed Energy]]
* The '''[http://commonstransition.org/ Commons Transition Primer]''' is a home page linking both to introductory and to deeper articles.
* ''' [http://commonstransition.org/stories/ 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.


* [[Transforming the Productive Base of the Economy Through the Open Design Commons and Distributed Manufacturing]]
More resources are linked from the [[Commons Transition]] summary page (which used to serve as this category page).
 
 
===Deeper Study===
 
* '''[http://wiki.commonstransition.org/wiki/Main_Page The Commons Transition Wiki]''' is a repository for policy papers and proposals related to Commons Transition.
 
* [[Mutation of Economics into the Fifth Integral-Arational Structure of Consciousness]]
 
* [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-018-0631-9 One transition, many transitions? A corpus-based study of societal sustainability transition discourses in four civil society’s proposals]
 
 
===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.
** '''[http://commonstransition.org/a-commons-transition-plan/ The Commons Transition Plan in the Commons Transition Website]'''
 
* 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: [http://commonstransition.org/changing-societies-through-urban-commons-transitions/ CHANGING SOCIETIES THROUGH URBAN COMMONS TRANSITIONS], also called the Commons Transition Plan for the City of Ghent. See the original [https://stad.gent/sites/default/files/article/documents/Commons%20Transitie%20Plan%20Gent.pdf? 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: [http://commonstransition.org/p2p-accounting-for-planetary-survival/ 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).
 
 
 
[[Category:Commons]]

Latest revision as of 06:58, 13 January 2024

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 ?

Useful learning resources

Introductory

  • 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


P2P Foundation Material

  • 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"

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Media in category "Commons Transition"

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