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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]

Key Concepts of This Category

Useful learning resources

• The Commons Transition Primer is a home page linking both to introductory and to deeper articles.

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.

Deeper Study

• The Commons Transition Wiki is a repository for policy papers and proposals related to Commons Transition.
• The Commons Transition Plan is based on the FLOK Society Project in Ecuador around 2014.
  • The Commons Transition Plan in the Commons Transition Website
  • The Commons Transition Plan in the Commons Transition Wiki
• Mutation of Economics into the Fifth Integral-Arational Structure of Consciousness
• One transition, many transitions? A corpus-based study of societal sustainability transition discourses in four civil society’s proposals

More resources are linked from the Commons Transition summary page.

Related Categories

• Category: Commons is a broader category dealing with the Commons more generally, 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).

The Commons Transition Plan

The Commons Transition Plan is a non-region specific adaptation of the 1st Commons Transition plan developed by Michel Bauwens for | The 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.

Related P2P Transition Proposals

• Las Indias summarizes p2p thinking from the period 2012-2013: http://english.lasindias.com/michel-bauwens-and-the-new-socioeconomic-alternatives/
• 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 institutional concepts of the Partner State and Public-Commons Partnerships
• 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
• Transition Proposals Towards a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society
• Three Competing Societal and Economic Models in the Age of Peer Production

Specialized Domain-Specific Transition Proposals

See also the Category: Policy

• Policies for Shareable Commons Domains, Alanna Hartzok
• Transforming the energy matrix: Transition Policies for the Development of the Distributed Energy Model. by George Dafermos, Panos Kotsampopoulos, et al. [2] ; General Principles for Policy Making for Distributed Energy
• Transforming the Productive Base of the Economy Through the Open Design Commons and Distributed Manufacturing

Key Articles