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]

Key Concepts of This Category

• First, one needs to understand the concept of the Commons, through the Category: Commons.
• From there, the concept of transition essentially means going from our current society and economy to a society and economy based around the commons. This involves moving from hierarchical forms of organisation to Peer to Peer ones.

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 (which used to serve as this category page).

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).