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

How can we transiion from a society centered around the capitalist market, to a society that would be commons centric ?

• For the concept of the Commons, see also our category page: Category: Commons.

• A commons-based society, will be partially characterized by a scaling up and generalization of open contributory systems, managed as commons, see our companion section on the Category: P2P Transition

• 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

• 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).