Cooling the Commons

= working on a "Commons-Based Climate Response". [1]

Contextual Quote

"We found that responding to a more extreme climate requires new social practices and new relationships with the commons. Commons are the spaces, resources and knowledge shared by a community, who are, ideally, involved in the regeneration and care of those commons. Trees are an important social commons, but they also present multiple challenges."

Participants

the Cooling the Commons research team includes:

1. Professor Katherine Gibson,
2. Dr Louise Crabtree,
3. Dr Stephen Healy and
4. Dr Emma Power from the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at Western Sydney University (WSU), and
5. Emeritus Professor Helen Armstrong from Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
6. Abby Mellick Lopes, Senior Lecturer in Design, Western Sydney University
7. Cameron Tonkinwise, Professor, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney