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The New Enterprise Development team from UBC is nearing the end of their class, and are about to do a final presentation. They’re asking for people to submit video clips explaining why they want something like the Innovation Commons to exist. Of course, my interest is seeing this actually happen here in Vancouver, but I think the model would work well in any city in the world: throw a bunch of smart, independent, motivated people together in one space and let collaboration and innovation blossom. Hmmm…too schmalzy? Perhaps, but tell us why you want something like this in your own city — the students are going to put together a video montage. Time is short: their presentation is on Thursday morning, so your post pretty much needs to be up by tomorrow. A podcast would probably work, too.

— I’ll be updating this post later with my own video clip —

Update: Aargh. The video is sitting at home in draft mode. I’m uploading a video filled with a high number of "ums" per minute that I took with my cameraphone just now. Here’s the 3gp file.

Actually, thinking more about this, it would be great if the team’s presentation (which includes a business model, among other things) could be made available for people to run with in their own city…hmm, I smell some Creative Commons licensing coming up.

P.S. Need a place to put your video? Roland wrote up his recent experiences on video sharing services with lots of different suggestions.

A forgotten revolutionary: Thomas Spence on saving the commons§

URL :

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2022/06/04/a-forgotten-revolutionary-thomas-spence-on-saving-the-commons/

[[Thomas Spence]].

• an [[article]].
  • [[10 design principles for governing the commons]]
  • #go https://www.lifewithalacrity.com/article/10-design-principles-for-governing-the-commons/
  • [[DEFINE BOUNDARIES]]: There are clearly defined boundaries around the common resources of a system from the larger environment.
  • [[DEFINE LEGITIMATE USERS]]: There is a clearly defined community of legitimate users of those resources.
  • [[ADAPT LOCALLY]]: Rules for use of resources are adapted to local needs and conditions.
  • [[DECIDE INCLUSIVELY]]: Those using resources are included in decision making.
  • [[MONITOR EFFECTIVELY]]: There exists effective monitoring of the system by accountable monitors.
  • [[SHARE KNOWLEDGE]]: All parties share knowledge of local conditions of the system.
  • [[HOLD ACCOUNTABLE]]: Have graduated sanctions for those who violate community rules.
  • [[OFFER MEDIATION]]: Offer cheap and easy access to confict resolution.
  • [[GOVERN LOCALLY]]: Community self-determination is recognized by higher-level authorities.
  • [[DON’T EXTERNALIZE COSTS]]: Resource systems embedded in other resource systems are organized in and accountable to multiple layers of nested communities.

enclosure of the commons§

between 1760 and 1870, about 7 million acres (about one sixth the area of England) were changed, by some 4,000 acts of parliament, from common land to enclosed land.

– What the battle for Freeman’s Wood says about the future of our common land |…

[[Commons]].

In England, over the course of a few centuries, lands that were held and cared for by communities in common were expropriated, fenced in and enclosed as private property to be owned by a small elite. This process of transforming shared interdependent ecologies into separate, scarce and privately owned ‘things’ was encoded into property law and violently exported across the world in a continuous and unceasing process of colonisation.

– [[Seeding the Wild]]

expropriation of the commons§

• a [[book]]
  • by [[elinor ostrom]]
  • [[1990]]
  • [[wp]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-40599-7 pull
  • [[hypothesis]] https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.actu-environnement.com/media/pdf/ostrom_1990.pdf
    • [[go]] [[hypothesis]]
  • [[google books]] https://books.google.ch/books?id=4xg6oUobMz4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9780521405997&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiU5ZfmhczwAhWEuaQKHVnnCEwQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1401146586013618183 pull https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1400884449949126663 pull

• [[book]]
  • [[author]] [[elinor ostrom]]
  • [[common pool resource]] [[cpr]]
  • [[tragedy of the commons]]
  • [[prisoner’s dilemma]]
  • [[collective action]]
  • [[leviathan]]
  • [[new institutionalism]]
  • [[self-organized governance]]

Governing the Commons§

[[Elinor Ostrom]].

• [[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/111993980398590154 pull

• [[2024-02-25 20:22:03+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):

  • #10 design principles for [[governing the commons]]: https://www.lifewithalacrity.com/article/10-design-principles-for-governing-the-commons/

Hacking for the Commons§

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/hackingforthecommons/479130288

I like the commons§

[[I like]] the [[Commons]].

Because…

• [[Commoning represents a profound challenge to capitalism]]
• [[A commons is a politics of belonging]]
• [[The commons enables people to enjoy freedom without repressing others]]
• [[The commons enables people to enact fairness without bureaucratic control]]
• [[The commons enables people to foster togetherness without compulsion]]
• [[The commons enables people to assert sovereignty without nationalism]]

Epistemic status§

Type : [[feeling]]

Strength : 9

How well I could explain why : 6

international journal of the commons§

• a [[journal]].
  • [[go]] https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/abstract/10.18352/ijc.76/
  • [[traditions and trends in the study of the commons]] https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/abstract/10.18352/ijc.76/

restoring the commons§

• [[flaneur@merveilles.town]] https://merveilles.town/@flaneur/110164685696134391 pull

• [[2023-04-08 18:48:21+00:00]] @[[flaneur@merveilles.town]] (link):

  • I don’t know who has the position currently, but I sort of feel my ideal job outside of Google would be CEO of Mozilla. I’d try to steer the ship in the direction of the loving-kind [[Revolution of the Commons]].

Silke Helfrich & David Bollier: What Is The Commons?§

URL : https://voices-of-the-commons.sounder.fm/episode/silke-helfrich-david-bollier-what-is-the-common

Publisher : [[Guerrilla Media Collective]]

Guests : [[David Bollier]], [[Silke Helfrich]]

Topics : [[Commons]]

Nice little podcast on the commons. What is it, what are [[Patterns of Commoning]], how do you inculcate a commoner mindset.

Social Transformation Through ‘The Commons’§

A : [[podcast]]

URL :

https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/episode-17-social-transformation-through-commons-w-david-bollier

Series : [[The Next System]]

Featuring : [[David Bollier]]

Great interview with David Bollier on the [[commons]] (natural, urban, digital), [[commoning]], re-recognising the value in things that sit outside of market economics and exchange value. (Contains the bombshell that apparently 20% of the human genome has already been enclosed and patented. WTF?!)

Sovereignty for the Commons§

A : [[podcast]]

URL : https://theblockchainsocialist.buzzsprout.com/903769/10423365-ccg-chronicles-7-sovereignty-for-the-commons

[[Sovereignty]] for the [[Commons]].

Sarah Manski.

~00:06:03 Socio technical imaginary where you can imagine future you want and then build it.

~00:09:06 Sovereignty. In various spaces, nation, city, workplace, etc. Digital platforms usually pretty authoritarian.

~00:13:50 [[Gramsci]], [[interregnum]].

~00:32:25 I like her personal definition of [[cryptocommons]]: distributing wealth of planet to all people of planet using technology.

The Nested-I and Ubuntu Rationality: The Relational Ontology of the Commons§

A section in the book [[Free, Fair and Alive]].

Commoning has a different orientation to the world because its actions are based on a deep relationality of everything. It is a world of dense interpersonal connections and interdependencies. Actions are not simply matters of direct cause-and-effect between the most proximate, visible actors; they stem from a pulsating web of culture and myriad relationships through which new things emerge.

[[Relational ontology]]. [[Ubuntu Rationality]]. [[Nested-I]].

the tragedy of the commons§

Tragedy of the Commons§

[[Garrett Hardin]].

Hardin’s “tragedy” thesis ought to be renamed “The Tragedy of Unmanaged, Laissez-Faire, Commons-Pool Resources with Easy Access for Non-Communicating, Self-Interested Individuals.”

– [[Free, Fair and Alive]]

Even Hardin (1994) eventually acknowledged that the tragedy of the commons only applies to “unmanaged commons”, by which he meant simple open access resources with no use constraints. Of course, such resources are not commons, because it is the shared management that makes a resource a commons.

– [[dulongderosnay2020: Digital commons]]

[[Fat-tailed sheep]] in Afghanistan. The “tragedy of the commons” is one way of accounting for [[overexploitation]] - [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fat_tailed_sheep,_Afghanistan,_1976.jpg wikimedia]

The tragedy of the commons describes a situation in economic science when individual users, who have open access to a resource unhampered by shared social structures or formal rules that govern access and use, act independently according to their [[selfishness]] and, contrary to the common good of all users, cause depletion of the resource through their uncoordinated action. The concept originated in an essay written in 1833 by the British economist [[William Forster Lloyd]], who used a hypothetical example of the effects of unregulated grazing on [[common land]] (also known as a "common") in [[Great Britain]] and [[Ireland]]. The concept became widely known as the "tragedy of the commons" over a century later after an article written by [[Garrett Hardin]] in 1968 - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons wikipedia]

Although open-access resource systems may collapse due to overuse (such as in [[over-fishing]]), many examples have existed and still do exist where members of a community with regulated access to a common resource co-operate to exploit those resources prudently without collapse or even creating [[Perfect Order]]. [[Elinor Ostrom]] was awarded the 2009 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] for demonstrating exactly this concept in her book ”Governing the Commons”, which included examples of how local communities were able to do this without top-down regulations or [[privatization]].

In a modern economic context, "[[commons]]" is taken to mean any open-access and unregulated resource such as the [[Carbon dioxide#In the Earth’s atmosphere]], [[Great Pacific garbage patch]], [[river]]s, ocean [[fish stocks]], or even an office refrigerator. In a legal context, it is a type of property that is neither private nor public, but rather held jointly by the members of a community, who govern access and use through social structures, traditions, or formal rules.

The term is used also in [[environmental science]]. The "tragedy of the commons" is often cited in connection with [[sustainable development]], meshing economic growth and environmental protection, as well as in the [[Global warming controversy]]. It has also been used in analyzing behavior in the fields of [[economics]], [[evolutionary psychology]], [[anthropology]], [[game theory]], [[politics]], [[taxation]], and [[sociology]].

Sections§

See also§

• [[Bounded rationality]]
• [[Dutch disease]]
• [[Externality]]
• [[Credentialism and educational inflation]]
• [[International Association for the Study of the Commons]]
• [[Nash equilibrium]]
• [[Race to the bottom]]
• [[Panic buying]]
• [[Parasitism (social offense)]]
• [[Prisoner’s dilemma]]
• [[Social reputation in fiction]]
• [[Social trap]]
• [[Somebody else’s problem]]
• [[Stone Soup]]
• [[Tragedy of the anticommons]]
• [[Tyranny of small decisions]]
• [[Unscrupulous diner’s dilemma]]
• [[The Evolution of Cooperation]]
• [[Unintended consequences]]
• [[Volunteer’s dilemma]]
• [[Overfishing]]
• [[Shark finning]]
• [[Pacific bluefin tuna]]

• [[2022-12-04 17:19:17+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1599453298435784713 pull

• [[2022-12-04 17:19:17+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1599453298435784713 pull

RT @flancian@social.coop smallcircles ocdtrekkie jonny hmiron alcinnz an [[agora]] tries to give communities the tools to solve the so called [[tragedy of the commons]] — should a tool/device like this be proposed to a standards body? https://t.co/RIYBCdX8g5

Urban density is a tragedy of the commons§

Metadata§

• Author: [[Devon Zuegel]]
• Full Title: Urban density is a tragedy of the commons
• Category: #articles
• URL: https://devonzuegel.com/post/urban-density-is-a-tragedy-of-the-commons

Highlights§

• Put another way, each of us tends to choose a larger homes than we want our neighbors to choose. Of course most people can’t afford a mansion, but they will always want as much space as they can get. Financial constraints keep this dynamic from spiraling out of control, but at the margin there’s constant pressure towards sprawl. The result: an undersupply of urban neighborhoods.

What is the relationship between cooperatives and the commons?§

They are both related to self-ownership and self-governance.

[[Cooperatives]] are more structure, [[commons]] is more culture?

Coops need a culture of commoning. [[Coops can turn in to bad actors if there is no culture of commoning]].

Coops can be stewards of the commons.

You might wonder why cooperatives are often cited as examples of the commons when in fact many of them seem to produce for and sustain themselves entirely from the market.

– [[Free, Fair and Alive]]

The reason is that many cooperatives have not found cultural means to Keep Commons & Commerce Distinct.

– [[Free, Fair and Alive]]

Resources§

• [[Nathan Schneider - Cooperatives, the Commons and Ownership]]