On April 19th 2012, Communautique organized the first working lunch “Commons lunches” at its offices in Montreal. The context of the event was remarkable; for two months already an unprecedented social movement initiated and driven by students had taken over…
Chartes de gouvernance
Which governance for the “Remix the commons” project and what governance model in the commons movement ? Lead by LARTES-IFAN, the coordination of governance worked on establishing a prototype of the governance charter and of the REMIX platform. It has…
À l’école des communs
The “At the school of Commons” meeting has the goal of bringing in all sorts of creative people, activists and users of common goods, in order to help the exchange between these people and allow the development and social appropriation…
Droits en Biens Communs
Rights in Common aims at documenting the place of law based on commons in the context of the Rio+20 negociations. During 2011, the preparation of the United Nations conference on sustainable development (Rio+20) with the Rio+20 french collective and the…
Itinéraires en Biens Communs
For the social appropriation of Commons to be a source of emancipation, it should be rooted in a geographic, social and historical context, it should take on the past and present practices, traditions and thinking while account for outside inputs…
Petits Déjeuners en-Commun au Sénégal
The Breakfasts in-Common process was initiated by Senegal’s “Centre d’Art Senegalais Kër Thiossane” and Quebec’s “Communautique”, as part of the project Remix the Commons. Born from a research dynamic about endogenous definitions of commons, Breakfasts in-Common bring occasions to think…
Remix Biens Communs présenté sur Revista Pillku
Santiago Hoerth Moura from Revista Pillku met Alain Ambrosi in Mexico City last November 2012 during the preparatory meeting for the Economics, Commons Conference. They have discussed about commons and about Remix the Commons project. Santiago Hoerth Moura has published…
Revendiquer les Communs – Nourriture pour tous à Haultain Boulevard
Peak Moment 185: Rainey Hopewell’s crazy idea has ended up feeding a neighborhood and creating community. She and Margot Johnston planted vegetables in the parking strip in front of their house. They offer them free for the taking ? to…
Sacred Economics avec Charles Eisenstein – Un court métrage
Published Marsh 1st, 2012 Directed by Ian MacKenzie http://ianmack.com Produced by Velcrow Ripper, Gregg Hill, Ian MacKenzie READ THE BOOK http://sacred-economics.com HELP ADD SUBTITLES http://tinyurl.com/6qm37p9 Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing…
Commons Economy Rising
Video that Connor created for the School of Commoning crowdfunding that allowed us to organize the Quilligan seminar series in London. Text : There are at least 2 major factors at play in the universe. For our purposes we’ll call…