If we want a post-Covid recovery to come with stronger communities, then “commons thinking” will be vital
More fascinating thinking about how the realm of the “commons” (see our archive) - beyond left and right, state and market - is becoming a very useful way to think about planet-friendly living, harmonising technology, nature, culture and psychology.
We’re promoted Torange Khonsari’s commons courses and education in this space before, and enjoyed some strong conversations with her, but it’s great to have a clear presentation of her thinking around commons practice in this presentation, under the aegis of her university, the London Met.
The talk foregrounds how new thinking in the commons brings together all the fragmented concepts such as placemaking, co-production, social wealth-building, community empowerment and trust-building under one practical idea with different methodologies.
Its application is timely when Covid-19 has changed the landscape of where we work, socialise, and foregrounds the importance of home security.
We really like Torange’s gentle but very well-researched mode of presentation here. Give yourself the time to dwell with her explanations, which straddle the ground between economic, social and cultural considerations. After an initial theoretical plan, there are plenty of practical examples from her own engaged practice as a “commoner”.
