As Alain Ambrosi wrote in 2012, “Commons is on everyone’s lips“1. In order to make this notion known and to avoid its dilution in sometimes too vague speeches, the collective Remix the Commons endeavors to decipher the practices and to…
What we learn from the history of Ravel’s Bolero
Original publication 21 of May 2016 by Hervé Le Crosnier in Vecam.org . Translation by Nicole Leonard In 1928 Ravel composed Boléro, a piece that would become a worldwide success with hundreds of versions and arrangements. A harmonic crescendo that…
Commons Enter City Hall (1)
Spain’s recent municipal and regional elections have transformed the entire political scene. New citizen coalitions with roots in community groups allied with small progressive political parties won unexpected victories in several large cities. This, plus the fact that two new…
Atlas Of Charters Of Urban Commons
To help reclaiming, protecting and creating commons in our neighborhoods and cities, we offer to co-create an interactive Atlas of the charters of urban commons. The collaborative creation process will develop on an intercultural and interdisciplinary fashion, production and sharing…
The Promise of “Open Cooperativism” by David Bollier
This post is a re-publication of the introduction of David Bollier’s blog from Monday 01/19/2015. David Bollier is presenting the report of a two-day workshop, “Toward an Open Co-operativism,” held in August 2014 in Germany. This post is translated in…
Michel Bauwens, towards a society of knowledge as commons
As we are preparing a public meeting on the 16th. of September in Paris, with Michel Bauwens and Bernard Stiegler, on issues of free knowledge as commons and ecological, social and economic transition, we present here the translation into French…
Culture, Community, And Collaboration: New Routes For The Protection Of The Ancestral Cultural Patrimony
Questions about who “owns” or has the right to benefit from Indigenous heritage are at the core of ongoing political, economic, and ethical debates taking place at local, national, and international levels. When it comes to research in this area,…
La terre de l’autre – Interviews Of Étienne Le Roy
This interview of Etienne Le Roy, made in Paris March 4, 2014, while presenting his work on land ownership synthesized in his book ‘The land of the other. An anthropology of land ownership schemes’ introduces us in the heart of…
New collections of videos Economy and Commons
By posting the 76 clips of the video interviews totalling 8 hours run time, produced at the Berlin Economics and the Commons conference, Remix the Commons initiates two new series on the Commons while adding to the already existing series…
Les communs à l’ordre du jour planétaire
Presentation Framing the commons is a series of interviews made during the first International Commons Conference, co-organized by the Heinrich Boll Foundation and the Commons Strategies Group, took place in Berlin November 1 and 2, 2010. The conference organizers and…