Post · bonfire.cafe

I am whipping up a #commons introduction workshop for @kanthaus since I realized a lot of people come and go without hearing about it - shame!

Anyone got any I can copy/adapt/get inspired by? Preferably ones that see the political power of the commons and/or have interactive stuff?

Doug Webb

@douginamug@mastodon.xyz · last week

I may be having too much fun with this...

Cartoon scene. A Gaussian shaped green hill, with 8 cows on it (4 brown, 4 striped). A CCTV camera sits atop the hill, and a police officer and car are at the bottom. To either side is the "upside-down smile" emoji.

🍃 Nick 🍁

@nick@bath.social · last week

@douginamug @kanthaus

maybe some stuff on https://stroudcommons.org/learn/ is useful? it has a video! (the embed doesn't start at the beginning, I think their mistake...). I didn't watch the video.

I think it's ok if people come and go without intellectually knowing it's "the commons" is fine too, the experience of being in a commons teaches a lot in an embodied/intuitive way.

🍃 Nick 🍁

@nick@bath.social · last week

@douginamug @kanthaus

I guess all the people in the Ostrom studies didn't call their fishing lake a commons? It was just their fishing lake and obviously common!

Doug Webb

@douginamug@mastodon.xyz · last week

@nick ooh, nice link!

Sure, not everyone needs to hear about it, but people that want to build alternatives to <world we live in> can totally gain from it. And that is more or less everyone passing though here.

Embodied is good, but we do periodically get ideological resistance: why all these rules and structures? Can't we all just get along?

So my motivation is to increase internal coherence and cooperation + politically empower people going forward.

🍃 Nick 🍁

@nick@bath.social · last week

@douginamug I guess the "passing though" category are quite a challenge... can't really engage properly in commoning whilst passing though... (as someone with a long history of passing through 😂).

I'm quite skeptical of "simple explanations of the new ways" to achieve much transformation,...

... *but* given at kanthaus they can experience the practise too, maybe that's a great combo, theory and practise together.

(I, and many others, love theory in any case)