The politics of commoning and designing

Elzenbaumer, Bianca, Graziano, Valeria and Trogal, Kim (2016) The politics of commoning and designing. Proceedings of DRS 2016 Design + Research + Society Future – Focused Thinking: 50th Anniversary International Conference Brighton, UK, 27-30 June 2016, Volume 10. In: DRS2016 Design + Research + Society | Future Focused Thinking: 50th Anniversary International Design Research Society Conference, 27-30 June 2016, Brighton, UK. . ISSN 2398-3132 [Conference or Workshop Item] (doi:10.21606/drs.2016.614)

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Abstract

This theme aims to bring together practitioners, activists and researchers to explore the tensions and potentialities around commoning in design and the (re)production of ‘community economies’. As De Angelis (2007) and others point out, commons are today thought as the basis on which to build social justice, environmental sustainability and a good life for all. But they, just as ‘community economies’ (J.K. Gibson-Graham and Roelvink, 2011), operate within a world dominated by capital’s priorities and are thus also sites of struggle as well as targets of co-optation and enclosure.

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