‘Economies of Commoning’ is a practice-based research project investigating the potential of commoning practices to socially (re)produce and sustain common spaces for critical engagement and emancipation, in Berlin-Neukölln and beyond. Through a Marxist-feminist lens of care, the approach of the commons is explored as the leading narrative of this research: as a practical and philosophical framework of an emergent culture of mutual respect and interdependence amongst and between human and more-than-human agents, of networked self-organisation and cooperation, and of a new understanding of ‘the economy’ towards new forms of social relations and ways of being in and with the world.
This research is conducted by myself as part of my PhD-studies, based remotely at Sheffield University School of Architecture in the UK and supervised by architect Doina Petrescu and environmental geographer Jenny Pickerill.
You can find more info on the project and its outcomes here: http://economiesofcommoning.net/