Urban Commons Research Collective

Exploring the transformative potential of commons in urban contexts

The Commons  offer a relevant proposal on how to generate processes of social reproduction and ecological repair when the capacity to repair is in crisis, or under political and economic threat, as is the case today. These processes can be understood also as political processes which suggest how we may organise our lives together based on principles of care and collaboration. In the urban context, commons raise the question of how resources are governed or managed in cities and, further, how inhabitants can lay claim to common goods without privatising or exercising public control over them.

This website host research on urban commons developed by the Urban Commons Research Collective (UCRC), a group of scholars, practitioners, and activists dedicated to the theory and practice of commoning in urban environments. The collective is interested in researching open organizational systems capable of addressing urgent contemporary challenges such as resilience, climate change, and social inequality and the creative tensions that arise when acting and thinking across multiple worlds of commoning.