Vero Pinzger and Kati Rösch

“Commo… what?” Many people are not yet familiar with the concept of commons or the practice of commoning, even though commoning and common spaces surround us. The Pattern Language of Commoning card deck helps you learn about it and practice commoning within your own environment. Diving into the so-called “commonsverse” gives you insight into the theoretical discussions necessary for understanding the practices and habits of self-organized, consumption-free, and needs-oriented spaces on the one hand. It also helps you make fundamental practices within your own organization visible and enables organizational change.

If you want to learn more about commoning, or if you want to explore how to transform your organization towards more commoning, join our workshop. Our primary goal is to demonstrate various ways to use the card deck to collectively navigate paths of change, while asking: Every day we are doing capitalism—why don’t we get up and do something different?

About

I am Vero Pinzger, former student of Philosophy and European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Next to my studies I try to focus on how I can learn hands-on skills and competencies to promote change in society. Asking myself, how community-led change can be brought up, I ended up working at the Horizon 2020 funded research project Aesthetic and Embodied Learning for a Democracy-as-Becoming (AECED). There I got in contact with the pattern language of commoning and the whole Commonsverse.

I am Kathi: With a background in Human Geography and Spatial Planning from Utrecht University, European youth work, and an interest in the radical imagination of a better future and future spaces, I am always looking for tools and ideas that bring us closer to that vision; to broaden the understanding of how society could come together differently, both mentally and physically.