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Explore the Commons galaxy through a collection of Stories with focus on different local ecosystems and core themes.

This section takes you on a journey into the experiences of collective spaces, shared by the people who shape and experience them.
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A Common is a resource managed by a community for collective benefit, that generates shared practices and values, through a transparent governance which is independent by state or market control.
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L’Asilo and the birth of urban Civic and Collective use in Naples
L’Asilo is born within the path of ‘emerging commons’ (Micciarelli, 2014). These ones are experiences that grow from the initiative of a community who identifies given resources as commons — because they are necessary for fundamental rights — and self-governs them in cooperative and mutualistic forms. Emerging commons also exist as a critic of austerity: […]
Viskali, a community in search of a new quality of life
Located at the intersection of 5 districts of Riga, Viskaļi opened the doors in 2019. After some fundamental renovation work, the building, which had previously housed the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Transport and Aeronautics of Riga Technical University, was reborn to new life. Nowadays Viskaļi is the largest creative community in Latvia, bringing together more than 200 […]
5 years of Coco Velten
Coco Velten is the story of a challenge taken up in 2017 by the members of Lab Zéro (a public policy innovation laboratory within the Bouches du Rhône Prefecture that brought together members of civil society and public institutions). They set themselves the goal of zero homelessness in Marseilles by 2027, which at the time […]