Commons/commoning - is the pivotal politics . . - in making the living **economy** - in the conduct of the **college** - as a cultural commons of activist *formacion*; and . . - in the cultivating and mobilising of the **pattern language** (which informs and joins up the practice of making the living economy).
So commoning runs right the way through the venture of the college.
David Bollier and Silke Helfrich have done lovely work on commons. Their 2019 *Free, fair and alive - The resurgent power of the commons* contains a pattern language grounded in their anthropological investigation.
Drawing on that set of well-founded insights, the work of **curating, mobilising and stewarding commons** is central in the college - both in the pattern language ‘curriculum’ and in the organisation and practice of the college.
Within this triad, **stewarding** is particularly important. It’s this that makes a commons a commons. It’s also the stewarding, by the members of the commons, that makes the economics utterly radical and the economy potentially **really** ‘new’.
> I wonder whether commoning/commons production has a similar status in the DigLife orientation? Protocolling is a mode of commoning, of course.
In the college, commoning contributes to building a mode of dual power in organisation at city/region/sector levels. Commoning as dual power
# See also - Curating, stewarding and enjoying commons