Nobel prizewinner Elinor Ostrom got her 2009 award for investigating commons as a widely occurring form of economic organisation that runs against conventional liberal, market-economic rationality: The Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life's Greatest Dilemmas, Wikipedia - Elinor Ostrom.

 

However, my purpose here is not to present  a gloss on ’theory’ or current research, but rather to move towards a framing of ‘commoning’ practice informed by rigorous conceptualisation - a ‘theory-of-practice’ frame - in the form of a pattern language.
 

There’s a great deal of practice-oriented R&D for the commons - see for example, P2P Foundation wiki, commons transition wiki, P2Plab, Remix the commons and work by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich, see below.

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In an obvious way this project hooks up with the FoP RoP project, 1-Making the use value economy. A self-consciously developed, well-governed use-value economy is an economy of commons; a pattern language for commoning is a pattern language for making the use-value economy; the use-value economy is a core element in the pattern language's architecture.

 

This present 2-Commoning project  stands in a close relationship to that of David Bollier and Silke Helfrich, presented in their significant books: The Wealth of the Commons - A world beyond market & state, Patterns of commoning and their federated wiki of work in progress - more below xxx.
 

Within the commoning language, the FoP RoP project                   3-Platforming has particular significance, for the sphere of advanced present-day, peer-to-peer literacy in facilitation and the dance of knowing on local and global scales.

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