Papadimitropoulos V Blockchain and the Commons 2022 | 12.52 MB
English | 165 Pages

Title: Blockchain and the Commons
Author: Vangelis Papadimitropoulos
Year: 2022

Payal Arora, "The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0415887119, 1138688045 | PDF | pages: 210 | 2.0 mb
There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical continuity to this cyberleisure geography. This book investigates the digital public sphere by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It makes the case that the history and politics of public parks as an urban commons provides fresh insight into contemporary debates on corporatization, democratization and privatization of the digital commons. This book takes the reader on a metaphorical journey through multiple forms of public parks such as Protest Parks, Walled Gardens, Corporate Parks, Fantasy Parks, and Global Parks, addressing issues such as virtual activism, online privacy/surveillance, digital labor, branding, and globalization of digital networks. Ranging from the 19th century British factory garden to Tokyo Disneyland, this book offers numerous spatial metaphors to bring to life aspects of new media spaces. Readers looking for an interdisciplinary, historical and spatial approach to staid Web 2.0 discourses will undoubtedly benefit from this text.

Mark Bowden, Graham Brown, Nicky Smith, "Archaeology of Town Commons in England: 'A Very Fair Field Indeed'"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 184802035X | PDF | pages: 114 | 21.1 mb
Presents an overview of the archaeology of urban common land. By recognising that urban common land represents a valid historical entity, this book contributes towards successful informed conservation. It contains a variety of illustrations, including contemporary and archive photographs.

Angelos Varvarousis, "Liminal Commons: Modern Rituals of Transition in Greece "
English | ISBN: 0755638891 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Service Design for Urban Commons
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031060342 | 128 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
This book explores the application of service design to urban commons. It originates from a project developed by the research group of POLIMI DESIS Lab of Politecnico di Milano, aimed at imagining the future of the Reggio Emilia Ducal Palace and its park - the Reggia di Rivalta. The peculiarity of the project lays in the idea that the design of a (public) space should be informed by the design of its services, because the development of specific activities actually builds a fundamental part of the identity of a place, conceiving both the tangible and intangible dimensions as part of a single creative process. The combination of a participatory process and the integration of spatial and service design led to infrastructuring a multi-stakeholder participatory action research of envisioning the future of a public good. This effort has been thus framed into a working methodology, specific tools and progressive outputs, which are defined as Service Master Planning (the process), and Service Master Plan (the product), allowing service design professionals to expand their knowledge and develop skills for a new field of application connected to urban planning.

Design Commons: Practices, Processes and Crossovers by Gerhard Bruyns, Stavros Kousoulas
English | EPUB | 2022 | 291 Pages | ISBN : 3030950565 | 21.4 MB
This book directly links the notion of the commons with different design praxes, and explores their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications. It draws out material conditions in four areas of design interest: social design, commons and culture, ecology and transdisciplinary design. As a collection of positions, the diversity of arguments advances the understanding of the commons as both concepts and modes of thinking, and their material translation when contextualised in the domain of design questions. In other words, it moves abstract social science concepts towards concrete design debates. This text appeals to students, researchers and practitioners working on design in architecture, architecture theory, urbanism, and ecology.

People's Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons by Ashley Dawson
English | July 12th, 2022 | ISBN: 1682192970 | 274 pages | True EPUB | 2.22 MB
The science is conclusive: to avoid irreversible climate collapse, the burning of all fossil fuels will have to end in the next decade. In this concise and highly readable intervention, Ashley Dawson sets out what is required to make this momentous shift: simply replacing coal-fired power plants with for-profit solar energy farms will only maintain the toxic illusion that it is possible to sustain relentlessly expanding energy consumption. We can no longer think of energy as a commodity. Instead we must see it as part of the global commons, a vital element in the great stock of air, water, plants, and cultural forms like language and art that are the inheritance of humanity as a whole.

Advances In Korean Studies 54 Commons Perspectives In South Korea Context Fields And Alternatives 2022 | 8.13 MB
N/A | 279 Pages

Title: Commons Perspectives in South Korea; Context, Fields, and Alternatives
Author: Hyun Choe
Year: N/A

English | ASIN: B099M8VB3P | 2021 | 7 hours and 20 minutes |MP3|M4B | 201 MB
Commoning was a way of life for most of our ancestors. In Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good, author Heather Menzies journeys to her roots in the Scottish Highlands, where her family lived in direct relation with the land since before recorded time. Beginning with an intimate account of unearthing the heritage of the commons and the real tragedy of its loss, Menzies offers a detailed description of the self-organizing, self-governing, and self-informing principles of this nearly forgotten way of life, including its spiritual practices and traditions. She then identifies pivotal commons practices that could be usefully revived today.

Christine Frison, "Redesigning the Global Seed Commons: Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security "
English | ISBN: 1138300640 | 2018 | 294 pages | PDF | 1297 KB
There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property. This book addresses the legal and policy aspects of the multilateral seed management regime. First, it studies in detail the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the Treaty) in order to understand and identify its dysfunctions. Second, it proposes solutions - using recent developments of the "theory of the commons" - to improve the collective seed management system of the Treaty, a necessary condition for its member states to reach the overall food security and sustainable agriculture goals.