Join Culture for Climate Scotland online to explore the commons, what this alternative paradigm is, and the emerging creative practices to sustain and co-create commons.

Date: 12pm-1.30pm, Mon 8 December 2025
Location: Online via Zoom

In the first half of this Green Tease, independent researcher Dr Svenja Meyerricks will introduce the themes of commons and commoning. Some brief definitions published by the University of Edinburgh Futures Institute to start with:

‘Commons are material or social resources that are managed and coordinated (and sometimes owned in a formal legal sense) by a community. Their stewardship is guided by norms and values for sustainable community governance without sole dependence on either state control or market mechanisms. More broadly, the commons can also represent an alternative paradigm for social, economic and political organisation and development, based on principles and practices of solidarity and democratic governance’

Commoning is ‘the social practices undertaken by communities to create, develop, sustain or govern common resources. Typical amongst such practices are collaboration, co-production, participation, and deliberation.’

Following this, Fran Quiroga, Director of Concomitentes, will share the story of their Land Commons project. Land Commons radically reimagined the role of creative processes in the collective management of a woodland in Galicia, northern Spain.

At 12.45pm, there will be a five-minute screen break.

They’ll end this Green Tease by building a temporary digital commons. Artist Ailie Rutherford will facilitate use of String Figures, a prototype collaborative software for collective working centred on the principles of mutual care and co-operation. Ailie co-designed the software with Bettina Nissen and creative technologist Bob Moyler.

For further information, please contact eleanor.white@cultureforclimate.scot (Eleanor White), call 0131 243 2760 or visit https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cultureforclimatescotland/1921830.