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The research project Contemporary Commoning focuses on the ways the commons can contribute to new forms of (digital) public space and initiate different forms of urban development.

 

We played, laughed, and thought hard, during the urban-planning game Redesire, in the latest edition of Common Play With Us!

 

Due to the Corona virus outbreak in Europe, this event has been cancelled. Please keep an eye on our website as we're working on offering an alternative or online session for this event.

 

Can serious games help us to reimagine our political and economic system?

 

Can serious games help us to reimagine our political and economic system? We aim to discover the potential of serious games to help us reclaim the urban commons.

 

At Common Play With Us game nights, we aim to discover the potential of serious games to help us reclaim the urban commons.

 

ATELIER is a five-year project funded by the European Commission that focuses on shaping energy-positive neighbourhoods. Residents, local stakeholders and companies will work together in these neighbourhoods to create a local energy system that generates energy sustainably.

 

The Chamber of Commons made its first appearance at the Embassy of Health of the Dutch Design Week 2019. Read here about the exploration of new forms of cooperation.

 

During Dutch Design Week, the Chamber of Commons explores healthcare as commons, as a response to new healthcare challenges.

 

Do you want to let your creativity run free and contribute to a better world at the same time? Come to the game night on November 7th.

 

How can citizens really use the city in imaginative ways? In the third Common play with us event, we aimed to discover the potential of urban games to explore and transform the city.

 

Do you want to let your creativity run free and contribute to a better world at the same time? Come to the game night on September 5th.

 

How do we create a world that is free, fair and alive? With keynote speakers David Bollier and Silke Helfrich.

 

The Mobility Lab Bicycledatacommons explores the role of data commons in the usage of bicycle data.

 

What were the lessons learned from our Social Tech Tour? Researcher Isabella Krammer dives into the matter.

 

Hidde Kamst examines a more cooperative city with a participatory model and some trade-offs that are involved in participation. 

 

Can games help us achieve a more social and collaborative society? In our Common play with us series, we aim to learn all about games.

 

Sito Veracruz will inform us about the last updates of Fairbnb.coop and will introduce their crowdfunding campaign.

 

How can we establish lasting relations between organisations that are working to sustain the commons? A lab at the Border Sessions festival 2019.

 

Learning to manage academic resources as common property: workshop at Utrecht University.

 

Do you want to let your creativity run free and contribute to a better world at the same time? Come to the game night on May 2nd.

 

In this blog series Hidde Kamst examines different ways of using technology in cities, and the corresponding roles these imply for citizens.

 

Where would we be without plastic? The Social Tech Tour visited vanPlestik, that uses 100% recycled plastic for 3D printer filament.

 

The first stop of the Social Tech Tour tour brought us to OneFarm at A Lab in the North of Amsterdam. Isabella reports.

 

Are you done with the dominant story about the market, profit maximization and economic growth? Come and play a different game.

 

The Social Tech Tour is a series of site visits to innovative, tech-enabled social enterprises. This edition we'll visit Fairfood.

 

The Social Tech Tour is a series of site visits to innovative, tech-enabled social enterprises. This edition we'll visit 02025.

 

The Social Tech Tour is a series of site visits to innovative, tech-enabled social enterprises. This edition we'll visit vanPlestik.

 

The Social Tech Tour is a series of site visits to innovative, tech-enabled social enterprises. This edition we'll visit OneFarm.

 

Are you working on sustainability and curious to know how new, open technologies can contribute? Join the Amsterdam Social Tech Tour.

 

How can scientists, entrepreneurs, policy makers, citizens and creatives best work on solutions for urban issues together?

 

How can scientists, entrepreneurs, policy makers, citizens and creatives best work on solutions for urban issues together?

 

How can scientists, entrepreneurs, policy makers, citizens and creatives best work on solutions for urban issues together?

 

How can scientists, entrepreneurs, policy makers, citizens and creatives best work on solutions for urban issues together?

 

Socrates Schouten will participate in the Tegenlicht Meetup 'Ons basisinkomen' at Pakhuis de Zwijger on Wednesday 28 November. This event is Dutch spoken.

 

In this trash hacking workshop on 29 November we will try to recycle an impossible type of waste: cigarettes butts.

 

Marleen Stikker was one of the guests at the Future of Trust Summit 2018. Elisa Achterberg wrote a report about this gathering.

 

In de World Commons Week we pre-launch The Chamber of Commons and will talk about the Politics of Nature and Amsterdam Rainproof.

 

The Chamber of Commons bolsters the interests of commons and commoners.

 

Marleen Stikker of Waag is the keynote speaker at the Next Tech symposium about technology and blind spot

 

An overview of fragments, with a short description, as chosen by Marleen Stikker for the third episode of VPRO Zomergasten of 2018.

 

What if we could share data on our terms to prevent the waste of food, energy or other valuable resources?

 

How can blockchain help solving sustainability challenges? We look at the much-discussed blockchain technology and look critically at it from a sustainability perspective.

 

How could open-source technologies help in solving sustainability challenges?

 

Building a 'Commons for Data' Lab is one of the special events at Border Sessions in The Hague on June 16th, hosted by DataCommons and Waag.

 

Amsterdam’s radically different tone of voice demonstrated by the newly elected city council on the issue of technology is crystal clear.

 

reSITE, in cooperation with IPR Prague and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Prague will be hosting a free day-long program consisting of a public workshop, public lecture and public evening discussion salon for designers, city creative strategy planners or researchers involved and interested in the collaborative economy to map current creative research, activities and projects related to relevant social and urban developments, and build a network for future collaboration - “Users as Designers” method is empowering people to make and understand products and processes, for more transparency.

 

Tackling timeless needs that matter, with writer and thinker John Thackara: an evening for social change makers, inventive life hackers and enthusiastic self-organized communities. What is an economy actually for? In place of an obsession with stuff, money, and endless growth, John Thackara’s newest book “How to thrive in the next economy?” describes social practices that do more with less, and cherish all-of-life, not just human life.

 

Peer Value: Advancing the Commons Collaborative Economy is a conference integrating conversations and plans of action for shaping and connecting the Commons on a global level. Frank Fresin (Research director) of Waag will be moderator of the conference.

 

An evening on the rich history and promising future of the commons at Pakhuis de Zwijger on 1 September 2016. How can we govern urban commons in co-creation?

 

Pieter van Boheemen (Open Wetlab) will participate in the Bio-Commons workshop during the Pixelache festival in Helsinki from 6 till 8 June 2014. Pixelache Helsinki 2014 will be an international 2-day trans-disciplinary event focusing on the theme of “The Commons”, including bio-, urban culture and knowledge commons topics.

 

On 26 November VPRO's Tegenlicht will broadcast the episode 'De Donut economie' ('Doughnut Economics') with Kate Raworth. This episode is for a large part filmed at our Waag building, in the Theatrum Anatomicum.

 

The new directive called PSD2 will give banks the opportunity to share your data with third parties. Do we need to worry about this development?

 

Commoners from the The Netherlands will gather for the festive launch of 'De Meent', the Dutch Commons Assembly, during the academic Commons-week in Utrecht.

 

More and more opinion leaders are mistaking a few big corporate platforms for the collaborative economy. We need a pro-active policy framework that bends the collaborative economy towards the public good.

 

This opinion article witten by Marleen Stikker has not yet been translated. For the moment, please turn to the Dutch version. We may provide a full translation later.

 

On 21 February, the election programmes of ten Dutch political parties were screened against the perspective of the commons. In a public meeting, about twenty people participated in this daunting task.

 

Airbnb's license to operate in Amsterdam depends on whether it helps or harms the city. Airbnb can help Amsterdam collect its fair share of taxes and guests fit into the community, but it can also resist and damage Amsterdam's quality of life. Let's hope that Airbnb invests in Amsterdam for the long run.

 

On 21 February, the Dutch 'Open Planbureau' will look at the Dutch elections and the political programmes from the perspective of the commons.

 

How can we measure the effects of the election programmes of our political parties? Traditionally, it is the CPB that calculates the effects of all ideas and wishes. But are the models that CPB uses still up to date?

 

We focused our last meetup on the ecosystem of the Fairbnb platform. In this session, we will use again the Platform Design Toolkit to explore the motivations of the different stakeholders and how can we achieve them through partnerships with public and private actors.

 

During the first meeting of the Open Planbureau multiple topics were discussed. Are the current economic planning models suficient to predict our complex future? What is the role of the commons in this field? During the second meeting we will look closer at instruments that can help us shape a alternative planning agency.

 

FairBnB session #4. In this session we will speak about these partnerships and how we will work with them. In addition, we will also brainstorm about the ownership and voting models for the local cooperatives and their integration into a joined platform.

 

On Wednesday 23 November, the first meeting of the Dutch Open Planbureau was held. On the Dutch version of this page, you can read an interview with Socrates Schouten, who is (together with Marleen Stikker), the initiator of Open Planbureau.

 

It’s design time! This 3rd meetup of FairBnB will have a practical approach, with two parallel workshops on cooperative governance and design of the accommodation sharing platform. FairBnB is a movement that seeks to encourage vacation rentals that comply with the principles of a fair, non-extractive and collaborative economy.

 

Do you feel comfortable with complexity, statistics and visualisation? And you the feel the need of a new new perspective on economic systems and social development?

 

Do you feel comfortable with complexity, statistics and visualisation? And do you the feel the need of a new perspective on economic systems and social development?

 

In our intitiative called the Open Planning Bureau, the commons play a central role: the collaborative model to manage cities, land and data.

 

FairBnB is a movement that seeks to encourage vacation rentals that comply with the principles of a fair, non-extractive and collaborative economy.

 

FairBnB is a movement that seeks to encourage vacation rentals that comply with the principles of a fair, non-extractive and collaborative economy. Come and help us to create the first local FairBnB platform.

 

How to create an online accommodation sharing community, of which the members trust each other, without massively exposing their private data?

 

Going from poor-to-poor towards peer-to-peer: how do we get to an open, sustainable and purpose economy?

 

On March 25th, 2013, Ravi Sundaram visited Waag to give a lecture about the media boom in India and to visit old friends.

 

At the end of 2006, Waag published a book called 'In the Shade of the Commons' as a part of the project 'Towards a Culture of Open Networks'.