PLATFORM STRUCTURE - Designing the Urban Commons

Our cities today
are physical expressions
of the extreme disregard
the current political
and economic system
has for our communities
and our planet.
Common Economy Generator
aims to support
those initiatives that
are generating positive and
inspiring transformations
from within the fabric
of our territories
and planting the seeds
for the city of the future.
It is designed to:
•facilitate communication
between existing
Commons groups
so they can exchange
information, skills,
resources and funds
COMMONS ECONOMY GENERATOR
Common Economy Generator
is a digital platform
to facilitate the formation
of Commons-based economies.
COMMUNITY
STEWARDSHIP
PROTECTION
ITERATION
PRINCIPLE
USE VALUE
The platform does not belong to an external
entity. It is an entity in itself that is
co-managed by it’s members.
Each Commons group is a voting member. A group to
become a member must be following to some degree
commons principles.
MEMBERSHIP
The platform is protected as a Commons
Member Groups when joining commit to adhere to the
principles of the platform in co-managing and using
it. If a member group does not respect them,
membership is removed.
AGREEMENT
Member groups can make proposals on a common proposal
board where other Member Groups can show their
support.
The platform is developed over time according
to the needs of it’s members.
The exchange value of resources and skills is
based on the use value for the members of the
platform and not by external value systems.
For resources that are scarce member groups can choose
to exchange resources and skills using two currencies:
time or commons coin.
PRACTICES
STRUCTURED
A COMMONS IS
COLLECTION
A SELF ORGANISING SYSTEM COMPOSED
OF
A RESOURCE, A COMMUNITY OF
INFORMATION
AND A SERIES OF AGREED PRACTICES
ON ALL THE
ON HOW THE COMMONS IS CO-ORGANISED
COMMONS
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PROPOSALS
BOARD
COMMUNITY
MECHANISM
CURRENCIES
RECIPROCITY
the
When resources and skills are abundant they are added
for free to a common pool. Groups can also contribute
to the Common pool with some of the currency they
accumulate in exchanging resources and skills.
COMMON POOL
OF RESOURCES
CONSENSUS
The platform aims to not privilege one group
over the other, but to consider ways to
support the needs of all the member groups.
Iterative consensus decision making processes are
used to develop proposals and co-budgeting is used to
allocate resources.
ONLINE DECISION
MAKING PROCESS
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Member groups understand themselves as part of
a larger whole.
Part of the resources can be sourced from and
allocated to affinity groups that are not members of
the platform or commons.
REDISTRIBUTION
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P
IM
PRACTICES
THE TERRITORY CAN BE SEEN AS THE
OVERLAPPING OF VARIOUS COMMONS
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Who uses the platform contributes to
platform and in supporting other groups.
GROUPS
SECTIONS
FOR EACHRESOURCE
INDIVIDUAL
COMMONS
GROUP
SECTIONS
FOR EACH
INDIVIDUAL
COMMONS
GROUP
P
STRUCTURED
COLLECTION
OF
INFORMATION
ON ALL THE
COMMONS
GROUPS
•refer to a territory
whose limits are defined by
the possibility of exchanging
without intermediaries
other then the platform itself
and human interaction
•be a Commons in itself:
once joined
a group becomes
an active participant
in it’s co-management
We are experiencing
an outburst
of inspiring
and creative
experimentations
in new forms of organising,
living, working,
producing and exchanging,
that are redefining
the way people
relate to one another
and to their environment.
These alternative structures,
based on principles of
self-management,
direct democracy,
self-sufficiency
and de-growth,
can be considered
the transformative cells
of a radically new society.
However,
projects often
remain invisible and hidden
not only to the great majority
of us but also to each other,
as by their very nature
they tend to be
local and autonomous,
scattered and disconnected.
Common Economy Generator
is a tool
to facilitate existing groups
to connect
and new groups
to form
so that
new solidarity economies
can unfold
and shape
the fabric of our territories.
PARTICIPATE
•allow non-Commons groups
and individuals
to contribute and benefit
from Commons based economies
EXCHANGE
•build a common pool
of information, skills,
resources and funds
to share
between existing
and new Commons groups
SHARE
•provide information,
skills,resources and funds
for new Commons groups to form
PUBLISHING
ACCOUNT
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COMMONING
Use value
Stewardship
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Protection
Reciprocity
Consensus
Iteration
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PROPOSALS
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POOL
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STEWARDSHIP
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PROTECTION
SYNTHESISING
PROCESS
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SKILLS
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CURRENCY
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PROCESS
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RESOURCES
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PROCESS
CONSENSUS
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USE VALUE
WIKI
CONSENSUS
DECISION
MAKING
VOTING
ACCOUNT
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COBUDGETING
IF ALLOCATED
RECEIVES
SKILLS FOR FREE
IF ALLOCATED
RECEIVES
RESOURCES FOR FREE
IF ALLOCATED RECEIVES CURRENCY,
RESOURCES AND/OR SKILLS FOR FREE
PROVIDE
SKILL FOR
CURRENCY
IF ALLOCATED
RECEIVES CURRENCY
EXCHANGE OF
RESOURCE FOR
CURRENCY
CURRENCY
ACCOUNT
RECEIVE
SKILL FOR
CURRENCY
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DONATE CURRENCY
TO COMMON POOL
PLATFORM STRUCTURE
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UBUNTU
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RECIPROCITY
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ITERATION
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RESOURCES
OFFERED
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receive currency
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DONATE CURRENCY
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