Commons, the relational and affect: ​Discussion with David Bollier and Commons Convergence Group

This talk is organised by de Appel in collaboration with Schumacher Action Labs in the frame of Lumbung Practice and hosted by OT301’s Ventilator Cinema. We've invited David Bollier for a talk and conversation in the context of the Lumbung Practice programme, where participating collectives from de Appel Curatorial Programme, Gudskul Collective Practice, and Sandberg Temporary Master learn about lumbung, self-organization, and sociopolitical artistic and curatorial practice. They also develop alternative art institutions and economies for the future.

David Bollier (US) is an author, activist and independent scholar who has studied the commons for nearly twenty years. Through his blog, Bollier.org, and his work with an array of international commoners, Bollier’s work focuses especially on relational commons, law and policy; ecological governance; tech and copyright issues; and inter-commoning. He has written or edited seven books on the commons, including Free, Fair and Alive (2019) together with Silke Helfrich, Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons (2014); Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Commons (2013), co-authored with Burns Weston; and an anthology of essays, The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State (2012), co-edited with Silke Helfrich.

More about the discussion and the other participants will be announced soon. Please note that this talk takes place in OT301's Ventilator Cinema (Overtoom 301, Amsterdam), and not at de Appel!