In June 2019, Common(s)Lab was invited by the Rovereto-based design practice Brave New Alps to join a 5 days get-together of artists, designers and economic geographers working with community and diverse economies in their practices as researchers and creative practitioners. The event was organised by Bianca Elzenbaumer as part of her Marie Sklodowska-Curie research project she is currently developing in Bolzano, hosted by the EURAC Research centre. Continue reading
The 8th biannual Nordic Design Research Society (Nordes) conference is going to take place at Aalto University, Finland between 2–4 June 2019. In times of a world-wide crisis of care in its many dimensions, the conference poses the timely, and also, self-critical question ‘who cares?’, well worth exploring in design research and beyond: Continue reading
At the end of last year, we initiated a new project called Common{s}Lab in Schillerkiez, a neighbourhood in Berlin-Neukölln near Tempelhofer Feld. With this project, we aim to co-develop a platform for action and research around the urban commons, diverse economies, and sharing practices in neighbourhoods. Continue reading
An interdisciplinary conference of interest entitled ‘Social Solidarity Economies & the Commons: Envisioning sustainable and post-capitalist futures’ will be taking place in Lisbon, Portugal between Nov 21-23rd 2018. Continue reading
End of June 2017, a 5-day gathering of alternative movements called MOVE UTOPIA took place for the first time on Kulturkosmos Müritz, a festival site in rural Eastern Germany. The main aim of the get-together is to join forces with each other in the struggle for similar goals: “a world according to needs and abilities” that leaves the current capitalist system and market logic behind. Continue reading
On 19th June 2017, at the Institute of Sustainable Management, the University of Ulm in southern Germany, there is one day interdisciplinary Sustainable Fashion Consumption Symposium aiming ‘to bridge the gap between the niche of sustainable fashion and everyday fashion consumption’. Continue reading
AoA and all of our book’s contributors were invited to curate the program of the closing night of an international theatre festival in Riga, Homo Novus, together with the organisation Cape Farewell. The festival ran throughout fall between 9.9.-12.11.2016. Continue reading
As our first project, AoA independently published the co-edited book ‘Agents of Alternatives – Re-designing Our Realities’ in 2015; an open book exploring the visions, actions, tools and impacts of change agents, thinkers and ‘happeners’ (those who make things happen!). It shows the creative processes and tools for designing positive societal transitions. These transitions are revealed by showing the new hybrid relationships being forged between alternative approaches to learning, living, making, socialising, thinking and working. Continue reading