The commons are an institutional construction that guarantee access to shared resources, their governance and their reproduction over the long-term. They have re-emerged in Europe as an alternative mode of management to exclusive State or private ownership, providing a promising outlook for preserving the liveability of the planet and moving towards greater ecological justice. Designers are playing their part by producing new knowledge commons to move towards more social and spatial justice, but also by producing new types of diplomacy and facilitating the emergence of rights and responsibilities.
Speech by Simon Kofe, Minister of Justice, Communication and Foreign Affairs of Tuvalu, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) on 4 November 2021
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Société d’Objets Cartographiques & Atelier shaā, 2021-2022
Inspired by the thinking of French philosopher Bruno Latour, this spatial arrangement presented to the Fondation Luma as part of the Où Atterrir? project Les nouveaux cahiers de doléances à Arles, experiments with a methodology for describing territories with citizen-experts.
Faire resplendir l’Europe, Ocean Viking, 7 June 2024, Navire Avenir
Rescue vessel, sea-going casualty department, collective living space, the Avenir is a manifesto project for a rescue and healthcare ship that is part of an initiative led by the Pôle d’exploration des ressources urbaines (PEROU) with UNESCO.
Sylvia Fredriksson
A graduate of the Ensaama-Olivier de Serres and Gobelins Paris who specialised in hypermedia at the University of Paris 8, Sylvia Fredriksson is
a designer and lecturer-researcher at ESAD Orléans. Addressing design, technology
and politics, her work questions the commons with the aim of rebuilding critical trajectories. Citizens’ appropriation of technologies and digital technology in particular is seen as a lever for social emancipation. Between 2016 and 2018, with the research department at the Cité du design, she led the "Design des Instances" programme and organised the L’Expérience Tiers-Lieux, exhibition, both
of which were dedicated to configurations of democratic spaces. She is also a co-founder of the Coopérative des Milieux and develops popular survey practices.