Further business creep on the commons. "The Common Good Fund"
"In a "banking" type of environment, a classroom is structured such that the primary duty of students is to remember and accurately recall the information provided by the instructor.
It is a choice of the capitalist default model, or what we want the world to look like and transforming how we think
This is what journalism should look like
Understanding power lll
for the common good
The Tardis Project, will consist of the building of a Dr Who type police box. (Peace Box) In it will be installed a variety of activities that will range from performance, music, arts, as well as (Low voltage) electronic and computer projects that will make noise and light.
A selection of videos from the collection.
Harnessing Technology for the public commons
Exploitation dignity centralized control democratic decision making commodifcation sacredness privatization the global commons corporatization collective responsibility shareholders stakeholders output throughput disposable renewable mechanistic models organic models
information wisdom productivity prosperity consumers citizens spectator participant global economy local economies extraction restoration monoculture diversity
transferrable wealth replenishable wealth property ecosystem alienation from nature earth centered values absentee landlordism stewardship ecological illiteracy biocentrism proxy decision making real democracy short term gain sustainability narrow economic indicators full cost accounting artifcial scarcity abundance inequitable distribution economic justice corporate rule global justice empire community The System systemic change
From: Journal of Aesthetics & Protest
Understanding where we’re at,
reflect on where we have been
and imagining where we need to go
We are interested in
EDUCATION
ECONOMICS/VALUE
LIBRARIES/HISTORY
SOLIDARITY/COMMONGROUND
POLITICAL AGENCY
PRAGMATISM
PLACE BASED LEARNING
DOCUMENTATION/RESEARCH
PARTICIPATION/ALTERNATIVES
LAND /EARTH
COMMONS/COMMON GOOD FUND
SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
ALF SMART
Helping to open the source to resources that have been secreted and lost from view
by the rentier, landlords and the state