Today excited to join CitizenLab's "Democracy as commons: European landscape of new forms of citizens co-creation and participation" to speak about co-creation, sensemaking, new collaborative forms of organising. Key question: what is the culture necessary for "doing democracy?"

Thread: 1st Stavros Stavrides speaking about “commoning as a practice” +an ever expanding network of processes by which we assign meaning to our lives. We must connect commoning to self-management and mutual help (ayuda mutua, mutirao, Ubuntu) - exchange + sharing resources, care

Urban commoning as a way of reclaiming the city as commons. Reclaiming with the power of collective creativity, “space activated as a source of social potentialities” reminds me of @CIVIC_SQUARE @ImmyKaur @AlastairParvin “insurgent public spaces, territoralities of resistance”

Then a great presentation from @louise_a on systems change - “the emergence of a new pattern of organisation or system structure”, both process and outcome, needed at all levels - physical down to mindsets to feelings. Systems Change approach can enable a better analysis ...

And support strategic decision making, and support the design and approach of the interventions one might take. Leaving us with the question “where do you most want to be living change?”