Join our online workshop for POLLEN22
Future Natures
Future Natures
Future Natures explores the global terrain and emergent ecologies of commoning and enclosure, through stories, arts and research.
The Commons
Explore ideas, stories and learning from the commons and commoning around the world.
Comic: Future Natures
Future Natures
Cultivating the garden of your mind
Anoushka Zoob Carter
Bioleft: open seeds
Future Natures
Trespass, Commons and the Right to Roam
Anoushka Zoob Carter
In this podcast episode, Nick Hayes challenges the inequalities of land ownership and property rights and discusses the Right to Roam movement in the UK.
Treating food as commons, not commodities
Anoushka Zoob Carter
Jose Luis Vivero Pol explores new ways of democratising the governance of food systems and how (re)commoning food in society requires challenging dominant norms that value food as a commodity.
Course: Pathways to Sustainability
Nathan Oxley
Free online course that introduces critical ideas about sustainability, including access to and use of ‘nature’ and ‘natural resources’.
Seeing Pastoralism
Nathan Oxley
An online exhibition about pastoralists and their relationship to commons, as they face many different uncertainties.
On the Promise of the Commons
Anoushka Zoob Carter
In this podcast episode, Vandana Shiva tells the story of historical struggle against colonialism and neoliberal capitalism that involves the commodification of seeds. She explains how re-commoning of seeds is a defence of a shared ecological and human diversity.
Comic: The Killing Famine
Future Natures
Comic: Weird Ecologies
Future Natures
‘Sedentist’ bias and the pastoral commons
Future Natures
Pastoralists are often marginalised from common land and resources, even by policies that claim to help them. Policies are based on a bias towards fixed, formalised land ownership.
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An online, ‘asynchronous’ workshop, with pre-recorded talks, co-hosted by Future Natures for the POLLEN 2022/3 conference. Topics include commoning and enclosures, ‘weird ecologies’ and beyond-human ecologies. Talks are open access but to join the discussion, you will need to set up a free profile.