Comic: Future Natures
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Explore stories, ideas and experiences on enclosures, commoning and ecologies. Use the filters to browse by theme and type of content.
Climate uncertainty and the arts
Future Natures
Jo Walton discusses how art, games and other creativity can help to open up alternative futures.
Comic: People Power – Smart Local Energy Systems
Future Natures
A comic about how to involve people in energy systems at a local level, inspired by commons-based approaches.
More than a pub: the story of The Bevy
Future Natures
Online archive: East London Big Flame
Nathan Oxley
Explore an online archive of documents from political activism in London in the 1970s and 1980s.
Recommended podcast: Changing Currents
Nathan Oxley
This podcast from Arts Catalyst brings together artists, growers, community groups and researchers working on different initiatives in South Yorkshire.
To think, feel and see otherwise: a report and a mini-zine from POLLEN23
Nathan Oxley
Photo story: Views of Mpox in Nigeria
Future Natures
Comic: Mpox in Nigeria – lessons from diverse experiences
Future Natures
My body as food, my food as neighbour
Future Natures
Starting from the ecologies and relationships involved in foraging, Elaina Weber discusses how you might see your food as community, and yourself as ‘future food’.
Mapping community gardens in the UK
Nathan Oxley
The organisation Sustain provides a map of community gardens around the UK, and organises a weekend of action where gardens invite people in to take part.
Naming, unnaming and commons
Nathan Oxley
Names can be used to hurt and heal. What can ‘unnaming’ do for people’s relationships to the other creatures around them?
A Portuguese village on the front line of the ‘energy transition’
Future Natures
Covas de Barroso is facing the threat of an open-cast lithium mine, with just 10 days to respond to a public consultation.
Comic: Seeing Conflict at the Margins
Jeremy Lind
A comic explores views of resource conflicts from the perspectives of rural people in Kenya and Madagascar, shared with the help of participatory video methods.
Film ‘Finite’ documents community resistance against mines
Nathan Oxley
Seeding the commons in Argentina
Anoushka Zoob Carter
Unsettling enclosures
Anoushka Zoob Carter
Anoushka Zoob Carter asks what the unsettling of enclosures looks like on the land in three different contexts.
Video: JT Roane on ‘Dark Agoras’ in Philadelphia
Future Natures
Full video of JT Roane’s talk about Black urban placemaking in twentieth-century Philadelphia.
How could land in England be reformed for the commons?
Future Natures
Elise Wach explores the proposals from various social movements for changing how England’s rural spaces are governed.
Food that’s not for sale
Anoushka Zoob Carter
Video: Crisis, development & ecologies of the new commons
Future Natures
Watch a discussion about commoning and responses to crisis, drawing on examples from Argentina and the UK.
Commoning in refugee camps: In conversation with Yafa el Masri
Anoushka Zoob Carter
In this audio interview, Future Natures sits down with Yafa El Masri to discuss commoning and the commons in refugee camps.
Geothermal meets pastoral livelihoods in Kenya
Jeremy Lind
Masters in Commons Administration: new taster course in 2023
Future Natures
Encountering the commons in The Pluriverse of Eco-social Justice
Anoushka Zoob Carter
The history of enclosure in Portugal can be found in the art world and forest worlds. Connecting the two are ongoing struggles to recommon these spaces…
How to make a mini-zine
Nathan Oxley
This handy guide provides a quick and easy way to make your own mini-zine.
Call for aid: Cooperation Jackson and the city’s urgent water crisis
Future Natures
Hopping over the fence
Nathan Oxley
Radical Epistemologies and Future Natures – video recordings
Future Natures
Cultivating the garden of your mind
Anoushka Zoob Carter
Podcast episode with Ron Finley about enclosure in cities and the struggle to build an urban food commons against food poverty.
Bioleft: open seeds
Future Natures
Bioleft is a community that builds an open seed exchange and breeding network.
Trespass, Commons and the Right to Roam
Anoushka Zoob Carter
Treating food as commons, not commodities
Anoushka Zoob Carter
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 about colonisation, mining and conservation in Madagascar, drawing on the history of enclosures of common grazing lands and forests.
Comic: Weird Ecologies
Future Natures
‘Sedentist’ bias and the pastoral commons
Future Natures