Explore stories, ideas and experiences on enclosures, commoning and ecologies. Use the filters to browse by theme and type of content.
Publications
Comic: Future Natures
Future Natures
Introductory comic from Future Natures about modern crises and the radical potential of commoning.
Stories
Seeding the commons in Argentina
Anoushka Zoob Carter
Podcast episode with Almendra Cremaschi of Bioleft, a seed commoning initiative based in Argentina.
Ideas
Unsettling enclosures
Anoushka Zoob Carter
Anoushka Zoob Carter asks what the unsettling of enclosures looks like on the land in three different contexts.
Ideas
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.
Ideas
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.
Learning
Food that’s not for sale
Anoushka Zoob Carter
A conversation with Sam Bliss on the practices that can decommodify food and ‘re-common’ the food system.
Ideas
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.
Learning
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.
From the Network
Geothermal meets pastoral livelihoods in Kenya
Jeremy Lind
Learning
Masters in Commons Administration: new taster course in 2023
Future Natures
Details of a three-day taster course on the commons, to be held in January 2023 in North-West England.
Stories
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…
Toolbox
How to make a mini-zine
Nathan Oxley
This handy guide provides a quick and easy way to make your own mini-zine.
Stories
Call for aid: Cooperation Jackson and the city’s urgent water crisis
Future Natures
As their city confronts a severe water crisis due to infrastructural collapse, Cooperation Jackson has issued an urgent fundraising appeal for their autonomous relief effort.
Ideas
Hopping over the fence
Nathan Oxley
How mass trespassers in England are venturing on to fenced-off lands to reconnect with lost commons.
Ideas
Join our online workshop for POLLEN22
Future Natures
Ideas
Cultivating the garden of your mind
Anoushka Zoob Carter
From the Network
Bioleft: open seeds
Future Natures
Bioleft is a community that builds an open seed exchange and breeding network.
Ideas
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.
Ideas
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.
Learning
Course: Pathways to Sustainability
Nathan Oxley
Stories
Seeing Pastoralism
Nathan Oxley
An online exhibition about pastoralists and their relationship to commons, as they face many different uncertainties.
Ideas
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.
Stories
Comic: The Killing Famine
Future Natures
Stories
Comic: Weird Ecologies
Future Natures
Ideas
‘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.