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Social commoning as a way to transition towards alternative systems by design

Schaeper, Julia; (2022) Social commoning as a way to transition towards alternative systems by design. In: DRS2022: BILBAO. Design Research Society Green open access

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Abstract

Increased interest in systemic design approaches and their impact on climate and societal crises make revisiting the theories of the commons and their applicability to system transitions a timely endeavour. By examining a case study of a marine protected area in the South African ocean, the paper explores how a commoning practice could be applied more intentionally in system design to increase cooperation amongst system actors and apply a multispecies - as opposed to human-centred - perspective to the management of natural, social, and immaterial resources. By tracing the historical understandings of the commons, the study explores how Ostrom’s design principles could be applied as a set of heuristics to help system actors thrive in improved cohabitation. Thus, the paper draws on a working hypothesis of how economic and complexity theory could be integrated with systems thinking to create the conditions for increased stakeholder cooperation and alternative systems by design.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Social commoning as a way to transition towards alternative systems by design
Event: DRS2022: Bilbao
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.21606/drs.2022.511
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.511
Language: English
Additional information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Keywords: Commons, systemic design, beyond-human-centred design, complex systems
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189075
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