How ECF's work relates to the plans of the European Commission as announced in the State of the Union Address 2017.
Read MoreCO–MAKING THE CITY: Ideas from the Innovative City Development meeting
We need to co-make our cities together: institutions collaborating with local people. This report presents the outcome of the Innovative City development meeting in Madrid in March 2017.
Read MoreFeatured People: #RDgrantee Silvia Nanclares
Throughout our Featured People, we are very happy to share highlights on the works of former Idea Camp participants, showing the depth and breadth of our grantees’ networks. In this feature, we talk to Silvia Nanclares, who participated to the Idea Camp in 2015 and received an R&D grant to work on her idea Caring IN the city.
Read MoreInstagram Takeover: Ana Gonçalves
R&D grantee Ana Gonçalves, project leader of The Ageless City: Intergenerational Spaces for Culturally Diverse Neighborhoods, is taking over ECF's Instagram account between 8 and 16 July.
Read MoreReport: Boekmanlezing 2016
On 23 June 2016, we have been part of the Boekmanlezing 2016 on the "Cultural Dimension in the City of the Future", a debate and lecture with Hans Mommaas, Karolina Spaic (ZID Theater), Kristian Koreman (Bureau ZUS, Zones Urbaines Sensibles) and Kajsa Ollongren (alderman Amsterdam Municipality, a.o. for Economy and Culture). Read the report (in Dutch).
Read MoreBuild the City Magazine: a collection of evidence-based practices
ECF initiated Build the City to highlight innovative civil-public partnerships in broader Europe that have solved urban challenges. The 26 practices highlighted in this publication are civil-public partnerships based on principles of the commons, i.e. enabling citizens and governments to share power, co-design and co-shape legislation, management or collective action for the common good. Download a copy of the Build the City Magazine and join the conversation on ECF Labs.
Read MoreWhen commoning strategies travel by Jayne Ifekwunigwe →
Commoning strategies are often improvised even in the liminal spaces that emerge in the cracks of Fortress Europe, says urban anthropologist Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe. In a text based on her September 2015 talk at the ECF's annual Idea Camp, Ifekwunigwe calls for a new commons that embraces both the mobile and the settled.
Read MoreNew models of governance of culture by Katarina Pavić →
Bottom-up cooperation between the independent cultural sector and domestic and European institutions can lead to both the decentralisation of cultural production and the democratisation of culture. So says Katarina Pavić of the Croatian cultural hub organisation Culture 2 Commons.
Read MoreA rough guide to the commons by Charlie Tims →
There are a raft of major challenges that complicate the creation of the commons today. The researcher and writer Charlie Tims considers some of the most pressing of these challenges – in combination with landmark efforts to regain control over domestic and international modes of governance, as well as to reclaim resources, public space and housing. The following text is based on his September 2015 talk at the ECF's annual Idea Camp.
Read MoreCulture WITH people, not just FOR people! by Agnieszka Wiśniewska →
Received notions of artistic and social practices belonging to separate spheres of society are fading away, writes Agnieszka Wiśniewska of Krytyka Polityczna (Poland). The commons is where cultural and social activists meet with the broader public and, together, create a genuinely participatory culture.
Read MoreCulture and the Commons: Focal Point on Eurozine →
We are thrilled to start a new partnership with Eurozine as part of our Connected Action for the Commons programme. Drawing on our common affinities, we launch a new focal point exploring the prospects for a commons where cultural and social activists meet with a broader public to create new ways of living together.
Read MoreBuild the City Towards a Practice-Based Manifesto
On 25 February, we have launched our Build the City, Towards a Practice-Based Manifesto
during our Co-creating the City event at Pakhuis de Zwijger. Download your copy now and join the conversation on our dedicated Lab.