Festival of Commoning take two
Last week was the second Festival of Commoning . It was great last year, and this year we were back in Stroud for a bigger event (albeit one that was a bit less interactive). This year was also dual track, which meant Decisions as to what sessions to go to... What follows are my fairly rough and possibly inaccurate notes of what struck me as most interesting in the sessions I attended. This time we didn't really talk about why we were all there - what commoning was all about. This meant that Saturday night's stand-up comedians were baffled, and the audience contributions probably left things even more unclear. "Not anarchists, but anarchist inclusive" is perhaps as good as it got. I'm minded to think it's great not to have too specific a definition, when there's some feeling of a movement starting or coalescing; but a complete absence of clarity wasn't helpful for some of the new folks. I had to look back at what I wrote last year : What is a common...