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Here we have a home page of the wiki developed by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich, for their pattern language of commoning.

Other pages from that site are also forked into this one. Bollier & Helfrich wiki

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# A framework for understanding commons & commoning

developed in 2017 by

Silke Helfrich is an uninstitutionalized academic and independent activist.

David Bollier is a commons activist, scholar, author and blogger.

Working Together Teamwork Puzzle Concept. source

Commons & Commoning are World-Making in a Pluriverse, complex adaptive processes, that consist of a simple symbiotic triade: the social section (commoning), the institutional and organizational section (peer governance) and the economic section (provisioning).

Each section has multiple dimensions, which are listed below. It is important to understand, that these sections don't describe something different. They rather describe the same - aspects of commons & commoning - just seen through different lens depending on the section's focus. There is therefore an overlap and correspondence among the dimensions (let's call them patterns) on each list.

Note that the lists do not assert universal, ahistorical principles of commons, but rather recurrent, general *patterns* of commoning that vary widely. (Foto Wikimedia Commons

# The triad of commoning - A pattern language

The Framework can be used as analytical tool for studying the commons. Here is why and how: Using the Triad of Commoning as Analytical Tool

# Ontological ground, political culture

These sections extend the scope of the pattern language - 'the triad of commoning' - but are not rendered as patterns. Thus in a sense the pattern language might be regarded as having five divisions. The book, *Free, fair and alive - The resurgent power of the commons*, contains this material, with 'Ontological ground' preceding the triad, and 'Growing the commons' following. Bollier & Helfrich

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