Do you want to learn more about the commons? Serious gaming is a great way to do so! The outcome of our research in the Gaming for the commons project is here: check out the online serious games repository for getting familiar with the commons.

In this article, we analyse how water-related serious games can be described according to its application during each Design Thinking phase (discovery, definition, development and delivery).

What factors come into play when designing a city or new urban development? Which parties are involved? Can we use games to illuminate the processes that lead to our city looking, feeling and sounding like it does?

Can we have in-depth discussions about our political and economic system by rolling the dice? Can we reclaim the city while playing? Is it possible to shape our utopias using colourful play-dough?

The Chamber of Commons made its first appearance at the Embassy of Health of the Dutch Design Week 2019. We explored new forms of cooperation to tackle healthcare challenges and had many passionate conversations.

Today’s healthcare challenges require more than ever new forms of cooperation and commons-based approaches. Do you have a cool initiative? Submit it before September 17 and we'll bring it to the Dutch Design Week 2019!

What exactly are data commons? What kind of applications do they appear in? And who are the parties involved in the research and development of successful urban solutions?

In the third Common Play With Us event, we aimed to discover the potential of urban games to explore and transform the city.

Can games help us achieve a more social and collaborative society? In our new Common play with us series, we aim to learn all about games, and team up to develop new ones.

Part 1 of this article discussed the status quo of the global landscape, and revealed two main lessons: First, ownership and use of land need to be seen as separate entities, independent of its market value.

For the DSI4EU project, we researched large community of DSI projects that seek to tackle environmental issues using digital technologies.

Exciting examples of sustainable landscape management occur when governments, private organisations and civil society organisations work together to establish and finance new courses of action. There is a great flurry of new arrangements observing to these ‘landscape commons’.

This discussion revisits the commons perspective on land ownership and use, with the community – for example in CSA, cooperatives, networks or land trusts – as a collective land holding construct offering reliable long-term solutions.

Rising prices intensify the use of land, which in turn puts pressure on the soil and on the landscape. A conversation about new forms of land ownership with two senior officials of Kadaster, the Dutch land registrar.

From dusty droughts to pouring rains: our climate is changing, and we need to develop a different relationship with the natural commons. “Politics of Nature” is a method, a game with which a stronger democratic legitimacy can be created in which not only people, but also plants, animals and buildings can raise their voices.

And if not blockchain, what other options could we imagine to restore trust and design participatory models in the food system?