Contemporary Commoning
This two-year artistic research project, which started in the spring of 2020, investigates the potential relations between the arts and the commons. It is grounded in Amsterdam's Zeeburgereiland, a newly developed neighborhood on an island at the city's eastern fringes, where the project's researchers will collaborate.
Researchers Ronald Rietveld (RAAAF), Socrates Schouten (Waag) and Suzanna Tomor (University of Amsterdam) will examine the many ways in which 'commoning' can contribute to new forms of public space, in the physical as well as the digital realm. It takes the potential contribution of design and art in these processes of 'commoning' as the main point of departure.
The project is developed in collaboration with Jeroen Boomgaard of the Research Institute for Art and Public Space of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Casco Art Institute and the Nautilus housing community at Zeeburgereiland. By having researchers from different disciplines working closely together, the project seeks to develop a multifaceted toolkit with 'recipes for the commons'.