Festival of Commons – Saturday 7 March 2020
Cissie Gool House – 95 Mountain Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town

The seminar will explore the following questions:

  • How to build participation, sense of belonging and ownership in our activities?
  • What can we learn and share from our experiences?
  • How can we strengthen the links between our experiences?
  • How we can build together a new vision for a city framed as a Commons

10:00 Welcome
Heinrich Böll Foundation
CAPP Civic Action for Public Participation
Cissie Gool House

10:30 Silke Helfrich, co-author of “Free, Fair, and Alive The Insurgent Power of the Commons“

  • Relationalize Proprety
  • State power and Commoning
  • Beyond Reform or Revolution
  • The power of Commoning

11:00 BLOCK ONE

  • Philippi Horticultural Area
  • Two Rivers Urban Park
  • Princess Vlei

12:30 BLOCK TWO
Cissie Gool House + Monitors

13:00 LUCH

14:00 Rojava democratic experiment

14:30 BLOCK THREE

  • Peace Gardens in Bonteheuwel, Building community gardens
  • Bo Kaap Bo Kaap – Threatened community
  • Woodstock – Salt River – Citizen Lab

15:30 PAPER WALL + group work activities

16:15 Recap of the issues, questions, words, concept

16:30 Conclusion: How wee continue in the future?

17:00 Closure

Farewell Commoning Fellow – Silke Helfrich
Festival of Commons 7 March 2020 – CGH