Presentation of Shareable's book 'Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons' @Supermarkt, Berlin on 13th of April 2018 during the Event "Scaling Sharing Cities: Build Ecosystems for the Commons". Find more about the book http://sharingcities.net

2. Shareable
• Shareable is a nonprofit media
outlet and action network that
empowers people to share for
a more resilient, equitable, and
joyful world.
• Its mission is to inspire social
change by publishing stories,
analysis, and tools in
collaboration with our global
partners.

3. The Rise of
Sharing Cities

4. Commons /
Commoning
✓A group of people, a resource, and
a governance system to manage
that resource.
✓A social system / a practice for the
long-term care and regeneration
of resources that preserves shared
values and community identity.
✓Resource: Natural, Digital, Urban,
etc.

5. Commons
MarketGov’t

6. Commons
MarketGov’t
TODAY

7. Commons
MarketGov’t
TOMORROW

21. Smart Citizen Toolkit

23. Over 3 Mil Pounds
raised for 300 projects

25. Over 1,500 Cities!

26. Eleven principles
for sharing cities

27. Impact Through
Replication, Not
Just Scale
• Systematically encourage the
documentation of local solutions so
they can be adapted and replicated in
other places.
• This process requires minimal
technology and administrative
investment.
• Both scale and replication strategies
should be pursued to achieve dramatic
impact.

28. Build and
Fight
• Sharing Cities must seize the
immediately available opportunities for
commons development.
• Many commons projects need little if
any funding or permission to start.
• While political change is necessary, it’s
unwise to depend solely on or wait
passively for it.
• The urban commons need to be fought
for politically too, and that takes long-
term vision and commitment.

29. and more…
• Solidarity
• Distributed architecture
• Private sufficiency, civic abundance
• Common needs ,co-designed solutions
• Transformation over transaction
• Cross-sector collaboration, hybrid solutions
• Competitive advantage through quality of
life, security and distinctiveness
• Local control, global cooperation
• System thinking, empathy

30. Mapping is…
•Never neutral
•Performative
This implies…
•Participation
•Reusable/adaptable
towards plurality
MAPPING

31. And in
Berlin?
• Many commons-based initiatives but no
common discourse/narrative
• Existing mappings:
• 2016 mapping of sharing economy in Berlin
• Map of community gardens
• http://berlin.imwandel.net/
• No interest at (previous) Senat level for
commons-based oriented sharing
• Platform Coop community started by
Thomas Dönnebrink & Ela Kagel

32. And in
Berlin?
Where to start?
➢ Opportunities?
• Commons-oriented use of
Tempelhofer Feld?
• Reclaiming share of top-level
domain: .berlin
• Add yours!
➢ Strategic steps?
• Translation of book in German
• Participatory mapping?
• Case studies: Sharing City Berlin
book adaptation?
• Add yours!

33. Get the book!
tiny.cc/sharingcities
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