Penny Travlou, University of Edinburgh & P2P Foundation Co-authored by unMonastery Athens Team (Jeffrey Andreoni, Nottingham Trent University and unMonastery; Katalin Hausel; Penny Travlou)

1. The Confluence of Urban Commoning:
Making Common Space for Nomad
Citizenship
Presented by
Penny Travlou
(University of Edinburgh/unMonastery/P2P
Foundation/OuiShare UK/)
Co-authored by
unMonastery Athens Team
(Jeff Andreoni, Katalin Hausel, Penny Travlou)

4. Shared spaces
Solidarity
networks
Urban commoning
Nomad
citizens

6. African Collective Kitchen Team
• unMonastery Athens Team (Jeff, Penny,
Katalin, Lauren, David, Luisa and Juliana)
• Nosotros Social Centre (Thanassis, Christos,
Shreik, Mageb and Omar)
• African United Women Organisation (Addis,
Viki, Esther, Lauretta)
• Senait’s Pop-Up Kitchen (Senait)
• Individuals (Sara)

8. Nosotros is a non-profit pure democratic place independent of any specific political
ideologies, hierarchies and written enactments. It is the home base where our thoughts are
linked with our behaviour and contacts. It also serves as a means for the free and creative
individual in all of us to emerge. Assignment of duties is crossed out and replaced by the
resumption of personal responsibilities, initiatives and actions,so that the
consistency towards the commitments becomes a matter of everybody’s consciousness.
The free social centre Nosotros was set up experimentally in June 2005 . It was the result of
a series of quests to find an alternative meeting place, where people will be free from
restrains of ideological cliches and doctrines and therefore create their individual path in
life.

10. Urban Commons - Keywords
• Collaboration
• Trust (building trust vs. lack of trust)
• Do-It-With-Others
• Horizontality
• Peer production
• Strangers
• Conflict
• Difference
• Failure
• Enclosure

11. ‘Liminality, the spatio-temporal quality of threshold
experience, is a condition that gives people the
opportunity to share a common world-in-the-making, in
which differences appear as pre-social or even anti-social.
(...) (T)hrough their acts the people involved construct a
community of equals because they choose to define at
least part of their life autonomously and in common.
Emergent communities of creators and users of city
space: is this not a prospect that would transform city
space into common space, into space-as-commons?’
(Stavros Stavrides)

12. “In order to change the balance of power in the
contested urban environment, what is precisely
needed is to create networks with people who
were once strangers but could become allies, or
even friends. This is the specific challenge of
urban commons: to weave new networks of
trust and care amid the alienating pressures of
the capitalist cityscape.”
(Amanda Huron)