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Commoning is the act of sharing and managing resources—cultural and natural—with minimal reliance on the market or state, and where each stakeholder has an equal interest. User-managed governance of the environments we inhabit—from land ownership, to buildings, to domestic spaces—enables residents to be key agents in how resources are distributed, valued, and maintained. This lecture will focus on a series of design experiments by THE OPEN WORKSHOP that explore a range of commons—both in type and scale—that use architecture to catalyze and frame the mechanisms for commoning.

Fed up with permanent housing crisis and real estate greed? Join the co-founder of the LA Tenants Union and co-author of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis for an in-depth discussion of the housing question and the resurgent tenant movement. Why do landlords claim the majority of our wages while they work only four hours a month? What if the housing crisis was a crisis of exploitation and domination? How can we turn the shared misery of paying rent into shared power to win the housing we deserve?

A creative director reflects on the power of story and public engagement to influence design when creating spaces and experiences that connect people in a designed environment. Explore the power of story, public engagement and site-responsive design work featuring the exhibited project “Do Something GOOD for your Neighbor” in the Como community in Fort Worth, TX and more.