It has been a very busy summer full of great news on the project front. Here’s a quick update!
Category: Publications
Urban Commons Cookbook: 8 interviews complete!
Just a quick update about progress on the UCC!
Urban Commons Cookbook: First impressions from the interviews
It’s been a busy few weeks since I got back from vacation, but today I’m excited to share some impressions from the first interviews for the Urban Commons Cookbook.
New Project: The Urban Commons Cookbook
I’m excited to announce that I am working on a new book, The Urban Commons Cookbook, which will gather urban commoners’ experiences and create a practical handbook which gathers real-world insights, usable tips, and tested methods for creating and maintaining commons which can inform actors from the civil society and politics alike. We’ll be launching a Kickstarter in mid-February – stay tuned! You can read the full exposé here.
Städtewandel durch Kultur has arrived!
Two and a half years in the making – my first book in German!
Review for “Urban Commons: Moving Beyond State and Market”
Ryan Jepson from the University of Vienna has reviewed our book. Read an excerpt and find a link to the full text here.
Paper now available for download
I’ve uploaded and English-language copy of an article from 2015 about belonging and identity, which I presented in Gdansk at the Smart Metropolia conference. Check out and excerpt here and follow the link at the bottom of the post to download the full article.
Urban Commons – New article published!
Martin Schwegmann and I have tackled urban commons again in our newest article together as part of an event we both took part in in January for the program Actors of Urban Change. Check out the links in this post to download the article and the full publication.
New forthcoming book: “Urban Development through Culture”
My first full-length work since my dissertation will be coming out in German this summer. I was asked to write a book for laypersons about urban development through culture by the state central office for political education in Thuringia. We’re just in the final throes of editing now. Expected release date sometime late summer!
Do benches determine where we sit and with whom?
According to my newest article – yes! And the people who get to decide where to put those benches influence our daily life in cities’ public spaces. Check out and excerpt here and follow the link at the bottom of the post to download the full article.
Labor market conference documentation now available
The documentation of the two conferences that I moderated workshops at in June 2015 (“Successful Approaches for Combatting Unemployment in Europe – BerlinWorks as a Starting Point”) and December 2015 (“Work 4.0 – made in Berlin”) are now available for download in German & English on the Senate Department for Labour, Integration & Women’s Issues website.
Appearance in the Make_City Festival Mini-Documentary
In June of 2015, I spoke at the Make_City Festival here in Berlin in the course of the publicity surrounding our newly released book. You can see my quote here around minute 2:00.
