Calendar of Events
July 2017
IASC’s XVIth Biennial Conference in Utrecht, 10-14 July 2017. Practicing the Commons.
The ‘Institutions for Collective Action’ research team of Utrecht University as well as the researchers affiliated with Utrecht University’s Strategic Theme ‘Institutions for Open Societies’ are proud to jointly host the global XVI Biennial Conference, ‘Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change’ of The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) in the historical city centre of Utrecht, 10-14 July 2017. The conference is expected to attract over 600 participants from all over the world: academics, practitioners, and…
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INDIGO Public lecture: MAKE IT COMMON. Differing and composing common spaces and common-places
INDIGO Public lecture by Laurent Thévénot (EHESS) MAKE IT COMMON. Differing and composing common spaces and common-places The model of orders of worth analyses conventions of equivalence and evaluation which aim at public legitimacy, insofar as they are based on a characterization of the common good for humanity and are put to a reality test through action. This model does not address the good of a community, except through the utopian conception of a single-worth cité which extends to the…
Find out more »INDIGO Research Seminar: From the Théorie des Cités to the creation of Landed Commons
INDIGO Research Seminar: From the Théorie des Cités to the creation of Landed Commons On the 15th of December 2017, the INDIGO-research-consortium organises an International Research Seminar on the “Théorie des Cités” and how it can be applied in Action Research on the Concrete Landed Commons, with contributions by Laurent Thévenot (EHESS), Bruno Frère (Université de Liège), Antoinette Dumont (UCL), Frank Moulaert, Pieter Van den Broeck, Sofia Saavedra Bruno (KULeuven, Planning & Development). We cordially invite you to the presentations and the methodological discussions on…
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