Freerange Press launches Freerange Vol.7: The Commons

Where: 88 Worcester Street

When: Sunday 27 October, 6 – 7pm.

Freerange Press are pleased to announce the launch of their latest journal  – Freerange Vol. 7: The Commons – on Sunday 27 October (6 – 7pm) at 88 Worcester St during Christchurch’s Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA).

Freerange Vol. 7 focuses on the commons, which can be defined as ‘all that we share’ or those resources that are managed collectively by a community. This issue explores diverse commons, from intellectual property rights through to food, education, public space and cultural identity.

From folk poems to the ‘Freetown’ of Christiania, from commons perspectives of the Christchurch earthquake to peer-to-peer economy examples, the information presented on the commons is far from comprehensive yet it is full of inspirational visions of a more commons based future.

What better place is there to celebrate the release, talk about the commons with the editors and share visions for a more commons-based future than at a festival which opens up the city to the community’s desire to participate in its making?

Join us for the launch and a drink, right in the heart of FESTA’s city-within-a-city.

This journal is edited by Joseph Cederwall and Jessie Moss. It features contributions from Anne Salmond, O. Ripeka Mercier (lecturer in Maori Studies at Victoria University), SIlke Helfrich (commons expert), David Bollier (American author & activist), Hannah Hopewell, John Allan, Leland Maschmeyer, Thomas Owen and William Shannon.

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The city is too big for any one discipline, model or profession to master, and as such we each need to understand our place within it. Freerange journals aim to aid this understanding by stimulating cross-disciplinary, accessible yet intellectually challenging writing about the city, design, politics and pirates. Questions are welcomed. Please visit www.projectfreerange.com for more information about Freerange publications and projects.