🗓 Thursday 6 Feb – Saturday 8 Feb
🌐 Online / Open to all (so tell a friend)
⏰ Times (CET): Thurs 15:30–18:00 | Fri 15:00–18:00 | Sat 10:30–17:00 | Sun 11:00–17:00
The School of Commons Assembly 2026 unfolds in a moment of strain and transition. It follows a *Town Hall* titled Tensile Structures, where fragility and strength became visible — and new questions emerged:
🤝 How do we hold each other?
🌱 How do we stretch without tearing?
⚖️ How do we sustain collective structures when the ground is shifting?
If Tensile Structures names the condition, Making a Vessel in the Sky names the response. Drawing from the ISSUES metafesto and the image of the sky-boat, the Assembly imagines collectivity not as fixed, but brought into being through shared belief, care, and coordination.
🛠️ Not a monument — a practice
💫 Not certainty — relation
⛵Not walls — a vessel in formation
A sky-boat held together by imagination, mutual dependency, care, humour, friction, and trust. No single entry point. No fixed ground. Step on — you are already part of its making.
✨ Key Moments
✨ Cohort 2025 Programme projects exploring learning, collaboration, experimentation
awol (glacier rapport), stretching exercises to feel climate change, (d)estructura, CHIMERA, Mentoring as Practice, Enough English, Tantdile Xperimenta Lab, Shortwave Collective, Broudou School, Chromatics for change: an inclusive visual language for climate communication
✨ Workshop by Jana Vanecek
✨ ISSUES Launch 2025: Exquisite Commons metafesto, open archive, shared vessel for collective voice
✨ Learning Commons: Tensile Structures Round Table with guest facilitators from the previous Assembly KUNCI Study Forum* (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) Materia Abierta (Mexico City, Mexico) Institute for Postnatural Studies (Madrid, Spain) Caradt Research Group of the St. Joost Academy/ Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, NL) CASCO Art Institute Working for the Commons (Utrecht, NL)
Contributors (A–Z)
Alejandro Vasquez Salinas, Alisa Probylova, Aline Hernández, Alyssa Moxley, Ana Rivera, Aziza Gorgi, Belén Arellano Cañizares, Brigitte Hart, caro bodensteiner, Cyrine Ghrissi, El puente_lab, Emily Sarsam, Fiky Daulay, Georgia Leigh-Münster, Giuliana Marmo, Guillermo Martinez de Velasco, Hannah Kemp-Welch, Jana Vanecek, Jere Ikongio, Juan Sandoval, Kateryna Vavrynchuk, Klara Branting Paulsell, Layla Fassa, Lou Croff Blake, Madelyn Byrd, Maria Papadomanolaki, Mariangela Aponte Núñez, Mary Sarsam, Nora Sobbe, Nuraini Juliastuti, Oleksandra Tsapko, Sara Bouzgarrou, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Stefan Ralevic, Ula Liagaitė, Yue Wu, Zoë Heyn-Jones
With support from the SoC Team (A–Z): Amy Gowen, Chantelle Lue, Gabriel Hensche, Jelena Mair, Marea Hildebrand
🛠️ Full programme coming soon
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*Town Hall* Now a core part of the SoC methodology — a shared space for collective reflection, accountability, and reorientation.
