Governance & Ownership models

Permissioning based on precedents (like case law)

• Every space starts with basic template of rules which are iterated thereafter


• Everything is allowed (within legal limits) until something happens to change the rules


• Templates need to be updated regularly (time limited templates)

Permissions are peer reviewed (e.g. permissioning group)

• Permissioning group performs the role of space stewards — responsible for maintaining permission templates, approving bespoke permissions

according to commons scholar and activist Silke Helfrich, offer ways to both perceive and interact with Commons, which can be seen as:

Collectively managed resources , both material and immaterial, which need protection and require a lot of knowledge and know-how.

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We created a mechanism where collaborators would agree on unforeseen liability holding by centring the wide-boundary mission, taking a multi-capital view, and considering each party's capacity to absorb risk

Incentives

• Prioritise system level of risk and benefit sharing — to avoid rent seeking behaviours


• Prioritise generating system level of incentives/benefits (rather than personal/individual)

Power and liability as inextricably linked: If you want to make decisions you need to share liability i.e. skin in the game

• Prioritise proximity to space and physical presence (linked to shared risk and liability)