school of commons (SoC) is a global community-based initiative dedicated to peer learning, and the study and development of self-organized knowledge production—through commons-based methods and practices. located at the Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK) but the program takes place mostly online.
What's On
School of Commons Assembly 2025
08.02.2025 — 09.02.2025
The School of Commons (SoC) Assembly 2025 is a two-day facilitated space for gathering, exchange, and the reproduction and circulation of knowledge and experience that seeks to question, complicate, and contend with the question: 'How to assemble [in our current social, political, economic, ecological times]'. Find out more
Current Cohort
Co-Making Matters: Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Commons-Based Learning in Urban Environments
Lost in Conversation: Inviting Tacit Knowledge into Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- [2024]
- Mariam Rafehi
Pattern Greens
- [2024]
- Annie Levy
Projects
The Commons Online
One platform, with community at its core—our culture is collective sustainability. Find out more
To-Gather
The project sought to increase the flow, dialogue, and exchange of experiences between curators and artists from Switzerland and the South American Altiplano, connecting with specific territories through artistic residencies. Find out more
FOOTNOTES 2045
Annotating the Futures of Arts Education: A summer school that imagines, rethinks and shapes the futures of arts education. Find out more