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. hosted at the zürich university of the arts (ZHdK) but the program takes place mostly online.

What's On

WORLDPLAY

07.06.2026 — 13.06.2026

https://worldplay.art

WORLDPLAY is an opening move for a network that explores the revolutionary potential of play: What changes when we treat games as ways of organising, not just expressing? How do those changes expand from one gathering to many, carried by people, through their practice? Find out more

Care(fully) Following the Salt Traces

26.04.2026 — 27.09.2026

Care(fully) Following the Salt Traces

How to follow salt traces without the map... ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ....................~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~............................................................................ ............................................................................ Find out more

Counter Care

13.10.2026, 16:00 (BST) / 19:00 (CEST) / 10:00 (CST)

Counter Care attends to the subversive, relational practices that sustain life under conditions designed to exhaust it. We work in response to systems and structures that unevenly distribute care, merging it with coercion, commodifying it, and sustaining it through devalued labor. Find out more

TEXT ONLY HOME PAGE

15.09.2026, 18:00- 19:30 (CEST)

https://cloud.servus.at/s/R6AmMSKeexCfcpG (highly compressed videos of two works by the artist, “bordercontrol.js (ongoing/wip)” and “Berlin Campus 2025)

This peer learning / skill sharing session is for multi-disciplinary artists who are interested in exploring text-based computer art / web interventions. An algorithm is control: it is completely defined and knowable (even if it is not known in practice). Find out more

Current Cohort

Projects

IdeaSquare x SoC

IdeaSquare and School of Commons are collaborating on a series of workshops exploring 'The Future of Collaboration'. Find out more

FOOTNOTES 2045

FOOTNOTES 2045: Annotating the Futures of Arts Education

Annotating the Futures of Arts Education: A summer school that imagines, rethinks and shapes the futures of arts education. Find out more

To-Gather: SACO Contemporary Art Festival x SoC

to-gather-saco-x-soc

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