Amy Gowen

Since 2023, Amy has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), overseeing the Publishing and Public Program. In 2024, she was appointed Deputy Director.

Amy Gowen is a writer, editor, and researcher, originally from Hereford, UK, now based in Rotterdam, NL.

Her work, which takes shape and form through various forms of publishing, including: writing, radio, editing, and curating, uses the frameworks of commoning, self-organised practices, and alternative ways of working at its core.

As part of her role at SoC she tends to the ‘Making Public’ programme trajectory, translating the processes and practices of the SoC programme into public outputs and publishing instances. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the annual publication ISSUES, and is the programme lead for the annual SoC Assembly which places the practices and processes of SoC into a wider context in collaboration with leading practitioners and thinkers across the fields of alternative education, self-organised practices, commoning, and beyond.

Outside of SoC, Amy is co-founder of the commons-based publishing project HumDrumPress (Rotterdam). She hosts the monthly radio show, Off Margin, on Worm Radio about text that moves off the page, and is part of the core programming team for the International Community Arts Festival (ICAF), Rotterdam.