Question: How do you connect with Exquisite Commons?
"Speaking, listening, speaking again, archiving, arguing, deflecting, responding, listening, overthinking, acknowledging, relating, choosing not to or speaking again." - ARCHIIVE
"When shared food is cared for together - Human and Unhuman - where eating becomes an act of relationship, responsibility, belonging, creation and cultural meaning is valuable." - Broudou School
"Hitching a Ride to Enough English is a one-person-headed project that could only ever work in connection to a bigger group - a group exactly like this cohort! I was here for the ride, grateful to be here, and, suddenly, I was floating above everything there is - I didn’t realize I had gotten a ride with a boat in the sky until I already had:)" - Hitching a Ride to Enough English
"boats floating in a basket is a phrase inspired by the year of soc 2025 meetings and influenced the film produced as part of the research. The film takes inspiration from ‘boats in the sky’, a framework for the SOC 2025 online meetings. The metaphors created a common language for thinking about care, movement, uncertainty, and interdependence.
In the short film, Boats floating in a basket, the boat becomes a symbol of knowledge in motion that is never fixed, never owned, always carried. The basket represents the commons: a woven structure held together by many hands, histories, and materials. It does not belong to one person. It holds because it is shared. The basket is fragile, yet resilient. It allows many boats to float together without hierarchy
In response to Exquisite Commons as a practice of attunement rather than control. Knowledge here is not extracted, stabilised, or monumentalised. It is held temporarily, listened to, and passed on. The ephemerality of sound, oral storytelling, and collective memory mirrors the ethics of the commons as something that exists through care, repetition, and participation." - Likon'yor - decolonising knowledge production through the unseen
"Utterances/questions/gestures/methods that take place in one-to-one mentoring-sessions might become “exquisite commons” for people currently engaged in mentoring, as well as for those interested in starting a mentoring relationship, as they circulate between different mentee-mentor pairings. They might inform upcoming mentoring sessions, might be modified or put aside. They might invite a discussion of preconceptions of mentoring that mentee and mentor bring into the session. They might raise the question of how, and in which constellations, we want to learn together." - Mentoring as Practice
"The boat in the sky sails on invisible waves." - Radio-Dreaming into the Electromagnetic Commons
"The horizon is the apparent junction of earth and sky.
An exquisite commons entails spatial and social interaction grounded in horizontality.
Organizing ourselves horizontally allows for a relay of efforts that help create a structure in which our ideas are connected and placed on top of, below, and next to each other, thereby building a framework for action.
Our collective boat in the sky departs from this juncture, casting off its lines as it sails jet streams and trade winds. The keel is built from our ideas, the hull from our shared labor; the helm can withstand stormy weather, and with many hands at work, the rudder is always (hu)manned." - Sala de té
"Family as a boat in the sky ~ a large, non-genetic household, tables filled with exquisite commons for all.
Commoning comes from closeness—from shared ground, shared breath, and shared responsibility—but it is eroded by the passive body that dwells in comfort and distance, allowing all that harms, hurts and numbs at the same time to move quietly through screens and systems, while fingers press buttons. The active body, which feels weight, fatigue, and consequence, practices the commons by refusing separation, slowing the world enough to reveal what is taken, who bears the loss, and why such presence is so often pushed aside as inconvenient. We carry our exquisite bodies in common." practicing family
"Composite bodies prowl the wild mountains, breathing fire and eating unwary stray cows. Try to become ‘more-than.’ Try to coordinate your most contrasting parts; can you move with them? A living collage, an Exquisite Creature." - CHIMERA
"The fact that it contains parts from a collective writing practice." - Glacier Rapport
"Do we have answers for the future? We barely have a handful of present desires and needs for a vessel in the air." - (D)estructura