Communities need tools to grow their networks for mutual recognition and advocacy. ‘Tools’ are not instruments that can be automatically transplanted, but rather seeds that can flourish in different ways, according to different contexts. Indeed, transforming organisations’ knowledge into ‘tools’ is not a way to fetishise the tool itself, but rather an effort to find strategies to share experiences and mutualise practices.

Therefore, to further develop the content of the Homes of Commons, in the last few months of the project, the CCSC consortium focused on a participatory process to create a policy toolkit and a prototyping process of the Homes of Commons, defined from communities’ perspectives.

The TOOLKIT FOR THE HOME OF COMMONS is a policy toolbox for active cultural communities in Europe to become “Homes of Commons” that are able to:

• Host and support open and heterogeneous movements of people and cultural workers that make knowledge, means of production and political spaces accessible to the community at large

• Host and support the development proposals for new policies and institutional arrangements at both local and EU level.

Link: Toolkit for Homes of Commons (spacesandcities-toolkit.com)