Researching The Commons
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The Commons keep attracting the interest of researchers from multiple perspectives. A very interesting example of this is the Quality Commons workshop that took place a few days ago (28/29 of Jan 2010) in Paris. This workshop, an initiative from the Centre for Research in Social Simulation, approaches from a multidisciplinary perspective the problem of defining quality collectively, especially concerning common goods. That is, the process of emergence of quality when it is not defined by the top but constructed in a decentralized way:
"In many areas, people collectively develop shared representations of the quality of artefacts. Scientific communities produce collective ...