Practices of Commoning:

Both a learning platform and a pedagogical experiment, Urban School Ruhr (USR) is built upon the foundational belief that experts and amateurs can, together, build a space of critical exchange and knowledge transfer. USR prioritises exchange and dialogue that is not necessarily attached to specific outcomes, results or interventions in built reality, instead understanding conversation as the first step to co-producing cities. Drawing on diverse experiences from practice, activism, and academia, this conversation introduces key questions in the field: How can we approach city-making as a learning process? In what ways should we understand the political concept of commoning to support this aim? And how might we consider intervention as a strategy for driving urban change?