Towards a Rural Commons Manifesto. Investigating emerging commoning practices, engaging communities, exploring design approaches through an itinerant and transregional Festival

Commons can be defined as a collective response to shared needs and desires expressed by a community. Practices that promote more inclusive habitats and communities, made of people, other human beings, resources, spaces, goods and services for the community. Research has been conducted on the relevance of the commons for societies and economies of rural areas, from different perspectives and using different approaches and concepts. For this reason, there is the need to create synergies among the academic fields and the non-academic and practitioner worlds, to enable a concerted recognition of the commons for the present and the future of rural and mountain regions.