# The coop-commons and the meet.coop handbook

**URL:** <https://forum.meet.coop/t/the-coop-commons-and-the-meet-coop-handbook/1173>\
**Category:** Principles\
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**Created:** [18 September 2022 17:49 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/the-coop-commons-and-the-meet-coop-handbook/1173 "2022-09-18T17:49:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikemh](https://forum.meet.coop/user_avatar/forum.meet.coop/mikemh/32/358_2.png) [@mikemh](https://forum.meet.coop/u/mikemh)\
**Post date:** [18 September 2022 17:49 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/the-coop-commons-and-the-meet-coop-handbook/1173/1 "2022-09-18T17:49:33Z")

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We adopt a model of commoning as a collective, transformative, activist practice, presented by respected commons researchers David Bollier and Silke Helfrich. See: [Commoning - The resurgent power of the commons](https://forum.meet.coop/t/commoning-the-resurgent-power-of-the-commons/1174).

We translate their model in this way . .

- **Provisioning** /curating/cultivating of commoned means of subsistence and wellbeing
- **Stewarding** of commoned means, and of practice in the commons
- **Mobilising** /enjoying/celebrating of the commons, by members, in everyday life and work

. . and represent it visually in this way, as a constellation of practices that constitute a community around shared means of subsistence and wellbeing (‘a commons’):

> **[commoning - generic schema.jpg](https://cloud.meet.coop/s/q6g8rzCyYMwtggw)**
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This commoning model is the basis of the design of [meet.coop](http://meet.coop), as a commons of digitally mediated spaces. The three component modes of practice (‘the triad’) thus underlie three basic divisions in the [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) Handbook:

- [**Political economy**](https://forum.meet.coop/c/handbook/polit-econ/76) - A contribution economy, with plural kinds of contribution.
- [**Assemblies & deliberations**](https://forum.meet.coop/c/handbook/assemblies/78) - The architecture of spaces in which the work of stewarding & provisioning in [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) is done.
- [**Social relations**](https://forum.meet.coop/c/handbook/social-relations/77) - Altered social relations in a community of digital commoners, enjoying the [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) commons and organising transformative practices.