Researching community-led and commoning practices to improve accessibility in urban peripheries
Discover how COMMON_ACCESS is revolutionising accessibility options in city outskirts and beyond through community shared practices.
partnering for access to services and facilities for all communities
Commoning Accessibility (CA) practices are initiatives where people produce and/or share services as a community to improve access to needed activities and services.
Commoning accessibility is an innovative concept that applies commoning practices to accessibility to ultimately empower citizens and communities to reach essential services and destinations such as healthcare facilities, schools, grocery stores and public transit.
The concept is about far more than just mobility. Commoning accessibility practices encapsulates all aspects of commons management, democratic decision making and community participation so local issues are addressed with local and contextually appropriate solutions.
These practices can support the creation of more inclusive and sustainable built environments, enhancing the social dimensions of mobility and accessibility for communities in locations where essential services can be hard to access, such as the peripheries of cities.
Towns and villages that have applied commoning practices have benefited by organising a range of services, platforms, and policy guidance:
- Community-shared (e-) bikes
- Community micro-mobility Hubs
- Community-car clubs
- Community parcel lockers
- Community car clubs
- Mobile community services
- Community-led temporary and tactical measures
- Citizen-based community datasets for digital connectivity and access
Discover existing commoning accessibility practices
Communities in Europe and worldwide have already adopted commoning accessibility practices to develop local solutions addressing accessibility challenges.
The COMMON_ACCESS Atlas is an online database designed to explore different times of commoning accessibility practice, understand their impact, and to inspire new experiments and practice.
Discover commoning accessibility practices from across Europe
What we do AT COMMON_ACCESS
The project understands Commoning Accessibility practices and explore their potential to contribute to achieving the 15minC in urban peripheries . Working closely with local planning authorities, communities and businesses, the project brings a multidisciplinary perspective to unpack the characteristics of commoning accessibility practices
