Stacco Troncoso (Spain) is the strategic direction steward of the P2P Foundation as well as the project lead for Commons Transition, the P2PF’s main communication and advocacy hub. He is also a co-founder of the P2P translation collective Guerrilla Translation. A professional translator since 1998, Stacco grew up in London, England, and returned to Madrid, Spain, to study Fine Arts in 1992. Since 2011, he has been involved in the 15-M and Occupy movements, out of which Guerrilla Translation was conceived to facilitate sharing information across cultures and languages. He is also designer/content editor for CommonsTransition.org and the new Commons Strategies Group website. His work in communicating commons culture extends to public speaking and relationship-building with prefigurative communities, policymakers and potential commoners worldwide.
New Generations Meet New Alternatives: the Commons and the Youth Initiative Program
By Stacco Troncoso, P2P Foundation
One of the worst effects of capitalist realism is the endless bad-mouthing of alternatives to its toxicity. With this in mind, I’d like to share with you some extraordinary examples of imaginative prototyping exercises towards commons-oriented futures — presented by the very people who will bring them about in the face of darker possibilities.
The Open Coop Governance Model in Guerrilla Translation: an Overview
By Stacco Troncoso, P2P Foundation Blog
If Guerrilla Translation is a co-op, think of the co-op members as shareholders. Okay, like in an evil corporation, but bear with us. Each member is an owner, holding different types of shares in the collective.
Reimagine, Don’t Seize, the Means of Production
By Ann Marie Utratel, Stacco Troncoso, P2P Foundation Blog
One of the most difficult systems to reimagine is global manufacturing. If we are producing offshore and at scale, ravaging the planet for short-term profits, what are the available alternatives? A movement combining digital and physical production points toward a new possibility: Produce within our communities, democratically and with respect for nature and its carrying capacity.
When does the Commons Transition begin?
By Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Stacco Troncoso, Ann Marie Utratel, P2P Foundation
All of the above form a strategy for a multi-modal commons-centric transition, offering a positive way out of the current crisis and a way to respond to the new demands of the commons-influenced generations. The Commons and the prefigurative forms of a new value regime already exist. The commoners are already here, and they’re already commoning; in other words, the Commons transition has begun.
Commons in the Time of Monsters
By Ann Marie Utratel, Stacco Troncoso, The Commons Transition
The Commons is maturing politically, its methods and principles becoming more visible and its participants winning municipal elections in a variety of European cities. How did this happen, and what happens next? First, a look at our present political context, and then some observations on the birth and trajectory of this new wave of commons politics.
From Platform to Open Cooperativism
By Stacco Troncoso, Ann Marie Utratel, Commons Transition
Beyond critiques of the Silicon Valley-style “sharing economy”, Open Cooperativism questions the dominance of capital in the free and open source software economy, and suggests P2P-empowered digital solutions in order to lower the transactional costs of networked cooperative production.
De-commodification, Abundance, and Capital for the Commons
By Stacco Troncoso, Commons Transition
Abundance is a new economic frame in which scarcity cannot be preserved. It’s funny to speak in these terms about scarcity, but it is appropriate. Economics used to be about managing scarce resources, but scarcity has turned out to be not a condition to overcome, but the Holy Grail to access monetary wealth for some.
The Commons Collaborative Economy Explodes in Barcelona
By Stacco Troncoso, Ann Marie Utratel, The Commons Transition
Always known as a vivid and creative city, Barcelona is taking the lead as an exemplary change agent on the European stage. Its DIY vigor and urgent form of citizen-level democracy are palpable, contagious, and best of all, effective.