Common Ecologies is a movement school and a platform for movement learning, alliance-building and co-research. We organize discussions, encounters, co-learning processes and courses. These happen either online or in one of the many different sites we are located or allied with. We produce, circulate and activate analysis in the form of podcasts, texts and publications. In our work, there is often a focus on translation across languages, places and contexts.
We work with people, groups and movements that struggle for socio-ecological transformation and justice in a way that favours long-term organising, meaningful engagement and honest alliances. Our work is based out of different locations in Europe, linking to a network of allies, collaborators and referents across Europe and beyond. We try to combine online translocal activities with embodied and place-based engagement in meaningful and sustainable ways.
We currently operate via three strands: Earthcare, Ecosocial Education, and Ecosyndicalism. They work on socioecological justice and transition across the fields of agriculture/food, education and labour respectively. For us, a key point is to articulate these with one another in different concrete ways: they’re our common ecologies.
Get in touch
We’re always excited to meet new compas and co-conspirators to explore new collaborations and exchange ideas. If you want to get in touch, email us at: info [at] commonecologies [dot] net, or register for any of our ongoing activities. We’re always happy looking for support with web development and maintenance, design, translations, social media and general planning and organizing.
Who we are
We’re organised in different layers, with a collective of more or less ten people at the core, working with a layer of collaborators called acompañantes in each strand, as well as with a wider network of advisors and allies.
The Common Ecologies collective currently consists of Manuela Zechner, Adriana Eysler, Nadine Gerner, Joris Leverink (as coordinating team) and Bue Rübner Hansen, Lea Zentgraf, Laura Mendoza Sandoval, Jana Ahlers and Mariana Calcagni. We’re based across Austria, Germany, Italy and the UK with strong ties to Spain, Denmark, Colombia, Chile, Brasil and beyond. We’re a mix of researchers, facilitators, organisers and text- as well as cultural workers. Our group naturally fluctuates as people move in and out of being in the core collective and acompañante roles.
Common Ecologies acompañantes in the Earthcare Strand include Lina Hansen and Sarah Gorenflos (working alongside Manu, Nadine, Lea, Laura and Mariana). Key acompañantes in the Ecosocial Education strand include Nelly Alfandari and Maggie Schmitt (working alongside Manu and Adriana), as well as allies in our local education nodes in the Eastern Meditteranean, Iberian Peninsula, British Isles and German-speaking countries. Acompañantes in Ecological Syndicalism includes Michel Jungwirth, Daniel Gutiérrez and others soon to be mentioned here (working along Bue, Jana and others). This list of names is in fluctuation and not necessarily always perfectly updated.
Our advisors and key allies include Andrea Ghelfi, Christos Giovannopoulos, Amaranta Herrero, Panagiota Kotsila, Sarah Schilliger, Katharine Ainger, Valery Alzaga, Camille Barbagallo, Stefania Barca, Kylie Benton-Connell, Nic Beuret, Kevin Buckland, Uli Brand, Carlos Delclos, Melissa Garcia-Lamarca, Janna Graham, Liz Mason-Deese, Tomislav Medak, Keir Milburn, Jason W. Moore, Rodrigo Nunes, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Nora Räthzel, Isabelle Saint-Saëns, Rosalie Arendt, Attila Szocs amongst many others.
There are many collectives and platforms we frequently collaborate with in our strands, too many to name here. For translations we often collaborate with la Laboratoria, for our graphics we often collaborate with Amanda Priebe.
