Culture Commons: institutions, networks, and other forms of cooperation | International Forum on the Sustainability of Culture

How — and where — does it actually make sense for small cultural organisations to hold more in common? On the 25th and 26th of September 2026, the International Forum on the Sustainability of Culture returns for its second edition. An international network of interconnected hubs, labs and territory-focused roundtables, the NYC node is hosted in New York across Prime Produce, the Cybernetics Library, and Wikimedia NYC. This node gathers artists, thinkers, and cultural practitioners for a relaxed but active working session on the structure and governance of commons. The format is convivial by design: following a lecture by Silvia Federici, a shared lunch invites everyone to think together, and a smaller streamed conversation then brings table representatives together to report the discussion back to the online audience. Bringing together some of the small, independent associations and institutions that make up New York's cultural fabric, the session asks not whether commoning is desirable in the abstract, but under what concrete conditions — and between whom — it can meaningfully grow.