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German Wiki article: Commoning (Gemeinschaffen), German federated Wiki by Silke Helfrich: here, translation after the English book by David Bollier & Silke Helfrich (2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, p. 360 ff.)

The Pattern Language of Commoning uses the concept of a pattern language as a set of domain-specific patterns developed by architect Christopher Alexander to expand Elinor Ostrom's eight design principles for managing the Commons (cited after Bollier/Helfrich 2019, p. 379 f.):

1. Clearly defined boundaries Individuals or households who have rights to withdraw resource units from the common-pool resource (CPR) must be clearly defined, as must the boundaries of the CPR itself.
2. Congruence between appropriation and provision rules and local conditions Appropriation rules restricting time, place, technology, and/or quantity of resource units are related to local conditions and to provision rules requiring labor, material, and/or money
3. Collective-choice arrangements Most individuals affected by the operational rules can participate in modifying the operational rules.
4. Monitoring Monitors, who actively audit CPR conditions and appropriator behavior, are accountable to the appropriators or are the appropriators.
5. Graduated sanctions Appropriators who violate operational rules are likely to be assessed graduated sanctions (depending on the seriousness and context of the offense) by other appropriators, by officials accountable to these appropriators, or both.
6. Conflict resolution mechanismsAppropriators and their officials have rapid access to low-cost local arenas to resolve conflicts among appropriators or between appropriators and officials.
7. Minimal recognition of rights to organizeThe rights of appropriators to devise their own institutions are not challenged by external governmental authorities.
8. Nested enterprises (for CPRs that are parts of larger systems) Appropriation, provision, monitoring, enforcement, conflict resolution and governance activities, are organized in multiple layers of nested enterprises.

Social Interaction

Peer Governance

Creating Commons

Other Design Principles

Some see an overlap in content between Commoning and Permaculture, which is why consulting Bill Mollison's 3 foundational ethics (care of the Earth, care of the people, setting limits to population and consumption) and David Holmgren's 12 design principles might also be helpful:

1. Observe and interact.
2. Catch and store energy.
3. Obtain a yield.
4. Apply self-regulation and accept feedback.
5. Use and value renewable resources and services.
6. Produce no waste.
7. Design from patterns to details.
8. Integrate rather than segregate.
9. Use small and slow solutions.
10. Use and value diversity.
11. Use edges and value the marginal.
12. Creatively use and respond to change.

Hybrid organizations for Commoning (distributed cooperative organizations, DisCOs) have additional derived 7 core values and 11 design principles. Martin Siefke created ten design principles for the transition to Commons-based Peer-Production. A systemic literature review of 2023 abstracted 39 patterns for degrowth-compatible value creation.