Activist collective
The Office for Communal Action [Oficina de Acción Comunal - OAC] is a recently set-up activist collective based in Spain formed by architect and urbanist Ana Méndez de Andés, law scholar Marco Aparicio, urban sociologist David Hamou, and anthropologist Edurne Bagué.
Commons Codes
The OAC is born from the experience of Códigos Comunes [Commons Codes], a research-action project on the possible codifications and protocols that can accompany processes of urban commoning.
Citizen self-management,
Since 2016, Common Codes has become a meeting place for actors from different backgrounds who share involvement in processes of citizen self-management, the elaboration of charters for the administration of the commons, or the proposal of non-state legal norms.
Experiences
Water, energy, housing, health, public space, civic use, food sovereignty and digital tools
Since 2020, we have been working on the articulation between commons, administrative tools and the potential and possible implementations of the becoming-common of the public in urban provisions of water, energy, housing, health, public space, civic use, food sovereignty and digital tools.
Based on its experiences in the Iberian Peninsula and internationally, the Office for Communal Action team has developed an honest citizen’s expertise in the reflection and practice of the urban commons, in the production of critical knowledge, as well as in the organisation and dynamisation of workshops and seminars.
Path
Urban commons, production of critical knowledge, rganisation and dynamisation of workshops and seminars
Transformation
Social movements, progressive political actors and public administration officials
We are convinced that bringing together social movements, progressive political actors and public administration officials around emerging urban commons projects is a priority to support and strengthen social transformation processes.
