Lessons For a Storytelling Commons

A commons is a collective resource sustained by those who rely on it, which is cared for by a community according to a set of mutually agreed rules. Crucially, this is a very different way of organising our information space than public or private ownership. Imagine if our most powerful stories weren’t shaped by corporations like the Daily Mail, Google or even the BBC, but instead were generated by and for communities, according to values and principles they had agreed together.