Dear Green Commons: How to share a city
Our city is a people’s city. Dear Green Commons is four public gatherings in June & August 2026 from the Centre for Human Ecology, exploring the commons as a practical foundation for co-creating just futures in Glasgow.
Our Dear Green Commons. A forum foregrounding local experiences of inequality, resilience, and community organising in Glasgow, learning from urban commons movements that seek to co-create alternatives to gentrification and privatisation. We will weave together insights from the previous sessions, and collectively articulate visions of the commons as infrastructures of care and mutual support.
Contributors: Grassroots2Global; Fergus Walker, The Orchard Project; Toby Pepperell. More to be announced.
8 August, 2pm – 5:30pm
GalGael Workshops & Garden
A Commons Ceilidh. A closing gathering that shares songs, stories, spoken word, honouring community voices and sharing folk traditions for collective empowerment.
Hosted by Doctur Normul. Others to be announced.
8 August, 5:30pm – 8pm
GalGael Workshops & Garden
Past events:
- Flourish. A sharing of stories that explore the city’s diverse intercultural heritage as a living commons through food cultures, art and economic activity that sustain wealth and power within local communities.
Contributors: Dr Pinar Aksu, Zarina Ahmad, Diana Quintana Cataño, Fergus Walker, Moogety Garden and Dr Svenja Meyerricks
13 June, 6pm – 9pm
The Pearce Institute - Clyde Commons. An immersive walk and talk in central Govan, exploring issues of gentrification, bioregioning and embodied practice – asking what it all means for the Clyde Commons, using walking as an urban research method. A conversation between artist about the Clyde bioregion. The event will also see the re-launch of the Centre for Human Ecology’s Clydeside reference library and community learning space, in the Pearce Institute.
Contributors: Neil Gray, Saffy Setohy, Jamie Wardrop, Luke Devlin and Dr Anne Winther
13 June, 2pm – 5pm
The Pearce Institute
All tickets are free/ by donation. All are welcome. Supported by and part of the Glasgow 2026 Festival.
