Out of their substantial programme of anthropological research on commons, Silke Helfrich and David Bollier derived a **pattern language of commoning**
>David Bollier & Silke Helfrich (2019), *Free, fair and alive - The insurgent power of the commons*, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers website 
Patterns are organised in three constitutive dimensions which their research reveals to be present in commoning practices of diverse kinds: - the social life of commoning, - peer governance through commoning and - provisioning through commons.
Framework - Zones of focus in 'A pattern language of commoning'
>Provisioning patterns include *#167 Make & Use Together*, *#189 Use Convivial Tools* and *#191 Rely on Distributed Structures*.
>Peer governance patterns include *#146 Peer Monitor & Apply Graduated Sanctions*, *#151 Keep Commons & Commerce Distinct* and *#152 Enclosures as a Threat to Commons*.
In addition to this system of patterns, their perspective on commoning as a politics embraces an **aesthetics** and an **activist pragmatics** of Growing the Commonsverse.
The aesthetics involves a transformational ‘onto-shift’ involving ‘Ubuntu Rationality’. The pragmatics engages with relationalizing property, taking commoning to scale, and state power. These latter sit outside the pattern language proper, but nevertheless constitute elements of a ‘patternish’ frame on commoning, as a practice of politicised production of society and economy.
There are 35 patterns in the formal language, and the makings of as many again, in the aesthetics and activist-pragmatics.
The federated wiki seems to be partly broken, but it illustrates the use of wiki as a medium for collaboratively developing pattern language wiki
>Using fedwiki is an important aspect of the proposed practice in the college.