MUSICAL CHAIRS AS COMMONS | ASSEMBLY

Is the tragedy of the commons really inevitable?

We’re often taught that when resources become scarce, competition takes over: there’s never enough to go around, and someone is always left standing. But communities around the world have shown that shared resources can be managed differently.

Musical Chairs as Commons: The Resource Challenge, facilitated by Evgenia Tsianou, turns a familiar childhood game into a live experiment in cooperative resource management.

Participants will play musical chairs twice—first by the rules we all know, then with a twist that changes how the group responds to a shrinking resource. From there, the workshop will explore real-world models of community-led water, energy, and land management and ask what they can teach us about cooperation in the face of climate change.

📍 Performance Space New York
🗓 Friday, September 25
⏰ 12:30–2:00 PM

RSVP now: https://swissnex.org/boston/event/assembly-musical-chairs-as-commons/

Part of Climate Week: Assembly at Performance Space New York.

This event is presented in collaboration with Swissnex New York-Boston and SURE (Sustainable and Resilient Energy for Switzerland) consortium, which is funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy’s SWEET program and coordinated by the Paul Scherrer Institute.

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