“In the 17th century, the great thinkers of the Enlightenment—John Locke, Erasmus, and Milton—maintained what were known as Commonplace Books. These were curated intellectual inventories.
In this digital space, I have chosen to separate the words: Common Place. Common, because wisdom is a shared inheritance. Place, because in an algorithmic age of ‘digital drift,’ we require a fixed location where colleagues and thinkers can stand together.
In Common Place, we practice the Tabula Rasa protocol: leaving prejudices at the door to re-learn connection and explore shared possibilities.”
The Common Place Strands:
1. Things to Chew On
A philosophical workshop for the mind. We test out broader intellectual ideas, explore shared possibilities, and practice that active Tabula Rasa openness without the pressure of having to “solve” anything.
2. Gentle Rebellions
Highly practical and deeply personal, this strand focuses on the conscious, everyday choices we make to defy algorithmic anxiety, and the deficit models of the modern world.
3. NON sense
Our satirical release valve. Showing the absurdity of systems, with a smirk.(With thanks to Private Eye, James O’Brien and Ted Wragg).