Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Designing Conditions for the Social -- 3. Designing in the Neighborhood: Beyond (and in the Shadow of)Creative Communities -- 4. Connecting with the Powerful Strangers: From Governance to Agonistic Design Things -- 5. Opening Production: Design and Commons -- 6. While Waiting for the Third Industrial Revolution: Attempts at Commoning Production -- 7. Playing with Fire: Collaborating through Digital Sketching in a Creative Community -- 8. How Deep Is Your Love? On Open-Source Hardware -- 9. Creative Class Struggles -- 10. The Making of Cultural Commons: Nasty Old Film Distributionand Funding -- 11. Collaborative Design and Grassroots Journalism: Public Controversies and Controversial Publics -- 12. Stories on Future-Making in Everyday Practices from Managers in the Creative Industries -- 13. Emerging Publics: Totem-Poling the 'We's and 'Me'sof Citizen Participation -- 14. Performing the City: Exploring the Bandwidth of Urban Place-Making through New-Media Tactics -- 15. Publics-in-the-Making: Crafting Issues in a Mobile Sewing Circle -- 16. Emerging Publics and Interventions in Democracy -- Contributors -- Index.