Brigitte Kratzwald is a social scientist and commons activist dealing with the currently arising new forms of collective production and bottom-up strategies of reorganizing the society in a way supportive to both, human beings and our non human environment. She holds lectures and workshops about related issues and published several articles about commons. She is part of the organizing team of events dealing with social transformation, e.g. the Elevate Festival in Graz or the Commons Summerschool in Thüringen (Germany).