VOICE OF COMMONS
Broadcasting from Venice – a city on the climate frontlines – Voice of Commons is a new podcast amplifying the voices of our Global Commons: Antarctica, the Ocean, the Atmosphere, and Outer Space. As we approach the 1.5°C threshold set by the Paris Agreement, destabilised Commons are triggering rising seas, mass displacement, and increasing ecological and geopolitical instability – yet they remain voiceless in global governance. They have no representation, no voice, and no vote in decisions shaping our collective future. Voice of Commons aims to change that. Launched as a Special Project of La Biennale di Venezia and led by architect and activist Giulia Foscari, founder of UNLESS, Voice of Commons challenges existing governance models by building a transdisciplinary platform at the intersection of art, science, policy, and technology. Through conversations hosted by Giulia Foscari with global changemakers – from Sylvia Earle to Christiana Figueres, Johan Rockström, and Kumi Naidoo – the podcast fosters Global Commons literacy, sparks imagination for just and sustainable futures, and calls to action for intergenerational justice. Part of a broader global advocacy initiative, the podcast is joined by the Speak-Up for the Commons campaign – inviting grassroots participation – and a Petition calling for the legal and political recognition of the Commons and the establishment of a Global Commons Assembly. All are catalysed from the Voice of Commons’ Planetary Embassy in Venice, where each day representatives from Indigenous communities, nation-states, or stateless nations take the stage to lend their voices to the Commons – building, together, a planetary Constituency to ensure a safe and operating space on Planet Earth for All-kind. Hosted by Giulia Foscari. Broadcast from the Voice of Commons’ Planetary Embassy, in Venice. Voice of Commons, a project by the agency for change UNLESS. Launched as a Special Project of the 19th Venice Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, under the Patronage of UNESCO, with the recognition of The European Space Agency and endorsed by United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. LISTEN FROM VENICE, FROM ORBIT, AND BEYOND. Sign the Petition voice-of-commons.org/petition Speak Up for the Commons by submitting voice-of-commons.org/speakup For more information voice-of-commons.org Follow us on IG @una_unless Write to us unless@una-unless.org Send us a Voice Note! https://www.speakpipe.com/voiceofcommons Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
What is the vital link between food systems, world hunger and the Atmospheric Commons? In this episode of Voice of Commons, host Giulia Foscari speaks with Martin Frick, Director of the UN World Food Programme’s Global Office in Berlin and co-founder of COPx, about how the systems meant to nourish life are accelerating planetary collapse. With hundreds of millions suffering from extreme food deprivation, this conversation explores ...
What futures are we failing to imagine for Antarctica? In this episode of Voice of Commons, host Giulia Foscari speaks with Klaus Dodds — geopolitical theorist, Antarctic scholar, and Voice of Commons Advisor — about the power of imagination in shaping geopolitics. Together, they explore how political imagination shapes territorial claims, environmental governance, and the legal ambiguity at the heart of the Antarctic Treaty. Recor...
Space is no longer the untouched frontier we once imagined. Crowded with satellites, threatened by debris, and on the verge of a new era of extraction, outer space faces a crisis of governance.
On International Moon Day, Voice of Commons host Giulia Foscari speaks with Michael Byers — Co-Director of the Outer Space Institute and author of Who Owns Outer Space? — to explore the urgent...
Who speaks for Antarctica? And what’s at stake when 58 nations meet behind closed doors to decide its future? In this special edition of Voice of Commons, host Giulia Foscari takes you inside the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (ATCM) – the once-a-year forum where the governance of the southernmost continent is shaped by consensus, on behalf of all humanity. Across two weeks of heated plenaries, quiet diplomacy, and une...
For our 10th episode, Voice of Commons responds to questions from our listeners about the origins of the project and UNLESS. We share a special live conversation held during the vernissage of the Venice Biennale between architects Giulia Foscari and Eva Franch i Gilabert. The dialogue frames the urgency, structure, and ambition of Voice of Commons and explores the project’s multi-scalar planetary mobilisation from high-level advoca...
What links the abyss of the deep sea to the southernmost ice shelves? Can open-source science protect Antarctica? And how urgent is the threat of deep-sea mining? In this episode of Voice of Commons host Giulia Foscari speaks with deep-sea biologist and polar explorer Antje Boetius. Broadcast just after the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice and ahead of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings in Milan, In this episode, we ...
What if a race could help rewrite the rules of ocean governance? In this episode of Voice of Commons, broadcast from the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, host Giulia Foscari speaks with Richard Brisius, President of The Ocean Race, about how one of the world’s toughest sailing competitions has evolved into a platform for ocean science, literacy, and rights. Together, they explore the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the Oce...
As the world gathers in Nice for the third United Nations Ocean Conference, Voice of Commons host Giulia Foscari sits down with Peter Thomson, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, for a wide-ranging and urgent conversation on the state of our blue Planet.
From the long-awaited ratification of the High Seas Treaty to the global effort to achieve the 30x30 target, and the critical delivery of SDG14 — L...
What can satellites teach us about the state of the planet — and the future of planetary governance? In this episode of Voice of Commons, host Giulia Foscari speaks with Simonetta Cheli – Director of Earth Observation at the European Space Agency (ESA), Head of ESA-ESRIN in Frascati and Advisor of Voice of Commons – about the power of satellites to monitor Earth’s systems and generate anticipatory intelligence. We explore the Cop...
What if nature had legal rights? In this episode of Voice of Commons, host Giulia Foscari speaks with environmental lawyer Cormac Cullinan - founder of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and the Wild Law Institute - about rethinking legal systems to recognize nature as a rights-bearing entity. From the courtroom to the cryosphere, we explore how the Rights of Nature movement is resh...
Christiana Figueres — former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, architect of the Paris Agreement, and internationally recognized Costa Rican climate leader — joins host Giulia Foscari for an urgent and inspiring conversation from Voice of Commons’ Planetary Embassy, in Venice. Together, they explore the architecture of planetary governance, the legacy and future of the Paris Agreement, and the bold shifts needed to safeguard the Gl...
The climate crisis is a human rights crisis — and addressing it demands urgent, systemic change. South African activist Kumi Naidoo — President of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative and former Secretary-General of Greenpeace International and Amnesty International — joins host Giulia Foscari for a galvanizing conversation on justice, activism, and the future of our Global Commons. Reflecting on decades of campaigni...
THE OCEAN'S VOICE
A Call to Protect our Ocean Commons.
"Her Deepness" Sylvia Earle — legendary oceanographer, President of Mission Blue, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, and Voice of Commons Ambassador — joins host Giulia Foscari for a powerful conversation from the Venice Biennale Vernissage. Drawing on thousands of hours beneath the Ocean surface, Sylvia transports us into a vibrant interspecies world...
PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Securing a Safe and Just Operating Space for the Global Commons.
In the inaugural episode of Voice of Commons, launched by UNLESS from the Planetary Embassy at the Venice Biennale, Earth system scientist and Voice of Commons Ambassador Johan Rockström joins host Giulia Foscari to explore the vital role of the Global Commons Antarctica, the Ocean, the Atmosphere, and Outer Space – in sustaining life on Earth....
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