Ricerc@Sapienza

For a long time, Informal learning suffered a mechanical and simplified defi-
nition, as a category opposed to formal learning: it was in fact intended at a
space-time level, as a complex of outdoor activities, carried out outside school
walls, and outside a certifiable path.
If in the field of vocational training validation systems have been arranged at
European level by CEDEFOP (2017) to test and to certificate skills and abilities
acquired through individual experience, however, many third sector initiatives,

In this chapter, Cultural Commons are placed within sociological aesthetics to grasp this emerging social form's imagery. A series of questions revolve around the issue: Do commons reveal of the representation of collective life? From which imaginary do they emerge? What subjective orientation do they bring? Why, at some point, they become an object of interest and debate? Since Cultural Commons are material, immaterial and imaginary spaces, we will consider them tension to re-space social experience.