A commons is a social system. Affective, inclusive artfulness is essential if domination is to be held at bay--domination that can arise from inside and outside the neighborhood. Multiple perspectives are the substance of barricades against domination. These perspectives must openly and ongoingly include feelings, needs, and feasible possibilities. The art is the harmonizing of individuality and solidarity--in artful participation.
There will always be messy disagreements. These must be resolved together, not by force nor by outsiders.
Ashby's idea of requisite variety provides the logic for diversity--the neighborhood's model for shared problem solving and design must be as complex as the problems to be solved and that requires the participation of all the situated knowers. The each hold a piece of the dynamic complex neighborhood situation.