Dr Miseong Cho is a senior researcher of Mosim & Salim Research Institute and a guest lecturer at Seoul National University. After spending many years working as an educator in alternative schools in Korea, she received her master’s degree with a research dissertation titled: “A qualitative case study on forming and learning process of a community for energy transition initiative.”(2016, SNU). Her doctoral thesis “Citizen participation and transformative learning in energy transition: the case of a zero energy housing complex" (2020, SNU). Her main research interests include climate change education, scientific-technological citizenship, deliberative democracy in cooperatives. Recently, she has been contemplating how to incorporate the philosophy of the life movement into Commons movement aimed at overcoming the current climate and ecological crisis.