The unprecedented global economic, environmental and health crisis, we are now facing has unveiled the fragility of capitalism as an extractive system. What is presented is a counter position; a new imaginary of how we might cohabit livable futures in (radical) peripheries that nurture a “good life”: a " way of life" that is supportive rather than exploitative. The work challenges conventional “market” led ideals of what value is, where it lies and whom it serves. Inhabiting the Commons is premised on a relocalised approach to autonomy. This requires stronger municipal and co-operative/mutualist involvement in reformulating land ownership and procurement models, and institutional arrangements. To this end, the work is prescient in calling for more decentralised responses to issues of food, care, education and employment security. The “good life” is motivated by design-led thinking that questions and rethinks the potential of peripheral areas to generate spatial and institutional change in Barking and beyond. Students: Nella Abi Khalil Constanza Carrillo Marlene Ortiz Rivas Yi Jiang Xi Yang Daisuke Yoshida Jingyi Xu Yaozhong Zhang Lingxi Zhou Tutors: Jorge Fiori Elena Pascolo Giorgio Talocci Special thanks: Julian Siravo of autonomy.org