“Ob als soziologisches Grundkonzept, politischer Kampfbegriff oder als utopisches Ideal – Gemeinschaft ist ein anschlussfähiger Leitbe- griff des Politischen in der Moderne.”
Juliane Spitta, Die Fiktion der Gemeinschaft (Arch+)
What is (the) “common”?
In the systems and societies we live in, we find it hard to understand the concept op “commons” – neither privat or public.
Here we are trying to gather different citations from different people, places and times in order to make different interpretations possible.
“Commoning practices importantly produce new relations between people. They encourage creative encounters and negotiations through which forms of sharing are organized and common life takes shape. Commoning practices, thus, do not simply produce or distribute goods but essentially create new forms of social life, form of life-in-common.”
Common Space, The City as Commons – Stavros Stavrides
“municipalism refers to political organization based on assemblies of neighbourhoods, practicing direct democracy, which would be organi- zed in a system of free communes or municipalities, as an alternative to the centralized state.”
What Is Municipalism And Why Is It Gaining Presence In Spain?
“Utopien zu entwickeln und diese auch offensiv einzufordern.”
Vom Recht auf Stadt zur radikalen Demokratie – Daniel Mullis,
Radical Cities – collectif engagée
“There is no “master plan” for municipalist movements, only local experiences and histories.
Rebel Cities, Radical Democracy in Radical Cities Magazine – collectif engagée
“The concept of autogestion does not provide a model, does not trace a line. It points a way, and thus to a strategy. […] the strategy must concretize autogestion and extend it to all levels and sectors.”
Henri Lefebvre 2011 [1979]: 780
” […] how could we join science and technology with human values? How could we agree upon common projects while respecting the singu- larity of individual positions? By what means, in the current climate of passivity, could we unleash a mass awakening, a new renaissance? Will fear of catastrophe be sufficient provocation?”
Remaking Social Practices in The Guattari Reader – Pierre-Félix Guattari
further reading:
Barcelona’s Experiment in Radical Democracy, Masha Gessen, New Yorker, August 2018
Das Recht auf Stadt (The Right to the City), Henri Lefebvre, 1968 (Le droit à la ville)
Dérive, Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung, N. 73, Nachbarschaft, 2018
Dérive Radiosendung, Hitze in der Stadt, Chrissi Wallmüller, August 2019
Designing the Urban Commons, Re-imagining spaces in London as places for collaboration, sharing and collective ownership
Gemeinschaft, herausgegeben von Alfred Schäfer, Christiane Thompson, Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag
Grenzen der Demokratie, Teilhabe als Verteilungsproblem, Stephan Lessnich, Reclam, 2019
Kosmoprolet, Zeitschrift & Blog
Theorien der Gemeinschaft. Zur Einführung, Lars Gertenbach, Henning Laux, Hartmut Rosa, David Strecker, 2010
Working with the 99%, Architecture as a political tool to produce social change, Ateliermob/Working with the 99%
Literature
An Atlas of Commoning – Orte des Gemeinschaffens, Arch+ Nr. 232, 2018
Die Fiktion der Gemeinschaft, Juliane Spitta
Common Space –The City as Commons, Stavros Stavrides
(deutsch: Die Stadt als Gemeingut, Eine Einführung)
Radical Cities, #6/7, collectif engagée, 2018 & Villes radicales (Radical Cities), collectif engagée, 2019
The Guattari Reader, Pierre-Félix Guattari, edited by Gary Genosko