BOOK: ARCHITECTURE FROM PUBLIC TO COMMONS

Incredibly happy to share Architecture from Public to Commons.

The book provides an urgent framework and collective reflection on understanding how to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and politics of the commons and practices of commoning. Architecture from Public to Commons opens a dialogue with the scales of the commons, the limits of language for fluid identities, the practices of architecture as an institution, the design of objects for shared value, land protocols that explore alternatives to profit-seeking, and spirited conversations about revolting against architectural labor. Specific chapters also explore the boundaries of Blackness across the Atlantic, water cycles in depleted territories, indigenous women-led territorial and human rights cases, climate change accidental commons, and the active search for racial justice with design and place. Contributions range from theoretical and historical essays to current case studies of on-the-ground practices in the US, the Middle East, Europe, and Central and South America.

What commons, for what socialnesses? This is the question this book addresses. This convenes a specific mode of inquiry that characterizes a new network of researchers and thinkers gathered in this volume, who are gaining a growing voice in the field of critical architectural practices.

Words from the Preface by Andrés Jaque, Dean and Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

What commons, for what socialnesses?, Andrés Jaque

Introduction

Architecture Under a Commons Lens, Marcelo López-Dinardi

Institutions

The Scale of Commons: Thresholds Infrastructures, Pelin Tan

A Language Act: Making Language with and for Fluid Identities, Amira Hanafi

Within and Beyond Walls, Marina Otero Verzier in conversation with Marcelo López-Dinardi

Common Goods: Reanimation of Lost Industrial Design Objects in Allende’s Chile, Fernando Portal

In Land We Trust?, Nandini Bagchee

la mesa, la olla, las hojas
A conversation on the revolts of spatial-doings beyond-against and beyond architectural labor, coopia

Territories

Black Spatial Intonation, Emanuel Admassu 

Woven Underground, Conflicting Ground, Luciana Varkulja

Unearthing and Reversing: Exhausting the Water Cycle, Linda Schilling Cuellar

Design in Participatory Justice Processes: The Sepur Zarco Case of Guatemala, Elis Mendoza

From Accidental Commons to Collectives of Redistribution, Janette Kim

Design Justice: Power and Place, Bryan Lee Jr.

Postface

MAKING THE PUBLIC–COMMONS: An Installation and Conversations Marathon, Marcelo López-Dinardi

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