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Book SynopsisThis book directly links the notion of the commons with different design praxes, and explores their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications. It draws out material conditions in four areas of design interest: social design, commons and culture, ecology and transdisciplinary design. As a collection of positions, the diversity of arguments advances the understanding of the commons as both concepts and modes of thinking, and their material translation when contextualised in the domain of design questions. In other words, it moves abstract social science concepts towards concrete design debates. This text appeals to students, researchers and practitioners working on design in architecture, architecture theory, urbanism, and ecology.
Table of Contents1. Introduction
Gerhard Bruyns and Stavros Kousoulas
Part I Design, the Commons and the Social
2. Commoning as a Material Engagement of Resistance: The Struggle to Save the Albanian National Theater
Dorina Pllumbi
3. AutoCostruzione-SelbstBau: Design as a Practical Knowledge Translation Process
Maria Reitano and Nikolaus Gartner
4. Scaling Out, Up and Deep: Understanding the Sustainment and Resilience of Urban Commons
Chun Zheng
5. Alignments of Architecture and Commoning in Tai O Village: Architecture Critique and Fields of Adversity
Daniel Elkin, Chi-Yuen Leung and Xiao Lu Wang
Part II Design, the Commons and Culture
6. Persistent Modeling of the Built: A Collective Experiment Merging Structural Preservation and Digital Design Between Academia and Industry
Frank Bauer and Lasse Sehested Skafte
7. The Commons in African Spatial Production: A Critical Review of Geographies of Power
Gert van der Merwe
8. Expressing Urban Commons: Architectural Ambiguity in the Construction of an Improvisational Future
Nicholas Frayne
Part III Design, the Commons and Ecology
9. Intriguing Human-Waste Commons: Praxis of Anticipation in Urban Agroecological Transitions
Markus Wernli
10. The Secondary Use Group: Unlocking Waste as a Common Pool of Resources in the 1970sPiero Medici
11. Reclaiming the Habitat: Food, Fire and Affordance in Designing and Living the Urban
Liana Psarologaki and Stamatis Zografos
Part IV Design, the Commons and Transdisciplinarity
12. Design and Commons: A Lacanian Approach
Dora Karadima
13. ‘Matters of Care’ in Spaces of Commoning: Designing In, Against and Beyond Capitalism
Katharina Moebus
14. Design as Commoning: Drawing Together with Care
Contingent Collective (Lőrinc Vass, Roy Cloutier and Nicole Sylvia)
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