Reclaiming public space as commons: learning from Latin American movements
Authors
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Stavros Stavrides
National Technical University of Athens
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8606-2015
Abstract
The text proposes to understand public space as capable of becoming a common space when the rules of its governance challenge those who own the space, not only to appropriate it, but to open it up for everyone's use. This possibility is linked to a reinvention of collaboration and a way of exercising "commoning".
Keywords:
public spaceReferences
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