Design for Cultural Commoning explores the role of design-based thinking and practice in the construction of cultural common spaces.
Torange Khonsari shows how the commons in the cultural domain can be a driver towards addressing a range of critical community and societal concerns, from citizen apathy and lack of trust, to extractive production of cultural objects exhausting our earth’s resources and exacerbating the gap between the powerful and the powerless. A rich and engaging volume, it combines theory, methodology and practice to bridge disciplinary boundaries, from commons, urbanism, psychology, politics, anthropology and sociology, with practical design methodology.
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: NETWORK SOCIETY AND COMMONS
1.1 Network society as context
1.2 Autonomous commons
1.3 Neighbourhoods as space for production of commons
1.4 Local resources as common good
1.5 Chapter conclusion
CHAPTER 2: MOBILISING THE COMMONS
2.1 Obstacles to engagement
2.2 Designing Transformational Events
2.3 Transformational events as temporary commons
2.4 Design Model 1: Intimate Events - Temporary Commons that Host
2.5 Design Model 2: Gatherings as Public Events
2.6 Design Model 3: People’s assemblies
2.7 Temporary commons for community mobilisation
2.8 Chapter conclusion
CHAPTER 3: MATERIALITY AND COMMON GOOD AESTHETICS
3.1 Common Good Cultural Objects
3.2 Introducing Aesthetic Quality for Cultural Commons
3.3 Common Good Aesthetic
3.4 Aesthetic Property: Tangible Materiality
3.5 The ‘Actant’: Objects with Agency
3.6 Aesthetic Attitude: Practitioner in Production
3.7 Chapter conclusion
CHAPTER 4: LEARNING AS CULTURAL COMMONING – LEARNING COMMONS
4.01 Framing learning in the commons
4.02 Expanding the Learning Commons
4.03 Civic Education and UK policy
4.04 Case Study: The School for Civic Action
3.7 Chapter conclusion
CHAPTER 5: COMMONS ORGANISATIONS
5.1 Why Commoning Practice?
5.2 Case Study: Public Works
2.03 Relational Theory for Commoning
2.03.01 Relational ethics of care
2.04 Knowledge and Knowing for Commoning
2.05 Boundary Commoning – permeable access
2.05.01 Knowledge beyond disciplinary boundaries/enclosures
2.06 Labour in Commoning – negotiation between reciprocal, waged and intangible labour forms
2.07 Commoning Through Design Intervention
2.08 Constituting/instituting the cultural commons
CHAPTER 6: CONCLUDING CHAPTER
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