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    Mapping the Commons, Athens is a collective study, a contemporary reading and an open cartography of Athens and its special dynamic. In a difficult financial period in which the contemporary metropolis seems restless and vulnerable, the Hackitectura collective in collaboration with an interdisciplinary group of young researchers and students seeked for, examined and documented the points of the city where a new form of common wealth can be located. Seeing beyond the “public” and the “private”, new types of commons were mapped which were based on collectivity, sociability, open and free access, gift economy or peer to peer practices. During a seven day workshop a different image of the city was thus formed full of promises, but yet fluid and unstable. Although the new common resources and places that were located within the urban environment are outcomes of the knowledge and the ideas that the multitude of the metropolis possesses and shares, at the same time it was noted that the new common wealth can not easily escape cases of exploitation and appropriation. Contradictions and questions occurred while examining and processing the material of the workshop: How can the commons be secured? Why do they sometimes serve the interests of a new “creative” city? What role do they really play in times of a global financial crisis? How can the citizens re-appropriate the commons, and form through them a new type of resistance? The online collaborative map that was created and the audiovisual material accompanying it, aims through representative examples and case studies to comment on such issues, making clear the need for a re-invention of a new common experience and memory, which can only be born through collaboration and sharing.

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    Mapping the Commons, Athens is a collective study, a contemporary reading and an open cartography of Athens and its special dynamic. In a difficult financial period in which the contemporary metropolis seems restless and vulnerable, the Hackitectura collective in collaboration with an interdisciplinary group of young researchers and students seeked for, examined and documented the points of the city where a new form of common wealth can be located. Seeing beyond the “public” and the “private”, new types of commons were mapped which were based on collectivity, sociability, open and free access, gift economy or peer to peer practices. During a seven day workshop a different image of the city was thus formed full of promises, but yet fluid and unstable. Although the new common resources and places that were located within the urban environment are outcomes of the knowledge and the ideas that the multitude of the metropolis possesses and shares, at the same time it was noted that the new common wealth can not easily escape cases of exploitation and appropriation. Contradictions and questions occurred while examining and processing the material of the workshop: How can the commons be secured? Why do they sometimes serve the interests of a new “creative” city? What role do they really play in times of a global financial crisis? How can the citizens re-appropriate the commons, and form through them a new type of resistance? The online collaborative map that was created and the audiovisual material accompanying it, aims through representative examples and case studies to comment on such issues, making clear the need for a re-invention of a new common experience and memory, which can only be born through collaboration and sharing.

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    Mapping the Commons, Athens is a collective study, a contemporary reading and an open cartography of Athens and its special dynamic. In a difficult financial period in which the contemporary metropolis seems restless and vulnerable, the Hackitectura collective in collaboration with an interdisciplinary group of young researchers and students seeked for, examined and documented the points of the city where a new form of common wealth can be located. Seeing beyond the “public” and the “private”, new types of commons were mapped which were based on collectivity, sociability, open and free access, gift economy or peer to peer practices. During a seven day workshop a different image of the city was thus formed full of promises, but yet fluid and unstable. Although the new common resources and places that were located within the urban environment are outcomes of the knowledge and the ideas that the multitude of the metropolis possesses and shares, at the same time it was noted that the new common wealth can not easily escape cases of exploitation and appropriation. Contradictions and questions occurred while examining and processing the material of the workshop: How can the commons be secured? Why do they sometimes serve the interests of a new “creative” city? What role do they really play in times of a global financial crisis? How can the citizens re-appropriate the commons, and form through them a new type of resistance? The online collaborative map that was created and the audiovisual material accompanying it, aims through representative examples and case studies to comment on such issues, making clear the need for a re-invention of a new common experience and memory, which can only be born through collaboration and sharing.

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    Mapping the commons, Athens

    Pablo de Soto hackitectura.net After Crisis Seminar Universit IUAV di Venezia 4.6.2012

    image: Anti austerithy policies protest at Syntagma Square, Athens

    Inventing Alternatives: Commons as Exodus from late Capitalism

    Athens

    Common LANGUAGUE Actor EVERYONE

    Way COLLECTIVE CONSTRUCTION Conflict MEANING NORMALIZATION

    Common TOWARDS URBAN SAFETY Actor DEMOSTRATORS

    Way PROTEST Conflict ...

    Common FREE EDUCATION Actor STUDENTS

    Way PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION Conflict PRIVATIZATION OF EDUCATION

    Navarinou

    Common OPEN PUBLIC SPACES Actor LOCAL COMMUNITY

    Way
    PEACEFUL OCCUPATION AND BEAUTIFICATION

    Conflict STATE INTERVENTION AND SUPRESSION

    Common NATURAL SPACE Actor EVERYONE WHO USES THE SPACE

    Way ENJOYING LIFE, LIVING TOGETHER Conflict MUNICIPALITY POLICIES

    Common TRANSNATIONAL TIES AND SPACES Actor MIGRANTS LEGAL OR ILEGAL

    Way CREATION OF COMUNITIES Conflict MIGRANT LAW

    Common ANIMALS LIVING FREELY Actor ANIMALS THEMSELVES, PEOPLE WHO CARE

    Way FEEDING STRAY ANIMALS Conflict ABUSED PROPERTY OF ANIMALS

    Common
    EXTERIOR SURFACES AS COMMUNICATION

    Actor STREET ARTISTS, ANYONE WISHING TO BE ONE

    Way GRAFFITI, TAGGING, STENCILS Conflict ANTIGRAFFITI LAW, VANDALISM

    Common CYCLING FRIENDLY CYCLE Actor CYCLISTS, ROLLER BLADERS, SKATERS

    Way ORGANISED BIKE RIDES Conflict URBAN DESIGN FLAWS

    Common FREE ENTERTAIMENT IN PUBLIC SPACE Actor EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THE ACTION

    Way STREET PARTIES Conflict COMMERCIAL ENTERTAINMEN

    Common ANGER Actor DEMONSTRATORS POLICE OFICERS

    Way PROTEST, VANDALISM Conflict SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

    Common FREE WIFI Actor GEEKS AND HACKERS

    Way HARDWARE AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING Conflict TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAW

    Common FREE SOFTWARE Actor VARIOUS DEVELOPERS

    Way UNPAID PROGRAMMING Conflict PRIVATE COMPANIES COPYRIGHT

    Common FREE INFORMATION AND MEDIA EXCHANGE Actor NETWORK USERS

    Way FILE SHARING Conflict PIRACY, COPYRIGHT

    Common OBJETCS FOR FREE Actor FREE CYCLE COMMUNITY

    Way OFFERING OBJETCS TROUGH WEB Conflict CONSUMERISM

    Common COMMON MEMORY Actor URBAN MULTITUDE

    Way INTERMEDIATED OF LIVED MEMORY Conflict MEMORIES OF DESTRUCTION OR DECONSTRUCTION

    Utilizar los edicios del Gobierno, la banca y la iglesia para alojar a las personas sin hogar.

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