Design Commons

This 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.

Fills the scientific gap in theorizing the social conditions of design Recommends solutions in the face of the conflicts between commoning and design Defines operative theories, concepts and frameworks that impact design thinking

Autorentext

Dr. Gerhard Bruyns is an architect and urbanist. He is Associate Professor, School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research deals with aspects of spatial morphology and its impact on both the formal expression of the city and the societal conditions that are compressed into the urban landscapes of Asia. He has published on design strategies, spatial commoning, and geopolitical issues linked to spatial practices and urban morphology.

Dr. Stavros Kousoulas is Assistant Professor of Architecture Theory in the Faculty of Architecture of TU Delft. He has studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and at TU Delft. He received his doctoral title cum laude from IUAV Venice participating in the Villard d' Honnecourt International Research Doctorate. He has published and lectured in Europe and abroad. He is a member of the editorial board of Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal since 2014.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- Part I: Design, the Commons and the Social.- 2. Commoning as a Material Engagement of Resistance: The Struggle to Save the Albanian National Theater.- 3. AutoCostruzione-SelbstBau: Design as a Practical Knowledge Translation Process.- 4. Scaling Out, Up and Deep: Understanding the Sustainment and Resilience of Urban Commons.- 5. Alignments of Architecture and Commoning in Tai O Village: Architecture Critique and Fields of Adversity.- 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.- 7. The Commons in African Spatial Production: A Critical Review of Geographies of Power.- 8. Expressing Urban Commons: Architectural Ambiguity in the Construction of an Improvisational Future.- Part III: Design, the Commons and Ecology.- 9. Intriguing Human-Waste Commons: Praxis of Anticipation in Urban Agroecological Transitions.- 10. The Secondary Use Group: Unlocking Waste as a Common Pool of Resources in the 1970s.- 11. Reclaiming the Habitat: Food, Fire and Affordance in Designing and Living the Urban.- Part IV: Design, the Commons and Transdisciplinarity.- 12. Design and Commons: A Lacanian Approach.- 13. 'Matters of Care' in Spaces of Commoning: Designing In, Against and Beyond Capitalism.- 14. Design as Commoning: Drawing Together with Care Contingent Collective.