An ethical question concerning the relationship between public space and public expression.

Which model, if any, promotes or stifles forms of social organic processes of appropriation?

A socially managed, planned one or a kind of entropic free market lessai faire one?
A socially managed space:

Three points: the over managed space
The over managed space. This is the public space that is very well kept, organised and controlled. It could be characterised as a socialist run space.

The under managed space is that which is left to it’s own devises. Lack of public services. It could be characterised as a free market space.

The space that is managed to promote participation and a kind of institutionalised appropriation. The paradox of over cooking in a good intention. We, the good, (architects, town planners, forward thinking town councils) want to promote appropriation and expression within peoples lives, but in doing so appropriation becomes institutionalised and negates what it promotes.

It Began One Day!

There we were, three of us. Fed up with the way things were going. Then some bright spark came and told us that there's a world out there, people like us that can't take it anymore and they too would want to share ideas about how to go on without fear. So here we are at the beginning, as is the only way...