Dziga Vertov, L'homme à la caméra, janvier 1929.

Dziga Vertov, L'homme à la caméra, janvier 1929.
La monteuse, les mains.

Peter Watkins, La Commune de 1870.

Peter Watkins, La Commune de 1870.

Friday 18 May 2007

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.

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