Category: Photos & Videos

Language

Language like affects and gestures, is for the most part common, and indeed if language were made either private or public — that is, if large portions of our words, phrases, or parts of speech were subject to private ownership or public authority — than language would lose its powers of expression, creativity, and communication. M. Hardt, A. Negri, Commonwealth

Street Party

WHAT STREET PARTY? is an open, Athens-based, guerilla, non-profit, wiki collective. The collective is interested into Guerilla street-parties as an action of public space reclaiming, reunion, expression, creation, communication, experimentation, music vibration, body vitalization. During these parties, a big dancing crowd establishes a route in the city, stops in predefined spots and interacts with the citizens in an effort to regain the city space.

Freecycle

Freecycle group is a web – based group, open to all who want to donate or request objects for free. It works locally at a global level (each city in every country forms a new individual network). Against the perpetual procedure of consuming and disposal, which results in aggregation of several tons of used materials, the group suggests donation and recycling.

Navarinou Park

The Navarinou Park, also known as the parking park is a free self-managed space in Exarcheia – an area which is a centre of social movements and alternative cultural practices since the 1970s. The ground actually belongs to TEE, which first was to host its offices, later it was to become a square as part of an exchange with the Municipality of Athens, and finally it turned out to become an open air parking space since 1990. In 2008 the lease was terminated and the issue of its construction was raised provoking reactions by local groups. On the 7th of March 2009 a multitude of people (including groups and individuals) responded to a digital call for collective action and occupied the space demanding the transformation of the parking into a park. Guerilla gardening started right away. The park has become a self-organised, anti-hierarchical and anti-commercial space with an open assembly. The park is actually a place of gathering, creation, emancipation, gaming and resistance. It aims to become a park beyond profit and property, functioning as a space of play,assembly and communication, creativity, exchange and activism beyond barriers of age, origin, education, social and financial status.

How to tag your entries!

The photo contains the rules for your entries and below you can view which tags you can use and are considered valid!

CATEGORIES: natural / cultural / public space / digital

TAGS :      squat,    park,     garden,     beach,      neighborhood,     immigrants, transport,     bicycle,     camping,     animals,     social_movement,     social,         self_organized,     protest,     happening,     action,     guerilla,     education,       university,     art,         culture,     music,     theater,     bar,     cinema,      exhibitions,      projections,    street_art,     open_source,     common_digital_info,     Linux,       p2p,     sharing,      reuse,      fair_trade,      market,     love

Remember!

  • The route of your “tag thinking” should go from general to specific (e.g . public_space, squat, social_movement)
  • When your tag is more than one word, always put an underscore ( e.g. street_art) between the words.

Research Map Team

The research team has been formed and is investigating how they will work on the categories of commons. Their duties are to find further media (photos, videos) and documentation for the entries that have been made on the map. Additionally they have to organize the entries according to categories, while always taking into consideration the mapping parameters.  The 12 basic categories will have to be distinguished, in order to produce the 3-min videos.