Diasporic agencies
it seems like the city is unable to accommodate for real difference.
Some reference I will be using for this thematic will include commoning,
Can find the books here - in pdf broken down by chapters
Ade Darmawan, a member of ruang rupa wrote about how the maintence and rental of spaces are also a determining factor of where to gather and how the gathering is designed or a consequence of certain social conditions:
“such meetings most often took place in the living room, since it is the largest room in most spatial designs of a typical indoensian home. all the groups above used a home as the starting point and the center of their activities, altering and adapting living space as a public space, converting the living room into a meeting space and exhibition space; and the bedrooms into working spaces or studios, the library and a space for archives. Typically it is a rented house. There are practical reasons behind the choice of a rented house as a working place: these are easy to find and the rents are affordable. As such, an initiative’s space has a better chance of surviving financially. The lease usually applies for a year and the rent is paid with money collectived fromt he members of the group. The rented house is often also used to serve the various combined intrests of the group, as a living and working space. Thus, the house can have two functions: as a space for living and a space for working and gathering.”p56
“most groups choose a working or middle-class housing area, or mixed areas with residences and small to medium businesses - secular areas with a melting pot of people from various backgrounds. A mixed area is particularly suitable because it is also a place for diverse kinds of independent enterprises”
“Meetings between groups of artists and local residents in spatial contexts have generated certain styles of artistic approaches and methods,…bring together local residents and the artists’ spaces have become a natural process.”
“The festival form has a strong resonance in the collective memory of society as an artistic and social form that is tradition in many places.”
“to seize a space is also to seize a public”