Category Open source – the commons
Appropriation of public space on and offline
Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre are interested in the production of space and practices in everyday life and how actors challenge the spaces where they spend their everyday life. They believe in people’s creative potential and argue that users of public spaces are actively creating culture as well as urban space. According to them, […]
Uncolonized public space
I grew up in the local library because my father was a librarian. It was my second living room. The old building in the center of Ekenäs in southern Finland was for many a sanctuary. When you walked through the cranky door the smell of a wood burning fire gave you a feeling of comfort. […]
Intense Proximity
A couple of media clips have made me think about our shared public space recently. Intense Proximity the art triennial exhibition 2012 in Paris: Intense Proximity is about “sharing space, social experience, and aesthetic antagonism…without resorting to the strident pieties of identity politics, nativist self-regard, ethnocentrism, and myths of national cultural cohesion”. The proximity suggested is the public’s relationship to the […]
Banksy’s Punk mom
This new artwork of Banksy fascinates me. It comprises of so many symbols and meanings. The black flag, in the picture with its anarchist A is a well known symbol for anarchy. The O around it stands for order. Together they stand for “Anarchy is the mother of Order”. Wikipedia informs me : “The uniform blackness of the […]
Graffiti och nolltolerans
Jag har funderat mycket på nolltoleransregeln som bl.a. Helsingfors hade en längre tid när det gäller graffiti så väl som “klotter”. Nu har Helsingfors luckrat upp sin policy och det var på tiden. I Sverige är man intresserad och imponerad av Paavo Arhinmäkis tankar om nolltolerans i Kulturradion Finlands kulturminister möter svenska politiker i graffitidebatt. […]
Fenomenet graffiti
Läste just Ny tids Gråa väggen är en möjlighet, tänkte graffitimålaren – tack Lolo! Jag älskar välgjorda graffitimålningar och har själv varit på upptäcktsfärder i London för att hitta främst Banksys graffiti. Har också själv varit verksam som gerillastickare/street stickare/graffitastickare/craftivism på Aura Street market. GO STREET ART! Street art utopias Joel Backström hänvisar i Ny tid artikeln i […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 