my presentation about ahocracy and temporary bottom up urbanism in Canning Town, Borough of Newham, East London

1. Canning Town
Canning Town Station
Caravanserai
Surrounding Neighborhood & High Street
"The Place"

2. 1. Canning Town Station
& Bus Terminal

4. 2. Caravanserai
"Canning Town Caravanserai is a
welcoming oasis hosted by locals, open
to all visitors. It is a locally-driven public
space bringing together trade, training,
performance, a community garden, and a
place to eat, drink and play. Mixing a
café with art workshops, food stalls with
performance spaces, and enterprise
units with allotments, it will be hosted by
locals and open to all. In short, a
community space run by the
community."
image/text: http://caravanserai.org.uk/our-
story/

5. "Meanwhile London"
•Temporary public spaces competition
•mayors of Newham & London
•5yrs
http://www.newham.
com/live/meanwhile_london_competition/m
eanwhile_london_competition/975,10,0,0.
html

7. Video: Crossing The Street

8. Video / Interview: Cany Ash
http://caravanserai.org.uk/caravanserai-on-site-teaser/

9. Spatial Analysis

12. Walls, Boundaries, Porosity

14. 3. Newham Surroundings

17. Rathbone Market vs.
Caravanserai

18. 4. The Place

24. Why not make
How will Canning the temporary
Can there be
a permanent
temporariness?
spaces
Town look in 5 permanent?
years?
Democracy
or
"Ad-hocracy"
?

25. Q: What Does http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy
Public Space Characteristics of an adhocracy:
● highly organic structure[3]
Look Like ● little formalization of behavior[1][3]
Under "Adhocracy"? ● job specialization not necessarily
based on formal training
A: Ask... Alvin Toffler // Robert H. Waterman, ● a tendency to group the specialists in
functional units for housekeeping
Jr. // Joseph Grima // Jose Abasolo, purposes but to deploy them in small,
Matias Echanove, Rahul Srivastava market-based project teams to do
(URBZ) // Cany Ash (Caravanserai) their work[3]
● a reliance on liaison devices to
"Adhocracy" at Istanbul Design Bienniale encourage mutual adjustment within
http://istanbuldesignbiennial.iksv.org/adhocracy/ and between these teams[3][4]
● low standardization of procedures[1]
● roles not clearly defined[1]
● selective decentralization[1]
● work organization rests on specialized
teams[1]
● power-shifts to specialized teams
● horizontal job specialization[4]
● high cost of communication[4]
(dramatically reduced in the
networked age)
● culture based on non-bureaucratic
work[4]
Image: http://urbz.net/unmediated-design-tool-house-city/