Challenges, Opportunities and Contradictions around Three Case Studies Nicholas Anastasopoulos, PhD, Researcher National Technical University of Athens, Greece

1. MET Workshop
Ex-airports as metropolitan commons
1st IASC Thematic Conference on
the
URBAN COMMONS
Bologna, November 6, 2015
Nicholas Anastasopoulos, PhD, Researcher National Technical University of Athens, Greece
nanastasopoulos@arch.ntua.gr

2. portAir-
Α location on a coast or shore where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land.
In computing a port serves as an endpoint in an operating system for many types of
communication. It is not a hardware device, but a logical construct that identifies a service or
process. (as described for both this terms in Wikipedia)

3. All airports share some common infrastructures: runways, control towers, hangars, etc.
It is a kind of common language developed over time to serve the normal functions of
an airport. The former airports are equipped with this legacy and challenge which is
perceived as an invitation to examine the types of social infrastructure, and the
technical, legal and operational standards an a platform for something new. This
workshop presents the ex-airports as ports of ideas, social innovation centers and
production centers of visions for the futures of the city, as this could perhaps be
conceived by the citizens themselves.

4. Mariscal Sucre, QuitoElliniko, AthensTempelhof, Berlin
The three cases (Mariscal Sucre / Quito, Elliniko / Athens and
Tempelhof / Berlin) have common features and a particular
interest in relation to the future of cities:
In the center of the urban fabric of today due to urban sprawl
and a transient and uncertain period, which have been
experiencing regressions between scenarios of privatization or
public space.

5. http://commonstransition.org/
http://commonstransition.org/http://mappingthecommons.net/es/quito/
http://floksociety.org/

6. commonprivate public
Urban commons: a hybrid category
Former airports as metropolitan commons
Hypothesis 1
In search for a definition for the Metropolitan commons

7. Mariscal Sucre, Κίτο
201520131960
Ελληνικό, Αθήνα
1938 20011941 19931945
Tempelhof, Βερολίνο
1923 2007
2014
Three airports timeline

8. Commons
Private
Public
Participation
Maintenance
Decision-making
Commoning index

9. Mariscal Sucre, Quito
20152013
Elliniko, Athens
20011993
Tempelhof, Berlin
2007
2014
Commoning index in the former airports
Participation
Maintenance
Decision-making

10. Parque Bicentenario
Former airport
Mariscal Sucre, 2014

11. Former airport
Elliniko, 2014

12. Former airport
Tempelhof-
Berlin, 2014

13. Recent news on the three
former airports
http://www.dw.com/
Aeropuerto de Tempelhof en Berlín puede convertirse
en "el mayor refugio de refugiados 'de Alemania
Date 27.08.2015
Miles de católicos han llegado al parque Bicentenario para la misa
del Papa
http://www.eltiempo.com.ec Date 07.07.2015
Necesita ser asignado 12 acres en el antiguo aeropuerto griego para
la gestión de desechos
http://news247.gr
Date 03.06.2015

14. Can three disparate groups in three different locations to collaborate, discuss, share,
invent and propose a unifying theme under Local similar dilemmas?
Research questions and
working hypotheses
P2P practices regarding urban commons theories, examined through three case studies
are characterized by asymmetrical power and geopolitical dynamics in the process, form
the backdrop of a workshop in process.

15. Ecosystems and networks
Quito Berlin
Urbanists
Citizens
Students
Activists
Architects
Athens
Local communities
P2P
Legal

16. Mariscal Sucre, Quito Elliniko, Athens
Tempelhof, Berlin Governance research
Participatory design research
Social process research
Coordination hub at the local and the
transnational level
The METropolitan Commons Workshop

17. http://commonstransition.org/
http://commonstransition.org/
http://floksociety.org/
Quito local MET
Workshop
2&3 September 20015

18. http://commonstransition.org/
http://commonstransition.org/
http://floksociety.org/
Athens local
MET Workshop
1&2 November 20015

19. Thank you!
Mariscal sucre * Elliniko * Tempelhof
MET Workshop
Nicholas Anastasopoulos, PhD, Researcher National Technical University of Athens, Greece
nanastasopoulos@arch.ntua.gr

22. P2P practices regarding urban commons
theories, examined through three case studies
are characterized by asymmetrical power and
geopolitical dynamics in the process, form the
backdrop of this workshop.

24. Lines of work and research
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