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4.4.5 Public enemy, private enemy

<Usman>There is a kind of conventional understanding of public and private.
We are now in private (we sitting are in his living room), and out there (showing
the window) is public. But actually people can hear us, people sniff WIFI net-
works, anyone outside, possibly corporations or governments can know full well
what’s going on in here. The notion of privacy is irrelevant. At the same time we
go in the so-called “public space” actually what we can do and how we do it, who
we do it with, is totally set up by a set of rules and regulations. Public space itself
is actually owned not by us, it is not owned by the public, it is owned by some
other kind of organisation. So in a sense public space doesn’t exist.</Usman>
<Cesar>If you start building something under the bridge, will people destroy
it?<Cesar>
<Tony>Yeah, yeah</Tony>
<Cesar>Who will destroy? </Cesar>
<Tony>Police, council, all types of people, passers-by, drunk people.</Tony>
<Cesar>Tony the homeless needs a home. Tony the homeless is able to build his
home in public space. But Tony isn’t allowed to build a space he could ever qualify
his own in public space. If we build an open architecture in public space it cant be
claimed by anyone, and consequently none of the participant could be granted as
responsible of what happen in that space?</Cesar>