<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> |