Following the logic of the neocapitalistic paradigm and the idea of privatization, people have been putting fences around the commons declaring “this is mine”, excluding users, consumers and students by demanding entering fees and credits in order to have access to a space that should remain common. The intellectual property law is supporting and protecting corporations and institutions in order to manage creative flows of knowledge and ideas as scarce products that can be traded at the competitive market place. The legal exclusion is often executed by technical devices that we may understand as electronic fences for controlling the regulation of social access of the once common space. Formal practice for the Commons explore the practices, strategies and protocols trying to open breaches in the fences and reclaim a common space for knowledge production and sharing.
Casa Robino
Shared Hospitality Excavations
