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Eda Karaböcek 0927327 Spatial Design Minor Powerplay 09-12-2019

the gardens power

first encounter

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Who owns public space? Are we allowed to use public gardens for our own needs? Even if it’s in front of our homes? This project focuses on the topic of ownership and the acts of inhabiting space. A space which is taken care of by inhabitants, sometimes a groom goes over the sidewalk and the weeds between the tiles are being cleaned. This behavior creates ownership. To own something and ownership are not the same thing. In this case by occupying the space the feeling of ownership is being formed (Ham, 2015). The feeling of ownership gives the inhabitants control it allows them to gain power in public space and reclaim outdoor spaces. It still is a space where it is not clear who the owner is and who bears the responsibility because city governments are enforcing norms of behavior in public areas and in doing so allocating divide important resource to those citizens who choose to play by the rules (Garnett,2009). In a way it is a transferred responsibility through the municipality given to the inhabitants and can easily be taken away. The interventions by the inhabitants are temporary and should not grow into private space but shape the space between private and public. My project exhibits the different ways of inhabiting space and maps the future where our habits of claiming space takes over the city.

Ham (2015), Sander van der. “Van Wie Is de Stoep.” De Stoep, nai010, pp. 179–203 Garnett (2009), Nicole Stelle, Private Norms and Public Spaces, 18 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 183, http:// scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol18/iss1/7

A place that I always come by with the tram, on my way to the train station. There is this place that I never noticed until it became larger. There is this apartment. An apartment with a green, public area in front of the building. A place that you share with the inhabitants that live in the same building. Like the storage space in the basement and the staircase. In the corner of my eye, I noticed the corner of the building, this specific corner became enclosed. The residents who live on the first floor created space, a garden, an enclosed garden starting from their balcony that wraps around the corner of the house.

First encounter

A door, with a lock next to the main entrance of the apartment, will give you access to the garden. A parasol peeking from the top. I had a peek from the back and observed a swing, toys, and bikes. A peek that was caught by the camera that was on the corner of the building. On my way back home I come across the same place again. I noticed, only this area has a garden like this. The other entrances with a front green area are not enclosed like this one. So, this must be something that is not normal.

Is the public allowed to do this? Are we allowed to use a public garden for our own needs? Even if it’s in front of our apartment?

This made me question my first encounter with the garden.

second thoughts

Watched

Miniature world Camera Surveillance Present

A small world A space became our place A little too big sometimes We became the inhabitants We create social identification We create new encounters

Let us live like flowers Wild and beautiful

When public and private meets

Where do the boundaries start? Where do the boundaries stop?

When we meet there is tension We create A space to meet A space for comfort A safe space A meeting between home and street We need each other to function

The start Down the line Drawn line by line Giving directions and distances Marked by meters and bounds A continuous area The stop A closure Drawn line by line Giving direction of territory Marked by materials and signs A intermittent area

the gardens power

Understanding the power of gardens. The text, A new direction in garden history by Suzanna Patman gave me a more profound understanding of gardens and the space that they're in.

’’The ground we have is not a natural given but rather a political construction.’’

''The ground we have is not a natural given but rather a political construction.1'' This sentence in the text made me clear that the ground we have is indeed not natural, the ground our houses are built on, the ground we use and walk on is all divided with lines and translated in maps. It is not something that developed and produced by the people who live in the city over time. A garden at its simplest is a place that has been transformed by a creative human activity and human care.2 The text explores the history of the gardens and how the use of the gardens changed throughout the years. The image of the gardens we see now are most likely used to showcase something, like flowers, plants, and objects. In the early twentieth century gardens were used for food production; it was a symbol for surviving and it was something all the people in the city lived by. The meaning of the garden has changed, and it became something for the rich. Showcasing their plot of land with clean-cut plants and fencing to protect their space for intruders.

These days our population is increasing, and we need more land. Our housing concentrates on apartments or houses with very narrow backyards. It became harder for people to have a garden 3 .Is this the reason our incentive for this behavior of claiming space? ‘’Gardens are no longer seen only as existing in the enclosed, privately-owned space, are no longer simply an ‘extension of a home but are, at least in urban areas, becoming something that can be both cultivated by the individual and enjoyed by the collective.’’ 4

---------------------------------------------1 Patman Suzanne. “A new direction in garden history.” Garden History, vol. 43, no. 2, 2015, pp. 273–283., www.jstor.org/stable/24636254. 2 Patman Suzanne. “A new direction in garden history.” Garden History, vol. 43, no. 2, 2015, pp. Notes and Querris., www.jstor.org/stable/24636254. 3 Patman Suzanne. “A new direction in garden history.” Garden History, vol. 43, no. 2, 2015, pp. 275, www.jstor.org/stable/24636254. 4 Patman Suzanne. “A new direction in garden history.” Garden History, vol. 43, no. 2, 2015, pp. 281, www.jstor.org/stable/24636254.

a collection of quotes and notes from the research archive: ‘‘the acts of inhabiting space’’

the best of the archive issue 2019

The best of the archive

Eda Karaböcek 0927327 Spatial Design Minor Powerplay 09-12-2019

Kilian, Ted (1997), Public and Private, Power and Space, Rowman & Littlefield

Nicole S. Garnett,Private Norms and Public Spaces, 18 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 183 (2009-2010)

Choi, Taeyoon (2009) November 20, How to produce micro public space

Madipanour, Ali (2003), Public and Private Space of the City, Introduction

Ham, Sander van der. ‘‘De stoep in vogelvluch’’, De Stoep, nai010, 2015, pp. 17–43.