Common Space Model
This is what we want to achieve.
Our Common Space mission aims to transform our cities into a common resource that serves the empowerment and development of cooperative forms of working and socialising by:
• providing well-equipped shared spaces and infrastructure for activities
• creating flexible, affordable access
• encouraging creative development and wellbeing
• contributing to a resource-efficient way of life
• creating meeting points for social exchange
• leveraging digitization and innovation for broader positive change.
We started the Common Space Project to develop solutions for the pressing challenges of our time. Change of action also includes the change of our built environment. The transformation to a cooperative and sustainable economy must succeed in order to create liveable and resilient places. Architecture and design will make an important contribution to this transformation process. This begins with the design of participatory processes that lead to the implementation of concrete, spatial solutions and extends to questions of organisation and administration. In addition to the integration of technological innovations, this requires cultural and social change – transformations are generated at different levels: from the individual to society, from the planner to the institutional planning tool.
The mission of the Common Space project is ambitious – the goal is to establish sustainable places for the common good! Following the idea of the commons, the Common Space Model conceives our cities as common property. The city becomes a communal resource that is built and developed together. Common Spaces, that represent the basic elements of our everyday life such as producing, working, learning and socialising, are successively created. They create a new framework and new values for our life together: an inclusive culture that promotes and strengthens cooperation, participation and exchange.
