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2. Caravanserai
"Canning Town Caravanserai is a welcoming oasis hosted by locals, open to all visitors. It is a locally-driven public space bringing together trade, training, performance, a community garden, and a place to eat, drink and play. Mixing a café with art workshops, food stalls with performance spaces, and enterprise units with allotments, it will be hosted by locals and open to all. In short, a community space run by the community."
image/text: http://caravanserai.org.uk/our-story/
"Meanwhile London"
•Temporary public spaces competition•mayors of Newham & London•5yrs
http://www.newham.com/live/meanwhile_london_competition/meanwhile_london_competition/975,10,0,0.html
How will Canning Town look in 5
years?
Why not make the temporary spaces permanent?
Can there bea permanent temporariness?
Democracy or
"Ad-hocracy"?
Q: What Does Public Space Look Like Under "Adhocracy"?
Characteristics of an adhocracy:● highly organic structure[3]● little formalization of behavior[1][3]● job specialization not necessarily
based on formal training● a tendency to group the specialists in
functional units for housekeeping purposes but to deploy them in small, market-based project teams to do their work[3]
● a reliance on liaison devices to encourage mutual adjustment within and between these teams[3][4]
● low standardization of procedures[1]● roles not clearly defined[1]● selective decentralization[1]● work organization rests on specialized
teams[1]● power-shifts to specialized teams● horizontal job specialization[4]● high cost of communication[4]
(dramatically reduced in the networked age)
● culture based on non-bureaucratic work[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy
Alvin Toffler // Robert H. Waterman, Jr. // Joseph Grima // Jose Abasolo, Matias Echanove, Rahul Srivastava (URBZ) // Cany Ash (Caravanserai)
Image: http://urbz.net/unmediated-design-tool-house-city/
A: Ask...
"Adhocracy" at Istanbul Design Biennialehttp://istanbuldesignbiennial.iksv.org/adhocracy/