The Commoning Manifesto
Urban Housing
Location: St Andrews Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow
Year: 2023
The housing landscape in Scotland is one dominated by macro-economic interests and speculative markets. Defining housing as a solely profitable commodity has becomes a fundamental trigger of the housing crisis and needs to be re-commodified in order to subvert the status quo.
In the search for creating more equitable ways of living, the co-operative model presents a more sustainable way of generating local systems of solidarity, social capital, as well as addressing inequalities related to land ownership, access to resources and skills development.
By harnessing the existing power of our communities, implementing a contemporary form of the ‘commons’ can serve as an active platform for supporting and aiding political and urban change from within the system.
Instead of entertaining speculative property markets, the micro-political agency of co-operative practice can transform housing into a matter of necessity and resource for the common good.
Urban Housing
Location: St Andrews Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow
Year: 2023
Micro-Political Agency for Pollokshields
The housing landscape in Scotland is one dominated by macro-economic interests and speculative markets. Defining housing as a solely profitable commodity has becomes a fundamental trigger of the housing crisis and needs to be re-commodified in order to subvert the status quo.
In the search for creating more equitable ways of living, the co-operative model presents a more sustainable way of generating local systems of solidarity, social capital, as well as addressing inequalities related to land ownership, access to resources and skills development.
By harnessing the existing power of our communities, implementing a contemporary form of the ‘commons’ can serve as an active platform for supporting and aiding political and urban change from within the system.
Instead of entertaining speculative property markets, the micro-political agency of co-operative practice can transform housing into a matter of necessity and resource for the common good.
