ways of commoning: share and collectivism in urban space

photos by Ma Ran&pelin from day laborer festival - 08.2012

Under hot summer and humidity, Kamagasaki area's inhabitants enjoy their street life. This area labelled as the most slum area and marked as a dangerous district. However, this neighborhood in Taishi in Osaka where I happened to live right now is the most vibrant urban space that I saw. This district is the home of daily workers, young people who has not much money, travelers, musician travelers, old prostitutes, cheap good food places which has good underground music in their back rooms...Overlayered and rhizomatic urban network create its own identity. Independent documentary activists groups, or artists-activists run spaces as Cocoroom are helping, mediating among the problems of poor and homeless people. Kamagasaki is bit a sad area sometimes, a real home and a place of simple happiness. The labor from old times is based on construction workers; the day laborer brokers are still continue. The police station in the corner of our street that watch (controls) the street and people. Among the little home food places (food places that the people transformed simply little places for selling food and beer), passing under the railway someone simply reach to the heart of ghetto what they call in mainstream urban. However, after crossing the guerrilla garden little food places that host traveler musicians lead you to the public festival organized by day laborer union. The three days festival in a open space hosts music&rock groups, traditional japanese music, activists documentaries, hiphop musicians who grew up in this neighborhood. Kamagsaki is another "just" urban space where spatial justice is negotiated under share and collectivism, commoning.

Talk hosted by Cocoroom on this saturday organized by URB and Kanayo-San:

水内です。
国際交流基金でトルコから短期滞在している特別研究員Pelin Tanさんの研究発表wo
URP International Colloquium（全ユニット）として実施します。

8月18日(土）　14時から16時
場所〒557‐0001
大阪府大阪市西成区山王1-15-11
COCOROOMです。

共催：都市研究プラザ、NPO法人こえとことばとこころの部屋

ふるってご参加下さい。

URP International Colloquium

Date: Saturday, August 18, 14:00 to 16:00
Venue: Cocoroom,

Speaker:
Pelin Tan (Guest researcher URP, The Japan Foundation Research Fellow)

Title:
Ways of Commoning: Share and Collectivism in Urban Space