| | As an online resource of best practice in the public realm, innovative, inspiring, and challenging projects have been selected from around the world to reflect The Art of Common Space mission to influence the future of public realm development. Designers and artists have contributed their material, thoughts and points for discussion to further the international and multicultural debate, creating a virtual 'commons' of creative exchange. | |  |  Does common space exist in a fast growing African city such as Douala?
Emma Marcello, former LANS Project Co-ordinator, attended the Saloin Urbain Douala to participate in activities and explore the idea of common space through artists and cultural practitioners working, living, or visiting Douala, Cameroon.
Read More > | |  What is common for people living between cultures?
Guillermo Gomez Peña and La Pocha Nostra
Workshops led by a network of thinkers and performance artists such as Gomez Pena investigating the US-Mexico border identity crisis and its confrontations.
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|  What is common in places where social and political conflict shapes public spaces
Helena Producciones Performance Festival of Cali
Biennale Festival of Performance in the city of Cali, Colombia where seminars, exhibitions and city interventions engage the city building that react to a sensor located in a homeless shelter.
Read More > |  Creating a common social responsibility towards homelessness
Alfredo Jaar, Lights in the City, 1999
Public project consisting of interactive lights located in the cupola of the old Parliament building that react to a sensor located in a homeless shelter.
Read More > |  How does extending the ownership of footage from close circuit televisions change both public and pricate spaces?
Shaina Anand, Khirkee Yaan, 2006
Close circuit TV installation
Read More > |  Deconstructing art practices that involve social enagement as their common methodology
Gasworks, Disclosures March – May 2008
Works by artists such as The People Speak, Shaina Annand, Neil Cummings among others.
Read More > | |  Recreating disappearing landscapes to reveal culutral commonalities
Dionisio Gonzales 2006
Arquitetura da sobra: A cidade subexposta - C Prints
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|  Creating shared authorship of public commissions
Gayle Chong Kwan, Journey to the Centre of the Earth 2007-2008 - A public photographic project in collaboration with Borough Market traders, London Underground Staff, Roast restaurant wokers and Southwark College catering students.
Read More > |  Can public spaces be converted into private places through digital technology?
Blast Theory, Rider Spoke, 2007
Electronic game mounted on bikes to navigate the city and reveal personal secrets
Read More > | |  Can we create an eternal space that will belong to everyone?
This Public Domain, by Amy Balkin 2006
An on-going project that aims at creating an 'anti-ownership' legal document that declares a piece of land to belong to humanity forever.
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| |  Can we create the sense of a shared and common future?
Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) 2008, Curated by Taru Elfving and Rickard Borgström. An Annual festival in which the community of Lofoten work with artists and researchers to engage in cultural activities which aim to develop a sustainable future for the area.
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|  Can common space be created through technology in relation to our environment?
Katie Paterson, V A T N A J O K U L LX (the sound of), 2008 - Call a mobile phone located in a glacier and listen to it melt on +44 (0) 7757001122
Read More > |  What and where is common space in communities like Shanty towns?
Shanty Towns Sounds, 2003
Carolina Caycedo - Sound archive created in collaboration with habitants of various Bogoton Shanty Towns.
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