EDITORIAL DETAILS
Melissa Harrison (b. 1989 New Zealand) is an architect, movement artist, writer, and facilitator whose work engages with critical spatial practices, commoning, and embodied experience. She completed her doctoral research at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2023, where she explored community-based practices of commoning space and pedagogies of (un)learning under the supervision of Stavros Stavrides (NTUA), Penny Koutrolikou (NTUA), and Jesko Fezer (HFBK). Woven throughout her research and practice are the narratives and modes by which we navigate difference towards more just futures.
Design by Melissa Harrison
ISBN: 979-12-5713-003-9
TECHNICAL DETAILS
– limited edition, riso print, 20 copies
– 24 pages, A5
– includes essays, movement scores, vingettes
– language: English
The handbook outlines concepts related to (urban) common(s) and commoning, cut with vignettes and improvisational scores. The shape of an idea is woven by different fragments or invitations to perceive and practice our selves, socialities, and spaces in novel ways; unraveling the modes by which we (un)consciously shape and are shaped by one another, the material environment, and planetary living matter as a whole.
The scores offer prompts to expand the field of socio-spatial commoning and think about/with the body — alongside its entanglements with other bodies, human and non-human — on which our own bodies depend. Through these embodied modes of navigating visibility and audibility, resonance and refraction, collectivity and retreat, we might feel around for the gestures and the slippages of commoning that reveal care-full pasts, presents, and futures.