The “How to Gestaltungsberatung” online tutorial, developed in 2019 for the Hamburg Open Online University, provides insight into the working methods and thinking space of Public Design Support. See ➝.
See for example the lecture “The Right to Design” by Henric Benesch and Onkar Kular, in Parse no. 12 (Autumn 2020), ➝.
See the project website ➝ and the two books on Public Design Support: Jesko Fezer & Studio Experimentelles Design, ed., Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung: Public Design Support 2011–2016 (New York, 2016); and Jesko Fezer & Studio Experimentelles Design and Claudia Banz, eds., (How) do we (want to) work (together) (as (socially engaged) designers (students and neighbors)) (in neoliberal times)? Public Design Support 2016–2021 (New York, 2021).
Coopdisco and Mathias Heyden, Community Based Design Center (Berlin: Bezirksamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, 2020.
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020).
See the exhibition this essay is for: arc en rêve centre d’architecture Bordeaux, “common, community driven architecture,” June 23–September 18, 2022.
Don Norman and Eli Spencer, “Community-Based, Human-Centered Design,” jnd.org, 2019, ➝.
Joseph Vogl, “Communal Spaces / Community Places / Common Rooms: De-totalized Forms of Encounter,” An Architektur no. 10, (Berlin and New York: An Architektur, October 2003). See ➝.
Roberto Esposito, Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community (Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2010).
Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore, eds., Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003); Jesko Fezer, “Design for a Post-Neoliberal City,” e-flux Journal no. 17 (June 2010), ➝.
Nikolas Rose, “The Death of the Social? Re-figuring the Territory of the Government,” Economy and Society, no. 3 (August 1996): 327-356.
Rose, “The Death of the Social?,” 327.
Ibid.
“The vocabulary of community also implicates a psychology of identification; indeed the very condition of possibility for a community to be imagined is its actual or potential existence as a fulcrum of personal identity. Yet these lines of identification are configured differently. Community proposes a relation that appears less ‘remote,’ more ‘direct,’ one which occurs not in the ‘artificial’ political space of society, but in matrices of affinity that appear more natural. One’s communities are nothing more—or less—than those networks of allegiance with which one identifies existentially, traditionally, emotionally or spontaneously, seemingly beyond and above any calculated assessment of self-interest.” Rose, “The Death of the Social?,” 334.
Rose, “The Death of the Social?,” 352.
Christa Kamleithner, “Regieren durch Community: Neoliberale Formen der Stadtplanung,” in Governance der Quartiersentwicklung. Theoretische und praktische Zugänge zu neuen Steuerungsformen, eds. Matthias Drilling and Olaf Schnur (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009), 29-47, 45.
Rose, “The Death of the Social?,” 353.
The 1960’s Advocacy Planning movement that emerged alongside this transferred what was then the new idea of community organizing—a form of active neighborhood support as developed and coined by Saul Alinsky—to the field of design and planning, applying their skills and resources in the service of local groups. See Jesko Fezer, Umstrittene Methoden. Architekturdiskurse der Verwissenschaftlichung, Politisierung und Mitbestimmung in den 1960er Jahren (Hamburg: Adocs, 2022); Lisa R. Peattie, “Communities and Interests in Advocacy Planning,” Journal of the American Planning Association, no. 2, (1995): 151-153.
Lisa R. Peattie, “Reflections on Advocacy Planning,” Journal of the American Institute of Planners, no. 3 (1968): 80-88.
radikale linke berlin, Kiezkommune Wedding, Kiezkommune Kreuzberg-Neukölln, Kiezkommune Friedrichshain, “Das Konzept Kiezkommune: Über Gegenmacht und wie wir sie aufbauen,” Kiezkommune Aufbauen, ➝.
radikale linke berlin et al., “Das Konzept Kiezkommune.”
Kollektiv aus Bremen, “Für eine grundlegende Neuausrichtung linksradikaler Politik: Kritik & Perspektiven um Organisierung und revolutionäre Praxis,” 2016, ➝.
Kollektiv aus Bremen, “Für eine grundlegende Neuausrichtung linksradikaler Politik,” 37.