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PUBLIC TO THE PUBLIC (2021) is a project that imagines a network of libraries for tools and recycled construction materials throughout the city. placed in city owned abandoned sites and buildings, this institution imagines a framework for communities to create, repair, and expand their public and social infrastructure. offering not only tools, but establishing a system of knowledge and material use, public to the public envisions a growing movement that connects different groups and individuals through the sharing of tools and expertise, while offering the opportunity to take over existing abandoned spaces for local organizations and community groups. programming existing vacant lots in connection with existing community garden infrastructure offers the self-authored design of city owned properties, shaping, and reinventing the existing notion of a public. This notion does not impose a strategy for how public space and live is ought to look like, but rather offers the tools and infrastructure for space making. imagining two specific structures and programs, such an institution could invite people to interact with the city and each other outside the realm of city-directed public programs. consisting of a tool and material library, for the storage and distribution of materials on one side, and community centers with meeting, office, and small workshop areas, a basic frame for organization and construction could be established, offering legal advice and practical knowledge for the creation of a new form of public life in a city.

"public space, insofar as it is a thoroughly capitalist institution - that is, a locus of criticism internal to the modern market economy - is always the construction of a paradox within physical space [...] it is a physical space that manifests a contradiction, provoking agnostic questions and conversations." (rather than being a locus of rational communication) - adrian blackwell


“cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” - jane jacobs
tool library
the collection and sharing of tools and construction materials from construction and demolition sites enables the potential of distribution throughout the city. accessibility to tools and equipment becomes the main instrument for the creation of interpersonal relations, connectivity, and enables personal home improvements as well as the making of new spaces with novel programs. meeting
space for space - offering consultation on legal concernes, making space for workshops, gatherings and other forms of social events. a small makerspace and workshop helps with the distribution and accessibility of tools, while empty areas and rooftop access allow for additional programming of the structure. vision
the idea is to create a network of new ‘public’ spaces that share knowledge, tools, materials and programs. expanding beyond the proposed infrastructure of tool sharing and consultation, the opportunities for the creation of accessible space is only limited by the imagination