Learning Site. What shall we do with all that Water
Posted on | August 10, 2009 | Comments Off
Rikke Luther
What are the rights to the water? Can we develop new ideas in relation to the definition “ownership” of water spaces in the city? Is it useful to think of water spaces and access to the water in terms of a ‘commons’? Could we talk about new order of property? Put another way, can we rethink the city through looking at the city in relation to nature and what is produced in the city? This entails other questions: What kind of ecological footprint is the city creating?
To many, the concept of the ‘commons’ is not an evident solution. But in our situation today, it is a concept we need to think more about. It is time to make new experiments. So, can we rethink the ownership, participation and access, and our possibilities to be in the city and help the environment?
The talk will start out from an analysis of the situtation in Copenhagen, where Learning Sites activities are located, and will explore the history and current norms of the relation to water spaces.