4. 2. Caravanserai
"Canning Town Caravanserai is a
welcoming oasis hosted by locals, open
to all visitors. It is a locally-driven public
space bringing together trade, training,
performance, a community garden, and a
place to eat, drink and play. Mixing a
café with art workshops, food stalls with
performance spaces, and enterprise
units with allotments, it will be hosted by
locals and open to all. In short, a
community space run by the
community."
image/text: http://caravanserai.org.uk/our-
story/
5. "Meanwhile London"
•Temporary public spaces competition
•mayors of Newham & London
•5yrs
http://www.newham.
com/live/meanwhile_london_competition/m
eanwhile_london_competition/975,10,0,0.
html
24. Why not make
How will Canning the temporary
Can there be
a permanent
temporariness?
spaces
Town look in 5 permanent?
years?
Democracy
or
"Ad-hocracy"
?
25. Q: What Does http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy
Public Space Characteristics of an adhocracy:
● highly organic structure[3]
Look Like ● little formalization of behavior[1][3]
Under "Adhocracy"? ● job specialization not necessarily
based on formal training
A: Ask... Alvin Toffler // Robert H. Waterman, ● a tendency to group the specialists in
functional units for housekeeping
Jr. // Joseph Grima // Jose Abasolo, purposes but to deploy them in small,
Matias Echanove, Rahul Srivastava market-based project teams to do
(URBZ) // Cany Ash (Caravanserai) their work[3]
● a reliance on liaison devices to
"Adhocracy" at Istanbul Design Bienniale encourage mutual adjustment within
http://istanbuldesignbiennial.iksv.org/adhocracy/ and between these teams[3][4]
● low standardization of procedures[1]
● roles not clearly defined[1]
● selective decentralization[1]
● work organization rests on specialized
teams[1]
● power-shifts to specialized teams
● horizontal job specialization[4]
● high cost of communication[4]
(dramatically reduced in the
networked age)
● culture based on non-bureaucratic
work[4]
Image: http://urbz.net/unmediated-design-tool-house-city/