Facing the climate crisis as a common challenge: the role of commoning design practices in enhancing urban resilience

• Salime Benan Kaya ^[1] ; Murat Cemal Yalçıntan ^[1]
  1. [1] Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi

     Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi

     Turquía

     
• Localización: Socioecos 2024. Conference Proceedings June 6-7, 2024: climate change, sustainability and socio-ecological practices / Benjamín Tejerina Montaña (ed. lit.), Cristina Miranda de Almeida De Barros (ed. lit.), Clara Acuña Rodríguez (ed. lit.), 2024, ISBN 978-84-9082-680-5, págs. 361-374
• Idioma: inglés
• Enlaces
  • Texto Completo Libro
• Resumen

  • The study of the resilience of cities, conceived as spaces of collective survival within a natural resource-dependent life cycle, is at the forefront of interdisciplinary discourse. As climate change intensifies current and future crises, the urgency for cities to cope with these challenges is paramount. The source of collective actions that exacerbate the impacts of the climate crisis are cities, which are the areas of struggle that will face these impacts most harshly. For a solution that will end this vicious cycle, there is a need to design and manage living spaces with collective consciousness and experiences rather than an individual-centred approach. How planning and design disciplines can develop the ability to tackle the environmental and social crises that await us in the future, adapt to climate change, and create resilient living spaces are current discussion topics that need to be addressed with an interdisciplinary, holistic approach.

    Therefore, this research’s starting point is to explore the intersection of the climate crisis, planning design, and commoning practices. The reason for focusing on the commons as an additional discipline, which includes the use of the commons and the practices of creating and managing shared spaces, is the expectation that urban challenges such as climate crisis and socio-economic and ecological crises that threaten living spaces can be solved through design and space creation tools and methods that will put forward approaches within the framework of commoning practices.

    The study is shaped around the hypothesis that the production of platforms and gathering spaces where everyday decisions will be taken and solutions that can be implemented with a spirit of unity are produced through commoning practices has the power to transform cities into socio-ecologically resilient living spaces. From its perspective on design, “How can commoning practices contribute to design discipline seeking solutions to the impacts of climate change? The new social and spatial relationship systems established by commoning practices in the face of unexpected crises and the dynamics of producing common space and creating common ground are discussed in the case of Düzce Hope Homes.

    The climate crisis requires a holistic approach that cannot be solved only through commoning design practices. However, asking whether it is possible to include the concerns of communities in the struggle against future crises through common practices and approaches can be considered a quest to act together and empower common ground.