Tactical Urbanism
As the projecting form of commons-based peer-production, emergent urbanism offers a means to making places outside the usual planning/permitting/top-down paradigm. Online activity can coordinate groups of people to use space in unconventional ways or in ways that challenge the officially sanctioned use of a place. Building on grassroots practices that existed well before the Internet or cell phones, online participation frameworks can be designed to organize new spatial practices and unite what would otherwise be small scale interventions into a larger unified scheme. Incorporating media façades, augmented reality, or information from online frameworks, emergent urbanism is in some ways the manifestation of new forms of community participation that synthesize traditional social participation with the participation of consuming media like television or film.
