Mapping the Commons of Istanbul / Parameters

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2	01/ Basic Info
3	Name	Taksim	Cultural expression in public space	Water	Golden Horn riverbanks	Forest	Galata Tower public square	Ayvansaray	communication space	natural landscape (sea, mountains, etc.) regardless of national borders, including extraterrestrial lands (i.e.moon)	Garbage	food	acoustic space	Border	Right of borderless study	languague	Bosphorus	internet / free software for privacy
4	Actor	Inhabitants, demonstrators	Residents and spontaneus passers by	Citizens, polititians, corporations	Inhabitants, visitors, politicians and real estate developers	metropolis inhabitants, animals	residents, citizens and tourists	residents, real state developers		All the people of the world	Collectors	residents of Tarlabaşı, volunteers, activists, illegal immigrants, children, whomever passing by	citizens, capital owners, municipality, government	Two or more countries (Turkey-Greece)	whom ever want to study			citizens /
5	Way	Exercise of disensus (democracy)	Inclusive event (wedding)	consumption (mainly drinking)	Harbour gentrification (from industry to third sector)	leisure, landscape, climate and atmosphere balance	meeting point for staying, sitting, enjoying; regardless of day and night time	legal actions and grassroots activsm		Right to use it	Self-organized	collaboration, exchange of resources, giftgiving - sharing		Cooperation/Diplomacy_vs Warfare	self-organized trips to universities, getting rid of university bureucracy			network surveillance and traffic analysis
6	Conflict	Destruction of Gezi Park, construction of a shoping mall	Cars vs pedestrians, threat by global market oriented metropolis transformation	Privatization of water reservoirs	Indirect evictions, substitution of the population	deforestation by new urban developments	the right to joyful use (noisy) versus right to sleep -with law and oppressive police)	gentrification versus restauraton keeping the community		The seas, lakes, mountains, icebergs are treated as the property of national states whereas they should belong to all humanity.	Unemployement issue of the migrants (Kurdish people) in the Istanbul	non-ındividualized eating	noise, kinesthetic obstacles, dust, pollution	Land soverignty	Internationally obtained degrees are not always locally recognized, knowledge itself is a common that should not be confined to national borders			protection of privacy
7	01/ Extended info
8	Location [if existing]			all around turkey	Golden Horn	Istanbul	galata tower square			universe	streets of Istanbul	Tarlabaşı	city istanbul downtwon		world
9	Importance of Geographic Position (strong / medium / loose / non)			strong	Strong	strong	strong touristic and historical venue,					An innercity slum area under gentrification. Mixed poppulation,mainly marginalized groups by ethnicity, class, gender, citizenship etc.			global implication, no emphasis to particular geography
10	Duration, date creation, history			as natural resource		since the project process starts	since the law, night time,				around 1980s		after 2000s		forever
11	Scale (micro-local / neighborhood / city / region / global)			global and regional		city	neighbourhood/ global, banning alcohol				Turkey	neighbourhood	Istanbul		global
12	Open to all / restricted to closed community			open to all	open to all	open to all	open to all who wants gather there, restricted at night				restricted to a community		open to all		open to all those who would like to study
13	Traditional / new commons			traditional common		traditional	traditional gathering				Traditional		new commons		new commons
14	02/ Resource shared / produced
15	Resource / production			resource		its a project which uses the natural resource	using natural resources				Both		production		common starts as a resource, but the output common will be a production
16	Natural / cultural			natural		natural	cultural				cultural		cultural		cultural
17	Material / immaterial			material		material	immaterial/ Yet they put borders to materialize it				material		both		immaterial
18	Wealth / benefits / rents generated [direct, if any]			basic material of life		House prices ranging from 268.000TL to 922.000TL	none				umemployement rate reduces		benefits to municipality and government		culture as wealth / cultural wealth ??
19	Indirect benefits / wealth generation [if any]						creation of social wealth, sense of belonging, mediteranian lifestyle				benefits to the natural and physical environment
20	[Other] realms that benefit from this common resource						surrounding bars and shops who sell drinks								world peace thanks to intercultural exchange ;)
21	03/ Community / network
22	Open / closed community / network					Open community	open community				Closed Community				open community with a global network of students
23	Approximate number of participants					unknown	rangin from 2 to 500				Thousands				Hard to count
24	Connection network/ network to place (strong / medium / loose)					loose connection	strong connection to the place				Centers to load their garbages that they collect
25	Community / network identity (strong / medium / loose)					loose connection	loose network				strong				loose (you dont need to share affiliations with those in the network)
26	04/ Process, management										7
27	Creation, constituent process														A online network to be established among students of the world through university databases
28	Socio-technical tools: social, mechanical, environmental, digital...						spontaneous social gathering				social and environmental				Digital connected through social
29	Maintenance costs / work / effort / time dedication					self-maintained nature, cleaning costs	exponentially with participants				no bills, they work a lot of time				High time and effort dedication of few at the beginning, and once the system is established, low maintenance effort
30	Formally / informally managed					informally managed	informally managed				informally managed, unlegislative				Initially formal management, but then informal
31	Type of rules - kind of license					Keeping it clean, like any other park, etc.	respect for surroundings and respect for the place								To sign up in advance for alecture so a room appropriate to the number of people attending can be arranged
32	Decision taking processes					No decision needs to be taken, besides maintenance	right of the common + their respectable responsabilities								Discussion on the online platform
33	Conflict resolution processes					Voting, cooperation	consultation with surrounding parameters, open debate
34	Power relations within (horizontal / vertical / hybrid / others [specify])					Horizontal	hybrid, horizontal but neighbours have the last word
35	05/ Conflicts / politics [enclosures, captures, exploitation]
36	Conflicts, problems					Different preferences of use	Police intervention
37	Level of conflict (strong / medium / soft / non)					Strong	medium
38	Relations with public / private realms						public, restrictions to private shops
39	Pro/ cons compared to public-public realms						Abuse of the Public sphere.
40	Relations with laws					Government policy to sell the land to private ownership	Specific law voted in 2009?
41	Additional comments					"private property in land is robbery”	Many other places...
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