• • uncube’s editors are Sophie Lovell (Art Director, Editor-in-Chief), Florian Heilmeyer, Rob Wilson and Elvia Wilk; editorial assistance: Susie S. Lee; graphic design: Lena Giovanazzi; graphics assistance: Madalena Guerra. uncube is based in Berlin and is published by BauNetz, Germany’s most-read online magazine covering architecture in a thoughtful way since 1996.

  With the current world population at seven billion and rising, we are legion and we are many – but we are also community and we care. For our 20th issue, uncube has asked curator and critic Francesca Ferguson, author of a new book entitled “Make_Shift City”, to guest-edit the theme of “Urban Commons”. From a range of experts and projects she has picked a new selection of architectural and social projects demonstrating the empowerment and initiatives of citizens that are challenging the way we think about public space, civic responsibility and ownership.
  
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  The editors

  Cover photo: Anna Krzyzanowska; this page: Wikimedia Commons

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover

  Urban Commons
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Urban Commons
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Renegotiating the Urban Commons

  We have to fight for the right to shared space

  Text: Francesca Ferguson
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Sun Cinema

  Social sculpture by Clemens von Wedemeyer
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Tempelhofer Feld

  A field of possibilities

  Text: Elvia Wilk
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  Landscapes of Public vs. Private

  Interview with Martin Rein-Cano

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  R-Urban

  Prototypes for an urban ecology

  Text: Elvia Wilk
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  From Austerity to Audacity

  Interview with Fran Tonkiss on the emerging urbanism of small acts

  Text: Francesca Ferguson
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  NDSM Wharf

  A collective creative community

  Text: Jason Hilgefort
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  Reclaim the City!

  Andrej Holm on social struggles in a neo-liberalising city

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Culture Clash

  Skaters reclaim the South Bank
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Concrete Commons

  Shared spaces of British modernism

  Text: Rob Wilson
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Architecture of the Civic Economy

  Indy Johar's manifesto for soft power

  Text: Indy Johar
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Bike Nomads

  Mobile urban activists
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Kraftwerk 2

  Cooperative living in Switzerland

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• PHOTO BOOTH

  PHOTO BOOTH

  In the Photo Booth with...

  Beatriz Colomina

  Text: Evelyn Steiner
• FREEHAND

  FREEHAND

  Rushing up. Landed

  Collage by Stefan Davidovici

  Text: Stefan Davidovici
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

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