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7 Trade
Gatherings and interactions around commerce, from yard sales, to markets, shops and town centres. Creates a conducive space, which also necessitates trust and reciprocity and defines norms of behaviour.
8 Neighbourhood Art
Creative decoration intended to be seen by people on the street, from permanent mosaic or sculpture or short-lived chalk. The artwork might be anonymous, privately commissioned or produced as part of a collective process, but it's intended to express and anchor the identity of a neighbourhood. It may also be transient, with a focus that's as much on the process and creation event as on the end product. It highlights skills and assets that already exist in the community.
Sherwood Tree of Knowledge
Rainbow Square
Community art
9 Interactive Street Object
An object that invites playful interaction. It places a familiar object (such as a piano) in an unfamiliar, public context. In doing so it offers a permission structure for interaction, and invokes radical generosity in making the object part of the commons. The object also acts as a visual anchor for community identity, can act as a base for other activities (e.g. 31 Gaming), and offers scope for creativity in how the object is decorated or contextualised.
10 Household Decoration
In this pattern the household, rather than public spaces, is the locus for decorative activity. However the cumulative effect of households being visually transformed around a shared tradition (perhaps 4 Seasonal Festival such as Halloween or Christmas) embodies several principles: individual expression within a shared identity, accompaniment in a shared activity, and marking the seasons.
Hanover advent calendar
Halloween / Christmas house decorations
Door flags + decals
11 Nature Space
Interventions that bring nature into manmade spaces. It may be provocative, in intending to push back against ownership structures, to highlight ecological poverty or pollution, or simply to improve the neighbourhood's visual appearance. Gardening is an ongoing beacon action that offers opportunities for community collaboration across ages and abilities.
12 Community Cleanup
Actions that take shared responsibility for the condition of the commons, as a rejection of the idea that this should be uncared for, or left to the municipality. Like Nature Space, this is an ongoing beacon action that has a low threshold for participation.
Clean ups
Zürichsee scuba clean
Community cleanup channel
Habitat For Humanity