The Ordinary State of the Crisis

Amateur Cities, Frank Keizer, New Generations, No Density, Politics and economics, Talk, Urban Paradigms, UrgentCity

Affordable Housing, Autonomy, Bigdata, Collaboration, Collective development, Concept, Contemporary society, Crisis, Future Commoning Cities, Government, Information, Language, Open data, Poetry, Politics, Privatisation, Public vs. Private, Social Production, Space, Strategies

Interview by Ania Molenda from Amateur Cities

In searching for a new vocabulary Frank Keizer calls for not divorcing terms from practice – from actual struggles. In doing so, he has identified terms that roughly relate to four terrains of struggle and spoke to us about the political relevance of culture and its language.