The Feminist Park Podcast – Un/Seen Spaces: Designing for Liberation!
Sep 15, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
Urban Commons as Citizenship: Participation and Belonging in Bologna Season 2 Episode:21. September 15, 2026 Models collaborative management of urban commons as pathway to expanded citizenship…
Right.
And these citizens had spent the last five years burying building this incredible thriving community.
I mean, we're talking about an enormous functional ecosystem here.
Yeah.
A really massive undertaking.
Exactly.
They had built an organic farm, a cooperative pizzeria, a microbrewery, affordable housing and even a free medical clinic.
All of this inside an abandoned national military barracks.
Right.
But then the police just cleared them out.
And here is the paradox that we are going to unpack today.
Because those citizens were arguably doing exactly what the city's own progressive urban planning laws had encouraged them to do.
It's a really profound contradiction.
I mean, you have a municipality that literally wrote the global rulebook on how citizens can collaborate to manage public space.
And then suddenly they're using state violence to crush a citizen led space.
So today we are looking at the underlying friction of that moment, you know, to answer a question that changes how you experience your daily commute.
Which is, who actually owns your city?
Exactly.
Because I feel like the default answer in our heads is usually pretty binary, right? Oh,
for sure.
We walk down the street and think, well, either the government owns this like a city hall or a public park or a private developer owns it.
Like a shopping mall or an apartment complex.
Right.
And we, the people walking on the sidewalk, are just guests.
Right.
And these citizens had spent the last five years burying building this incredible thriving community.
I mean, we're talking about an enormous functional ecosystem here.
Yeah.
A really massive undertaking.
Exactly.
They had built an organic farm, a cooperative pizzeria, a microbrewery, affordable housing and even a free medical clinic.
All of this inside an abandoned national military barracks.
Right.
But then the police just cleared them out.
And here is the paradox that we are going to unpack today.
Because those citizens were arguably doing exactly what the city's own progressive urban planning laws had encouraged them to do.
It's a really profound contradiction.
I mean, you have a municipality that literally wrote the global rulebook on how citizens can collaborate to manage public space.
And then suddenly they're using state violence to crush a citizen led space.
So today we are looking at the underlying friction of that moment, you know, to answer a question that changes how you experience your daily commute.
Which is, who actually owns your city?
Exactly.
Because I feel like the default answer in our heads is usually pretty binary, right? Oh,
for sure.
We walk down the street and think, well, either the government owns this like a city hall or a public park or a private developer owns it.
Like a shopping mall or an apartment complex.
Right.
And we, the people walking on the sidewalk, are just guests.
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