Constructing a Commune Co-ownership and the Commons | Unique Program Types

of housing diverse communities and programs. Squatters Inherently maintain a dynamism in the way in vulnerable as the people that inhabit them. This allows them a great degree of flexibility in the tactics they em commune- into environments of extreme spatial diversity and extreme communal engagement.

allowed for the insertion typically with living space by the presence of unique program typologies established by various infrastructures of sharing. Tool sharing rooms, communal gardens, and item exchange machine parts) indicate communal use of available resources. These tool sharing and communal gardens are foundational to every squat, as accumulation of of modifying one’s own environment is significant

The Tactics of Constructing a Commune

By weaving structures of solidarity, creativity and activism, squatters transgress and disrupt normative forms of domestic inhabitation and patriarchal structures. A significant number of squats house households composed of nuclear families. Similarly, women make up an equal representation of squatter populations in the 4 case studies discussed previously. The case studies are testament to the ways in which domestic labor can be centralized to significantly reduce the burdens of reproductive labor on the nuclear family, particularly the mother. Three key elements can be adapted to models of co-living to centralize reproductive labor into communal functions and shared burdens.

Ultimately, market-driven policies, the economic and political pressures, have pushed people to rely on their own means and on infrastructures of commonality. It is within this setting that we can extract significant conclusions about how squatter communes may influence future co-living models by allowing the liberation of the commons from economic and political systems, allowing participation and agency by resident and inhabitant, allowing for the rethinking centralized domestic labor and disrupting normative forms of domestic inhibition and patriarchal structures.

Communal kitchens

Allow for the centralization of food production- reducing the time which individuals have to spend completing domestic labor. All case studies have implemented this,although at different scales. Some implemented rotation systems while others have formed cook groups in which cooking is completed communally.

Nurseries and Creches

Larger squats have nurseries which allow further centralization of domestic labor as nurturing children becomes a communal practice.

Live-work:

Squats have deployed communal live-work programs which allow residents maintain physical and social presence in squats. By eliminating the physical thresholds between life and work, the Squat residents more productively engage with the communal setting of the squat.