Entries by David Behar Perahia

Lines of Commons

In order to understand the phenomena of commoning, one has to go back to the era of hunter-gatherers and to the rise of agriculture. As The hunter-gatherers were mostly nomadic in character and their motivation was to move around the seasons in order to reach and foraging food supply, the rise of agriculture signifies the […]

Urban Biosphere and Public Participation

The Challenge of Mediating the Complexity (and Messiness) of the Urban Biosphere Vision. Establishing the conditions for a growing biodiversity in urban areas is a challenging process that requires mediation and an expansion of active collaboration by the public. The main challenge here is a shift in perception, which needs to be expressed and mediated, […]

Tegel Visit 6th October

The frame of today’s strolling can be described as the meeting point between human interventions and the natural environment, where the airport field vicinity have let the nearby nature to flourish, while man’s activities were reduced because of the air and sound hazards. For example, cement pools that were designed to receive overflow of water, […]