The document outlines The MET Workshop, which examines three former airports - Mariscal Sucre in Quito, Elliniko in Athens, and Tempelhof in Berlin - as potential metropolitan commons. It discusses dilemmas around flows and enclosures, geopolitical imbalances, scale and history, private vs public vs commons, and top-down vs participatory planning. The workshop brings together urbanists, citizens, students, activists, and architects from the three cities to explore governance research, participatory design research, and social processes with the goal of coordinating local and transnational networks and ecosystems around the future of the three airport sites.

1. MET Workshop
Ex-airports as metropolitan commons
2016.transmediale.de Anxious to Act
Nicholas Anastasopoulos, PhD, Researcher National Technical University of Athens, Greece nanastasopoulos@arch.ntua.gr
themetworkshop.wordpress.com
urbandispositions@gmail.com

2. Mariscal Sucre, QuitoElliniko, AthensTempelhof, Berlin
Three case studies
In the center of the urban fabric
In a transient and uncertain period,
between scenarios of development or openness
privatization or public space.

3. http://commonstransition.org/
http://commonstransition.org/
http://mappingthecommons.net/es/quito/
http://floksociety.org/

4. portAir-
Α location on a coast or shore where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land.
In computing a port serves as an endpoint in an operating system for many types of
communication. It is not a hardware device, but a logical construct that identifies a service or
process.
Definitions for both terms found in Wikipedia

5. Airports share some common infrastructures:
runways, control towers, hangars, etc. It is a kind of common language developed over
time to serve the normal functions of an airport.
Former airports are equipped with this legacy and challenge which might be perceived
as an invitation to examine the types of social infrastructure, and the technical, legal
and operational standards as a platform for something new. Former airports need to
be seen as ports of ideas, social innovation and visions for the futures of their cities.
And this could perhaps be conceived by the citizens themselves.

6. [air]-ports
and
the futures of cities

7. Parque Bicentenario Former airport Mariscal Sucre, 2014

8. Former airport Elliniko, 2014

9. Former airport Tempelhof-Berlin, 2014

10. Peer-to-peer culture
Peer-to-peer production has emerged as a vibrant human activity
challenging borders, enclosures, national and class divisions.
Peer-to-peer culture holds the potential for a change of
consciousness towards individual and networked participation
and for a paradigm shift in community and society structure.

11. Can three disparate groups in three different locations collaborate, discuss,
share, invent and propose a unifying theme under local similar dilemmas?
Research questions and
working hypotheses
commonprivate public
Can former airports be regarded as metropolitan commons?

12. Mariscal Sucre, Quito
201520131960
Elliniko, Athens
1938 20011941 19931945
Three airports timeline
Tempelhof, Berlin
1923 2008
2014
1936

13. The alterglobalisation movement is a well-known example of the P2P ethos at work
in the political field.
The movement sees itself as a network of networks that combines players from a
wide variety of fields and opinions , who, despite the fact that they do no see eye to
eye on every aspect, manage to unite around a common platform of action around
certain key events. They are able to mobilize vast numbers of people from every
continent, without having at their disposal any of the traditional newsmedia, such
as televisions, radios or newspapers. Rather, they rely almost exclusively on the P2P
technologies described above.
The P2P Foundation

14. Flows and Openess
Enclosures
Dilemma #1
Globalization era:
vs

15. Geopolitical
imbalances
Dilemma #2
vs
Peer-to-peer

16. Scale, culture and
history
Dilemma #3
vs
Peer-to-peer

17. Private/Public
the Commons
Dilemma #4
vs

18. Participatory
citizenship
Top-down planning
Dilemma #5
vs

19. Governance research Participatory design research Social process research
Coordination hub at the local and the transnational level
The METropolitan Commons Workshop
Mariscal Sucre, Quito Elliniko, Athens
Tempelhof, Berlin

20. Ecosystems and networks
Quito Berlin
Urbanists
Citizens
Students
Activists
Architects
Athens
Local communities
P2P
Legal

21. 2&3 September 20015
Quito MET
Workshop

22. 1&2 November 20015
Athens MET
Workshop

23. 2 February 20016
Berlin MET
Workshop

24. Thank you!
The MET Workshop
Nicholas Anastasopoulos, PhD, Researcher National Technical University of Athens, Greece
nanastasopoulos@arch.ntua.gr
Themetworkshop.wordpress.com