This document discusses the concepts of public and private spaces. It provides definitions of public spaces as those that are freely accessible to all and where people may encounter strangers, as well as places where political debates occur and "common goods" are discussed. Private spaces are defined as not freely accessible and controlled by owners, as well as individually owned things like thoughts. The document also discusses the "tragedy of the commons" concept and how technology can manufacture new types of public/private spaces.

1. Public/Private
Spaces: Pulling
things together
Mathias Klang
@klangable
mklang@sju.edu

2. The Average White American’s
Social Network is 1% Black
Three-quarters of white Americans haven’t had a
meaningful conversation with a single non-white person in
the last six months.

3. early examples Athens democracy (late 6th or early 5th century BC)
Roman Republic had freedom of speech.
In Islam 7th century AD (Rashidun period by the caliph Umar)

5. Who steals my purse steals
trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has
been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me
my good name
Robs me of that which not
enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
Shakespeare’s Othello
(Act 3, scene 3, 155–161)

6. We hold these truths to
be self-evident; that all
men are created equal,
that they are endowed by
their creator with certain
unalienable rights, that
among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
Declaration (1776)
6

7. The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of
the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may,
accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but
shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as
shall be defined by law.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French Revolution, 1789) Article 11

8. • Men are born and remain free and equal in
rights.
• Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything
which injures no one else.
• Law is the expression of the general will
• No punishment without law
• Presumtion of innocence
• Free opinions, speech & communication
The rights of man (1789)
8

9. Would any politician be against it…
Truth (Mill)
Tolerance (Bollinger)
Democracy (art xix)

10. Highpoint 1948

11. Everyone has the right
to freedom of opinion
and expression; this
right includes freedom
to hold opinions
without interference
and to seek, receive and
impart information and
ideas through any
media and regardless of
UNDHR, 1948, Article 19 frontiers.

12. - The right to express, or
disseminate,
information and ideas
- The right to seek
information and ideas
- The right to receive
information and ideas
- The right to impart
information and ideas.
John Milton (1608 – 1674)

13. “What is freedom of expression? Without the
freedom to offend, it ceases to exist” Salman Rushdie

14. Offended stephen fry

15. Private
public
Distinction

16. Surveillance: The rise of the anti-facial
recognition movement

17. “What is
actually
happening is
that you’re
creating
disinformation”
Leo Selvaggio

18. Public
1. Freely accessible places where ‘everything that happens be observed by anyone’, where strangers are encountered
whether one wants to or not, because everyone has free right
of entry
2. Places where the spotlight of ‘publicity’ shines, and so might
not just be public squares and market places, but political
debating chambers where the right of physical access limited but informational access is 3. ‘common goods’ like clean air and water, public transport, so on; as well as more particular concerns like crime or raising of children that vary in their content over time space, depending on the current state of a particular society’s
value judgments.
4. Things which are owned by the state or the people in and paid
for out of collective resources like taxes: government
buildings, national parks in most countries, military bases equipment, and so

19. 1. Places that are not freely accessible, and
have controllers who limit access to or
use of that space.
2. Things that primarily concern individuals
and not collectives
3. Things and places that are individually
owned, including things that are
cognitively ‘our own’, like our thoughts,
goals, emotions, spirituality,
preferences, and so on
Private

20. Private or
public?

21. Public or private?

22. The law locks up the man
or woman who steals the
goose from off the
common but let the
greater villain loose who
steals the common from
The Commons
the goose
Anonymous

23. A commons arises whenever a given community decides that it wishes to
manage a resource in a collective manner, with a special regard for
equitable access, use and sustainability. It is a social form that has long
lived in the shadows of our market culture, but which is now on the rise
David Bollier

24. The Commons &
its tragedy

25. Ostrom on the Myth of the tragedy

26. Wikipedia
Comedy of the commons

28. Manufacturing public space
New York City's 1961 Zoning Resolution introduced the concept
of Privately Owned Public Space (POPS), allowing developers
bonus floor area in exchange for providing spaces for the public
within or outside their buildings. There are more than 80 acres
of POPS in 520 locations throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn and
Queens

29. Urban spaces are technology

30. Personal Private space in public

31. Public
space in
Private

32. Mathias Klang
www.klangable.com
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