从人民公园到人民的公园

From People’s Park to Park for the People

公共空间由谁定义?又为谁而生?民众如何可以真正参与到空间"公共性"的建构中来?首先通过一个小区花坛的案例来反思今天中国城市公共空间成为一种形式主义摆设的现状,对其所谓的"公共性"提出质疑。并透过3个近年来的公众参与项目来进一步探讨城市空间"公共性"的建构,以及普通民众在公共空间创造和生产过程中所扮演的角色。这些项目不仅颠覆了城市公共空间长久以来被权力者和专业者所理解和想象的方式,同时也挑战了"公共"的定义以及"空间"的生产模式。

Who defines public space? Who makes public space public? The paper begins with the reflection on today’s public space in China as a display of formalism, through which to interrogate the facticity of its "publicity". It maps out three recent socially-engaged and public participatory projects to explore the construction of "publicity" and the roles people played in making public spaces. These projects challenge not merely the ways of public space being understood and imagined by authorities and designers, but also the notion of "public" and the production of "space".