Interview-guide CF #2-09-2011

This second inquiry under the ‘Charlois Frequencies’ project, focuses on the relationship between use and regulation of space in the built environment. Use is a complex and historically contingent term. In law it refers to real property, which amounts to the duty of a person to whom a property is allocated for certain purposes, such as living or farming, to actually carry out those purposes. Use in common language refers to  opportunity or design. As shared value, the most universal form of use is money. While use can destabilize the initial vision or plan, the latter will inevitably regulate the former, resulting in their mutual modification.

nõde is collaborating with Kelwin Palmer (Architect, London) to uncover various manifestations and implications of use and regulation taking place in the neighborhood. Using knowledge from a series of deep interviews with inhabitants, policymakers and others, we will build a number of models, proposing ways to think and inhabit the political nature of the space produced as a result of the dynamics between use and regulation.