Canning Town Station

Caravanserai

Surrounding Neighborhood & High Street

"The Place"

Canning Town

1. Canning Town Station & Bus Terminal

2. Caravanserai

"Canning Town Caravanserai is a welcoming oasis hosted by locals, open to all visitors. It is a locally-driven public space bringing together trade, training, performance, a community garden, and a place to eat, drink and play. Mixing a café with art workshops, food stalls with performance spaces, and enterprise units with allotments, it will be hosted by locals and open to all. In short, a community space run by the community."

image/text: http://caravanserai.org.uk/our-story/

"Meanwhile London"

•Temporary public spaces competition•mayors of Newham & London•5yrs

http://www.newham.com/live/meanwhile_london_competition/meanwhile_london_competition/975,10,0,0.html

Video: Crossing The Street

Video / Interview: Cany Ash

http://caravanserai.org.uk/caravanserai-on-site-teaser/

Spatial Analysis

Walls, Boundaries, Porosity

3. Newham Surroundings

Rathbone Market vs. Caravanserai

4. The Place

How will Canning Town look in 5

years?

Why not make the temporary spaces permanent?

Can there bea permanent temporariness?

Democracy or

"Ad-hocracy"?

Q: What Does Public Space Look Like Under "Adhocracy"?

Characteristics of an adhocracy:● highly organic structure[3]● little formalization of behavior[1][3]● job specialization not necessarily

based on formal training● a tendency to group the specialists in

functional units for housekeeping purposes but to deploy them in small, market-based project teams to do their work[3]

● a reliance on liaison devices to encourage mutual adjustment within and between these teams[3][4]

● low standardization of procedures[1]● roles not clearly defined[1]● selective decentralization[1]● work organization rests on specialized

teams[1]● power-shifts to specialized teams● horizontal job specialization[4]● high cost of communication[4]

(dramatically reduced in the networked age)

● culture based on non-bureaucratic work[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy

Alvin Toffler // Robert H. Waterman, Jr. // Joseph Grima // Jose Abasolo, Matias Echanove, Rahul Srivastava (URBZ) // Cany Ash (Caravanserai)

Image: http://urbz.net/unmediated-design-tool-house-city/

A: Ask...

"Adhocracy" at Istanbul Design Biennialehttp://istanbuldesignbiennial.iksv.org/adhocracy/