Everyday Life in Ecological Justice Urban

After reading the articles related to Ecological Urbanism and looking back to the topics discussed previously, I believe that Ecological Urbanism, Everyday Life in the City and Space Justice have a triangle relationship.

Firstly, Ecological Urbanism is processed over time. That is to say, the design and build process always last for a long time instead of being determined in only one time. While there is a theme called Architecture as Tactic from Everyday Urbanism. To be more precise, it is about fragmentation and accumulation. In this way, project is divided into several phases and is built step by step. Fumihiko Maki’s Hillside Terrace is a good example. Both of them require a process to achieve the goal.

Secondly, as what has been talk about in Mohsen Mostafavi’s Ecological Urbanism, the intention behind engaging new subjectivities and collectives through the frameworks of ecological urbanism is to engender greater opportunities for social and spatial democracy which is the goal of Social Justice as well.

Then, like what I discussed in my blog post of Social Justice, I do not think space resource can be shared by everyone, I advocate that we should never forget any specific community and we should build social response projects based on its special context in order to help improve the quality of life of people living in that community. For now, I still cannot imagine the big scale social response project and what I experience and think could work is small scale projects. Hence, the fragmentation and accumulation process is perfect for it, that is, building several small social response projects step by step to do beneficial to communities.

This triangle may improve existing urban from bottom-up gradually.