Commoning "bucla" (the loop) with conviviality. ephemeral spaces and informal practices in support of urban commons in the post-socialist city

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, thriving neoliberal policies, facilitated by a hegemonic anti-communist narrative, transformed the post-socialist cities of Romania. Hosting most of the country s urban population, collective housing neighborhoods built during the socialist era faced radical privatization, collapsing public infrastructure and rampant individualization. Their public and civic spaces, such as streets, parks, sport and cultural facilities, were fragmented, underfinanced, and commodified. However, nested in surviving grids of public infrastructure, practices of appropriation and everyday protocols of collaboration have been crystalizing, evidencing to a certain extent what is understood as a "latent" form of commoning.1.