Being-in-Relation and Reinventing the Commons

This chapter explores how the ‘commons’ is a political project that is central to feminist strategies for reconstructing our social, political, affective and cognitive agency in contemporary society. The paper draws on a number of projects developed by atelier d’architecture autogérée, with residents in Paris and its suburbs, to demonstrate how these processes of sexed, spatial and ecological reinvention – whose ‘agents’ are mostly women – produce new social relations of and for the commons.