More Common, More Public Working with products for transvaluation

‘More common, more public’ brings together two creative practice research
projects to explore, firstly the themes within them that offer a critical
perspective on the making of values and relational ethics more attuned to
commons and collective life. Secondly, in framing the material-social
practices of these art-architecture practitioners as research, we question
opportunities for learning from the potential of transference of values and
ways of valuing knowledge between different practice and research publics.
Both projects, introduce the idea of working with products, which enable
the performance and practice of new values, of collective making and
sharing. In particular they suggest a different mode of production and use,
other than commercial or commodified ones. The values of the products
are wrapped in the stories around them, as well as their capacity in making
connections, and new claims to space. Amidst the aggressive privatisation
of space, and not least of knowledge and language, we are interested in
how these forms of practice might translate and survive processes of
enclosure, in both public space and the revaluing within cultures of
standardization and evaluation in the academy.