Presented as part of the RGCS-OWEE Symposium on 'Embodying Ecological Stakes of our Time in Urban Contexts'.

3. Designers through socio-material practices are
said to frame the future...

4. #COUNTERFRAME
#DE-FUTURING

5. `"Lived, Real,
Embodied, Difficult"
(Kohtala et al., 2019)

6. FUTURE-MAKING
HERE & NOW
EMBODIMENT
DISEMBODIMENT
DE-FUTURING

7. PROVOCATIONS

8. In radical autonomous urban
commons, affect, ie the experience of
participation, takes precedence
over the procedures
of commons governance....
1

10. This affect is both discursive and material, whereby the aesthetics
of urban commons are bound up in commons 'frames', through
which exclusions happen....
2
‘Aspiration Lane’ by Emmet Kierans
https://www.emmetkierans.com/

12. 3 JOY
Resistance, however, has
always flourished; even in
the most difficult
circumstances, those
living at the margins of
the colonial world have
learned the skills to
continuously create new,
more joyful futures.
(Luiza Prado,
source: https://www.luiza-
prado.com/anticolonial-
joy

14. How might the exclusions inherent in
material-discursive commons frames be
addressed?
What are the possibilities to work with affect
as a concept for building mobilisation /
allyship?