The processes of communing, or social, grassroots initiatives aimed to manage selected resources, which may currently be observed in many communities, represent characteristics typical of real utopias – it is a vision of the future that begins to partly come true through the effort of the people involved. The commons, emerging in many places around the world, are for the time being a marginal phenomenon and in many cases still an experiment. However, in terms of a global system this stage in the adaptive cycle (disintegration, reorganisation) is a time of experimenting and searching for new solutions, not only ideological but primarily the practical ones, which will allow people to function in new conditions. Being the centres of human civilisation and development, cities adapt the classic concept of the commons to their current situation, as recently represented by the idea of Urban Commons.
Revitalization and urban renewal course was established at Faculty of Architecture in Politechnika Śląska (Silesian University of Technology) as a new course in academic year 2008-2009. Previously problems of that matter were presented fragmentally within the courses of Urban Design and Planning, Architectural Design, Monument Preservation and Urban Renewal. That situation resulted in specifi c misunderstanding. Students understood revitalization mainly as a spatial reconstruction or renewal of urban or architectural degradated objects. In that sense the main goal seemed to be gained by pure spatial act. New course is intended to show revitalization as interdisciplinary, long-term process. Operational aspects of executing this process are strongly stressed in the program of new course. The main didactic objective is to provide necessary knowledge and improve students ability and skills of urban space diagnosing, formulating aims, tasks and actions programming. One of those actions is renewal of urban space elements, treated as a tool of urban revitalization process.
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