(Un)Social Community
Jesko Fezer
The exhibition Common, Community driven architecture , which was held at arc en rêve in 2022, gave rise to a series of publications in the online magazine e-flux. This series of ten essays foreshadowed the creation of an editorial section on the arc en rêve website. These texts, edited by Nick Alex and Nikolaus Hirsch, have never been translated into French until now. Arc en rêve will gradually make them available on its new site. The second text in the e-flux series to be published, Jesko Fezer's (Un)social community looks back at experiences of design-based community activism. Far from the conventional discourse and overplayed optimism, the essay attempts a critical and disillusioned assessment of the action of an association that has endeavoured to resist the gentrification of the St Pauli district in Hamburg through creative activism based on the conviction of the emancipatory virtues of design.
