Spatialities between property and the commons: an interval of tolerance

This paper examines the relations of ‘space’ with ‘property’ and ‘commons’. Property is an exclusionary mechanism that regulates human relationships through space based on ownership, boundary, and control. Contrarily, the commons is a spatial practice of encounter, collaboration, and sharing, open to all kinds of participation of the multitude. With a research methodology grounded in the principle of ‘tolerance’, this study questions the spatialities between property and the commons, with or without coexistence and communication. To achieve this, a diagrammatical method for ‘a theoretical reading over an interval’ is generated, which enables a debate on the property and the commons over a conceptual graph of connections of ‘spatial tendencies’, ‘theoretical structures’, and ‘spatial activism’. The ‘interval of tolerance’ graph reveals the connections as a tolerance environment for encountering differences and ensuring spatial relations. Thus, the expansion of networks of connections means the expansion of tolerance. The study concludes that the interval of tolerance narrows towards property but broadens towards the commons, which means spatial toleration is high in the commons, but low in property.