ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents his own projects to analyse the complexity and conflictual dimensions and dilemmas of spatial interventions and try to make a claim for action as a kind of exercise in 'minimal politics'. The project is located in a prison, the kind of space, which, for Michel Foucault, was the paradigmatic space of disciplinary social power relations and acted as a model for other similarly structured public institutions, such as hospitals, schools or universities. The repeated concern of the prison administration during the design process was that the football field would not be used, but rather would be vandalized immediately. Prisoners' spatial rights are to be defined in a way quite different from the needs of cooks. The intervention measured the courtyard as much as the sports field, which defines the space as too small for football, but not too small for a prison courtyard.
