ABSTRACT
The chapter takes generosity as a caring spatial act to be traced within the alternative spatial practices that are possible in the contested context of Cyprus. It suggests that such an act demands claiming new positions/roles for architecture and urbanism that extend beyond the traditional limitations of the profession. These new positions and spatial acts are explored through the situated experience of the author as part of Archis Interventions Cyprus group with Mapping Karpas Project looking into a village populated with communities ‘in conflict’ that live together. It is a reflective narrative with a feminist lens grounded in care, mutuality and collectivity for tracing the moments and possibilities of generosity embedded within spatial processes that highlight informality and commons to tackle layers of power contestations in the context. Such situated and practice-based insight aims to build on the limited articulations of the notion of architectural generosity, specifically in connection with critical spatial practice and contested spaces.
