ABSTRACT
This chapter examines new hybrid forms of ‘ownership’ as they appear in and through public space in crisis-ridden Thessaloniki. Formally induced experiments of ‘co-ownership’ of public space are explored in parallel to citizen-led initiatives of everyday praxis and appropriation. Evidence from Thessaloniki suggests that multiple agents in various relationships to each other are involved in the production of public space, destabilizing the traditional private-public binary and unfolding a new, hybrid and often conflictual terrain in between. The chapter seeks to unveil the aims, the permanence and the relation of this process of hybridization of ownership to ‘the project of emancipation’.
