ABSTRACT
Such demands for citizen participation in decisions aecting the built environment have gured prominently in the discussions of the new, politically committed movement. The return to participatory architecture and urbanism has often blurred disciplinary boundaries between activism, art, architecture and urbanism. Whereas ‘artistic models of democracy have only a tenuous relationship to actual forms of democracy’, as art critic Claire Bishop has argued convincingly (Bishop 2012: 5), in the realm of the built environment, the relation of democratic models to architectural and urban practice is less haphazard, though certainly requires much elaboration and scrutiny.
