Supervisor: Professor Justyna Karakiewicz
_
Otherness
We live in a brittle and coherent city with a rigid attitude searching for purity and simplicity (Sennett, 1970, p.33). In a coherent city, spatial and social boundaries are established to divide and isolate people into neatly functional wholes that prescribe to homogeneity. Atherton Gardens Housing Estate in Fitzroy colloquially known as the Commission Flats is used as a testing ground to explore the methodologies in which, boundaries are transgressed, forming porous edges that enable connections to form through the slippages of mix functions that enable complex socio-spatial practices to emerge.