In 2015 the Airbnb headquarters in San Francisco were occupied by housing activists who protested against the city's increasing housing prises. They pointed out how Airbnb's short-term rentals in the city lead to gentrification and to local residents being displaced from their homes. As a result, many people become homeless and can not return to the city again. Airbnb is no longer the sharing-economic success story it appeared to be. Is the sharing economy, in fact, as some activists' banners stated a 'taking economy'; Is Airbnb about sharing or commodification? In this article we discuss the consequences of Airbnb in Barcelona and Copenhagen. We hope to raise awareness about the flipside of Airbnb and thus contribute to an informed debate about regulation of short and long-term subletting. (Less)

Fabian and Rowan explore how notions of creativity, participation, and work have been deployed and reformulated in discourses, policy frameworks, and economic models designed in order to transform cultural practices into economic activities. The figure of the cultural entrepreneur and the widespread promotion of intellectual property is analysed as part of the neoliberalisation of the wider economy. As an alternative figure to the cultural entrepreneur that reproduces the premise of "individual creativity," the chapter identifies contemporary examples of creative and cultural practices where social cooperation are central to cultural production, despite the normative framework of policies, schemes, and institutions aimed at promoting the creative industries and its implicit notion of individual creativity.

In this introductions the authors frames the concept of participation as it works across a range of institutions and disciplinary contexts. The different institutional and disciplinary fields often interact indirectly by building on the same or interconnected ideals, logics and discourses or by using the same or similar theories. But it is quite rare that spaces enabling interaction and learning about cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary participation are created. This special issue is an attempt to do just that, and thus also to stress the importance of such transdisciplinary ‘spaces’ of learning and knowledge. By facilitating such transdisciplinary spaces this issue strives to: show how various disciplines understand, use and design ‘participation’; learn from already established insights and faults; potentially develop common understandings of what participation is; understand how ideal and processes of participation are linked to structures of power; and create better tools or models to explore, valuate and create participatory values, qualities and effects among researchers and practitioners. The articles in the issue are dealing with participatory processes in healthcare, political NGOs online, the cultural sector, education, employment and urban design.

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The article discuss the conflicts, potentials and possible alliances of do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism when it takes the form of spontaneous place appropriations, when it is performed as participatory urban design and when it is integrated strategically in planning. DIY urbanism and experimentation with participation are currently strong influential factors in Danish planning. The article explores the use of participatory DIY urban design in two cases: the relocation of beer drinkers in Enghave Square and the Carlsberg City development in Copenhagen, Denmark. Carlsberg City is the most thorough Danish example of how DIY urban design is employed as an investment and planning tool. It discusses the implications of DIY urbanism in terms of how it can be understood in the context of the struggles over 'the right to the city', how it applies different activist tactics for the appropriation of space, and how it is integrated in planning and the development logic.

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