11th International Forum on Urbanism (IFOU) Congress, Barcelona, 10-12 December 2018 Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation, Aligning Sustainability and Resilience Page 1 of 16 Title of the paper: Rethinking Urban Commons in the Age of Augmented Transductive Territorial Production: Detecting Resilience in Semi-Public Space of Simulative Relational Assemblages Topic: 4 – Community Resilience Paper type: Long conference - mixed method Author: Manfredo Manfredini, School of Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Abstract Considering social cohesion a primary factor for the development of sustainable and resilient cities facing the fast and radical anthropological changes generated by digital technology, this paper addresses the socio-spatial implications of the transformation of relationality networks. It focuses on the forces behind latent struggles in contested central urban spaces of rapidly developing contemporary cities. Firstly, it formulates a theoretical framework to analyse how hegemonic economic powers have enhanced crucial urban problems, such as socio-spatial fragmentation, polarisation, and inequality. Secondly it discusses criticalities and opportunities emerging from the conflicts between the forces that control and expand the digitally augmented networkability of key common urban asset. The theoretical framework is developed from a comparative critical urbanism approach inspired by the right to the city and the right to difference, and elaborates the discourse on sustainable development that informs the United Nations’ New Urban Agenda. The discussion is structured to shed light on specific socio-spatial relational practices that counteract the dissipation of the “common worlds” caused by sustained processes of urban gentrification and homogenisation. The analysis of digitally augmented geographies focuses on their capacity to reintroduce practices of participation and commoning that reassemble fragmented relational infrastructures, translocally combining social, cultural and material elements. Empirical studies on the production of advanced simulative and transductive spatialities in places of enhanced consumption found in Asian and Australasian cities ground the discussion. These provide evidence of the extension in which of the agency of the augmented territorialisation forces in the reconstitution of inclusive and participatory systems of relationality. The concluding notes, speculating on the emancipatory potential found in these social laboratories, call for a radical redefinition of the approach to the problem of the urban commons. Such a change would improve the capacity of urbanism disciplines to adequately engage with the digital turn and efficaciously contribute to a maximally different spatial production that enhances and strengthen democracy and pluralism in the public sphere. https://sciforum.net/manuscripts/6002/manuscript.pdf