LLED 565D

framing an issue

• Who closed off the commons?
• What reasons did they have?
• How was this enclosure actualized?
• Where, when and why?

CASE STUDY: KENROKUEN

• A classical Chinese garden
• located in Kanazawa, Japan
• 兼六園 = ken 兼 roku 六 en 園
• Lord Maeda's private backyard
• circa 1592, made public 1874

A representation of nature

Still very much a human construct

Effort to keep a "pure" public garden

"a correspondingly deep pessimism about the possibility of managing resources that are either commonly owned or owned by no one." (p. 47)

Boyle's Second Enclosure
Movement

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“Quick! Do something the law of intellectual property
might forbid.” (p. 50)


Boyle, J. (2008). The public domain: Enclosing the commons of the mind. New Haven: Yale UP.