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The increasing polarization of sustainability debates has enhanced the need for designers to re-engage with the politics of sustainable futures. This paper particularly explores these debates in (Flemish suburban) dwelling contexts, where sustainable development strategies such as densification and depaving trigger conflicts between dwellers, policy-makers, designers and organisations. We researched how a design anthropological approach could enable design researchers to go beyond polarization by collaboratively researching the politics of how dwelling futures are being shaped in people's everyday lives. We particularly explored the co-production, curation and reworking of dwelling patterns as an approach that can combine the situated approach of design anthropology and the dialogical approach of participatory design in engaging with the politics of everyday dwelling and dwelling futures. ; This study was supported by ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures(ENSUF), Urban Europe, 2017-2019 and by the Special Research Fund(BOF) of Hasselt University. Our research was developed in the frameworkof the CAPA.CITY project. We would like to thank all the partners of theproject, we would like to especially thank Thomas Lomm ee for its collabora-tion and for supporting us to develop the prototyping toolkit via the opensource system OpenStructures

The proposal1 presents a situated action that exhibits a Participatory Design project called "Everyone shares in Hasselt". It discusses the role of PD in contemplating and articulating the political potential of spatial commoning. It does this by exploring the relation between how communities organise themselves around their common concerns, goods or information (i.e. commoning) - often on a micro-level - and how they depend on, relate or act against various institutional frames on a meso- and macro-scale (i.e. institutioning). This leads to an exhibition that, through design proposals, reflects on and articulates the political potential of spatial commoning practices in Hasselt that evolve around four clusters: care-, value-, trade- and need-based sharing. These proposals reveal opportunities for PD researchers to give form to institutioning as a conscious design practice in projects, when they want to explore the political potential of self-initiated and sometimes self-centered commoning practices and enter into dialogue with them as a resource in professional practices of policy-making, project development, architecture etc.Full text at ACM