Communalty. A study on the 'duration' of interaction situations in urban contexts

Abstract

This work will consider the notion of 'commonality" to study the temporal magnitude of interaction situations (ecologies) in urban contexts. Three elements are taken into account: 1) the role of individual perception in the composition of parameters for social action; 2) the operation of an epistemic exercise (objectualization) that allows individuals and society to manage the perceived; 3) and how this exercise becomes 'common' to actors through the proximity of perceptions (commonality). Finally it is suggested that the density of 'commonality' in individual's perception may be useful to understand the temporal magnitude of interaction situations in urban contexts