Common spaces emerge as threshold spaces, spaces which are not demarcated by defining a perimeter. Whereas public space bears the mark of a prevailing authority which defines it and controls its use, common space is opened space, space in a process of opening towards “newcomers”. Parallel to Rancière’s understanding of a “democracy to come”, common space is characterized by an “infinite openness to the Other or the newcomer”. Common spaces are porous spaces, spaces in movement and spaces-as-passages. Divisions in space, which were necessary for the creation of micro-communities, did not result in space deparmentalizazion. Micro-squares were porous themselves, and a network of spaces-as-passages constituted a spatial arrangement which resembled a miniature city, a miniature tent city with its open-air spaces. A “communal atmosphere” transformed the square into “a living and breathing microcosm of a civil sphere”.