Essex bit-common

When new common cultural spaces open up in the public domain as they did with the internet in the 1990's, those with the proprietary right or economic might usually attempt enclosure. This activity acts as a raw siphon of economic value as well as associating with the enforcers of enclosure the powers of boundary. (inside, outside, entrance, exit)

At first, experimentation is pursued in all directions until the pathways of least resistance are charted and turned to profit - at which time generalised investment becomes scarce - investment being redirected to deepen and widen the channels of least resistance to profit. This receding wave of investment from the experimental - leaves behind islands of adventure to be colonized by artists, deviants, outsiders, asylum seekers, immigrants, pirates and the insane.

People adopt many strategies to keep their islands open and free at these moments of enclosure, they start creating protocols and formats collectively. Sailors of these isles start transporting ideas of freedom, bounty and hope to foreign ports attracting new settlements.

The media shed can be just such a settlement.