Engagement Spaces

Engagement spaces are defined as designed interaction arenas in which actors, within explicit rules and boundary conditions, are enabled to arrive at coordination, cooperation, and learning themselves.  For instance to govern a natural resource as a commons, or to organize a shared task, or to collectively use a limited and relatively inflexible resource (such as  infrastructure roads, charging, locks, docks, or facilities like hospitals ).  A roundabout is  popular example of an engagement space, as an alternative to intersections with traffic lights.