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Common Steps starts as a site-specific project for Tbilisi. The on-going proposal, developed in the frame of Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, is focusing on neglected urban areas, formed during uncontrolled privatization. As an experiment for social re-appropriation, multiple urban stairs were selected, built in the Soviet period and currently ignored by the neo-liberal car-paradigm lifestyle. The project’s approach consisted of punctual pavilions, that directly inhabit the existing urban stairs, meanwhile generating a new use of public space. The proposal is conceived as a prototype of possible interventions within a shared methodological attitude towards re-using abandoned urban fragments for neighbourhood activities, cultural events and common means.