The present research project focuses on the demolition of the National Theater and the theater-performance of ATA Kamza. Both case studies represent a friction between the urge to demolish the past in the name of a modernized Albanian cultural identity and the periphery of Kamza claiming spaces of resistance to centralized power. The project of the new theater offers a space for reflection on how former Eastern Bloc identities, shift towards forms of architectural internationalisms to provide visibility for one's own identity. These two realities expose forms of care and destruction. The project is thus very much centered in questioning a culture of clearance where commons becomes care, and care becomes an imperative to heal from the collective dispossession of commons.