On 20 April at Timelab (Ghent) Stavros Stavrides, activist and researcher on the commons, will give a lecture on how urban communities can reinvent our daily lives with new habits and rituals based on solidarity.
Common spaces produced by the development of new urban habits and deviant urban rituals are to be understood not as temporary enclaves of otherness but as thresholds which communicate and multiply. By using concrete examples from Europe and Latin America Stavros Stravides will show that explicit and implicit efforts for collective emancipation may construct emancipatory futures of commoning.
Emergent urban communities may reinvent commoning as a practice of sharing based on relations of equality and mutual support. This is a complex process through which new forms of social organization emerge. Urban commoning acquires an emancipatory potentiality when it challenges the everyday routines of social reproduction. Either by permeating everyday life or by creatively interrupting it during urban struggles, urban commoning practices activate urban potentialities.
Stavros Stavrides, architect and activist, is Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is the author of books and a series of articles that play a crucial role in both theory and practice of the city as commons. He has done extensive research fieldwork in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Mexico focused on housing-as-commons and on urban struggles for self-management.
20.04.2024
4:00pm > 5:30pm
Timelab
Kogelstraat 34, 9000 Ghent
free, but you need to register
English
Flanders Architecture Institute and Timelab
KU Leuven
This lecture signifies the start of a long-term collaboration between the Flanders Architecture Institute and Timelab, on participation, architecture and the city.
