PUBLIC SPACE
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Anavil Ahluwalia"/>
Mapping Democracy: A Tale of Two Capitals
Anavil Ahluwalia
Capital cities have been the seat of political power and a central stage for their state’s political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. The…
Kamila Bak, Rita Berisha and Anna-Maria Grimm"/>
The Fine Line Between Protection and Citizen Control in Beirut
Kamila Bak, Rita Berisha and Anna-Maria Grimm
During the speech addressing the Protests in Lebanon in October 20191, Lebanese President Michel Aoun announced, “I heard many voices calling for t…
Kallia Fysaraki and Phaedra Kotsifaki-Sarpaki"/>
The Space of Appearance Revisited in the Occupied Squares Movement
Kallia Fysaraki and Phaedra Kotsifaki-Sarpaki
The square-movement of 2011 erupted as a protest and resistance to existing forms of governance globally. It gathered crowds from different backgro…
Nadine Hindi"/>
The Spatiality of 2019 Protests in Beirut
Nadine Hindi
On the afternoon of October 17th 2019, a long overdue protest swept all of Lebanon at once1. It spontaneously erupted across different cities and l…
Fani Kostourou and John Bingham-Hall"/>
Infrastructures for Voice
Fani Kostourou and John Bingham-Hall
We speak. Whether with our voices, our hands or through technologies, speaking is inseparable from being human. When do our words become political?…
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The Pain of Others
Sasha Kurmaz
The Pain of Others is an intervention that consists of photos, collages, posters, and banners which at first sight resemble memorial sites spontane…
Fernando Campos-Medina, Iván Ojeda-Pereira and Josefa Mattei"/>
Crowded but With Masks: On the Resilience of an Unfair Mobility, Reflections From Santiago, Chile
Fernando Campos-Medina, Iván Ojeda-Pereira and Josefa Mattei
The present photo essay seeks to visualize the resilience of a transport system and how it exposes deep social differences in Chile. On the 18th Oc…
Francesca Cocchiara"/>
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World, by Leslie Kern
Francesca Cocchiara
The experience of the city cannot be synthesized in absolute terms, yet urbanism and spatial planning have taken men’s needs as the norm, for centu…
with Pernille Bussone"/>
Cycling Without Age: The Right to Wind in Your Hair
with Pernille Bussone
Cycling Without Age (CWA) is a volunteer-based organization first started in Copenhagen in 2012. By means of a collaboration with the city municipa…
Editorial"/>
The Space of the (Re)Public
Editorial
In October 2011 a group of around 2000–3000 protesters gathered around Paternoster Square in London, shrouded in the shadow cast by St Paul’s Cathe…
– Christina Petkopoulou"/>
Athens Report: a collective archive of life and protest
– Christina Petkopoulou
athensreport.org is an interactive digital platform that maps the urban space through the route of trolley bus No. 11. It collects and archives vid…
– Anthony Maniscalco"/>
A little island on Pier 55: urban austerity and the eclipse of publicly made public space?
– Anthony Maniscalco
They say history is written by the winners. When public space is constructed and regulated at the behest of park conservancies, public-private part…
– Sonja Jankov"/>
Rooftop of the Total Palace
– Sonja Jankov
Total palaces were built all over socialist countries mostly during the 1980s, although examples can be found in prior decades. Originating from sp…
– Stephanie Newcomb"/>
Coopelluvia: facilitating urban water commoning
– Stephanie Newcomb
Southern California—specifically Los Angeles—is no stranger to water scarcity. To sustain a growing population, a hyper-centralized infrastructural…
– Spilios Iliopoulos and Michaela Loukia Litsardaki"/>
Pocket parks as spaces of “Re-public”: the experience of the Alexandrou Svolou initiative
– Spilios Iliopoulos and Michaela Loukia Litsardaki
It is very common in modern cities to find, within the urban fabric, forgotten/neglected parts,which are pieces of land that have either been abandoned in relation to an earlier…
– Elisa Privitera and Filippo Gravagno"/>
A street-explorative and interactive-designing laboratory
– Elisa Privitera and Filippo Gravagno
The current state of participatory planning in Italy tells us that, until now there are few aware and empowered experiences of urban transformative processes…
with Kevin Bennett, Fellow at the Center for Urban Design and Mental Health"/>
To be in a good place
with Kevin Bennett, Fellow at the Center for Urban Design and Mental Health
I am fascinated by the link between biophilic design and well-being. The research linking green spaces and mental health is compelling…
– Patrick Foong Chan and Camilla Lade"/>
Space activation and re-territorialisation
– Patrick Foong Chan and Camilla Lade
“Space Activation and Re-Territorialisation” examines how alleyways and lanes are transformed through the current trend of space activation. Furthe…
– Melissa Harrison"/>
The (market-) state of the “public”: reappropriating the urban as common(s)
– Melissa Harrison
Over the past decades, intensified following the 2008 financial crisis, we have witnessed geographically and qualitatively diverse assaults on the …
– Eliki-Athanasia Diamantouli and Athina Fousteri"/>
Playscapes in the city of Larissa: a participatory design approach engaging architects, children and adults
– Eliki-Athanasia Diamantouli and Athina Fousteri
In 1989, the United Nations (UN General Assembly, 1989) established the children’s right to play. As a result, cities and municipalities became responsible to fulfill this need…