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Dear everyone,
Call for papers: EURA2020 “Contradictions Shaping Urban Futures” Oslo, June 15-17, https://www.eura2020.org/
Special session: “Practice of Urban Commoning” (Track 6)
Panel Chairs: Dr Silvia Gullino, Birmingham City University; Dr Carolina Pacchi, Politecnico di Milano
In recent years, in the face of the retreat of local welfare systems in European cities, urban scholars have increasingly investigated local citizen mobilisations aiming at taking responsibility of local commons (seen as both physical and intangible assets) that improve the quality of urban life, and that work and thrive if shareable and shared.
Following the Bologna Regulation (2012), inquiries have covered multi-layered, complex relationships between, for example: urban commons, citizens as key actors and the territorial dimension of the city; between citizens, city administration and politics; between participation, self-organised collective action and long term co-management of the commons, just to name a few (see for example, Borch and Kornberger, 2015; Chatterton, 2016; Iaione, 2015; Stavrides, 2010, 2012 and 2014).
Taking into consideration the wider and growing debate on urban commons and its relevance to several disciplines (planning, architecture, economics, geography and urban design), we argue the need for more research-based understanding of such complex relations as crucial for challenging existing models of urban development. This track wishes to promote further debate on their social/political/environmental/economic complexities, both in terms of creative practices and in terms of design agencies by starting from a few key (but not exhaustive) questions:
1. What opportunities, as well as challenges, do the rise of urban commons and urban commoning pose to both collaborative and democratic city making?
2. What role do media technologies play at supporting such bottom up, citizen-led initiatives for socially resilient cities?
3. How can collective experiences of urban commoning be scaled up?
Paper submission: If you would like to contribute to the following panel, please specify this in your abstract submission by 17 December 2019: https://www.eura2020.org/tracks-and-panels/
With best wishes,
Silvia and Carolina
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