This conference is to be held in July 2024 at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

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ARCHITECTURE and CITIES – Governing the Ecosystem Commons

Dates: 15-17 July, 2024


A conference track led by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya at the Cultural Pasts Conference, Barcelona, July, 2024.


Place: Barcelona & Virtual

Abstracts: 10 Dec, 2023 (Round 1) | 25 April, 2024 (Round 2)

https://amps-research.com/barcelona-ecosystem-commons/

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Track Call:

The urban commons is a well established concept among scholars who advocate for sustainable and equitable access to wealth in cities. It is premised on the idea that the collective ownership and management of resources can be a solution to many of the challenges that our living environments face today. “Commoning the city” thus involves, te devising of alternatives to traditional top-down and centralized approaches to planning that have led to the current socio-environmental crisis.

However, it has also been argued that bottom-up initiatives might not suffice in dealing with complex and long-term challenges. For example, Srnicek, and Williams argue that they are limited by structural conditions such as ‘dysfunctional horizontality’ in decision making and the need for the performative translation of actions in the short term. 

This view advocates for more durable and systemic change in which individuals engage in ‘constitutional choice actions’ in relation to urban resources. For theorist such as Schlager and Ostrom ‘constitutional rights’ must be enacted across spheres, not just in questions of land use but also in relation to issues such as water, air quality and clean energy to name but a few.

Within this context, Governing the Ecosystem Commons calls for varied reflections on the relationship between bottom-up initiatives on the one hand, and systemic and long-term urban planning strategies on the other. Contributions on innovative urban planning codes and regulations committed to climate change adaptation are especially welcome.


https://amps-research.com/barcelona-ecosystem-commons/

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