In July 2016 [AUTONOMA] is bringing together in Athens, renowned scholars and practitioners from the fields of Architecture, Geography, Design, and Environmental Studies, in an effort to identify Urban Autonomy as a distinct area of research and explore its potential to address current and future socio-spatial challenges.
In a time when global financial institutions largely define the means of urbanization across the world, citizens have less and less agency in the decision-making processes related to the organization and reproduction of the urban environment. The financialization of urban development has significantly limited the potential of local communities to influence the form of cities while strengthening the role of the local elites and the supralocal capital. The present crisis, largely born of this very developmental model, along with decades of deregulation of the welfare state has acted as a catalyst to the deterioration of living conditions and the strengthening of the democratic deficit at all levels.
[KEYNOTE SPEAKERS]
Pier Vittorio Aureli • Rafi Segal • Cameron Tonkinwise • Doina Petrescu & Constantin Petcou
Erik Swyngedouw • Stavros Stavrides • Ethel Baraona Pohl & Cesar Reyes Najera
Miguel Robles Duran • Maria Kaika • Nikos Belavilas • Nikos Anastasopoulos • Léopold Lambert
[CALL FOR PAPERS & PROJECTS]
Under the three following topics, AUTONOMA is calling for proposals, studies, designs, and ideas that put local communities at the forefront of a new collective city:
01. Crisis Scapes + Self-Governance
02. Resiliency + Sustainable Resource Management
03. Transitioning to autonomy
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: 28 February 2016
SUBMISSION GUIDELINE: http://www.autonoma.gr/#!submit/zlczu
WHERE & WHEN?
(107-109 Syngrou Ave, 11745 Athens, Greece)
Friday, July 01, 2016 17.00 - 21.30
Saturday, July 02, 2016 09.00 - 21.30
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