
Conference programme
Events with asterisks (*) are special events
Day 1: August 26th, 2026
Time | Stream 1 | Stream 2 | Stream 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
9.00-10.00 | Welcome and registration | ||
10.15-11.45 | P1 Social infrastructure and the commons 1 | P2 Displacement and resistance in the age of commercial gentrification | P3 Informality, gentrification and urban authoritarianism in the Global South 1 |
12.00-13.30 | Lunch | ||
13.30-15.00 | P4 Social infrastructure and the commons 2 | P5* From rent strikes to urban justice: Collective struggles for housing and the Right to the City | P6 Informality, gentrification and urban authoritarianism in the Global South 2 |
15.00-15.30 | Fika | ||
15.30-17.00 | Keynote speaker Ana Vilenica: Deadly Urbanism and Counterplanning for Connectedness | ||
Day 2: August 27th, 2026
Time | Stream 1 | Stream 2 | Stream 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
9.00-10.30 | P7 Infrastructures for sustaining activist research in urban struggles 1 | P8 Social infrastructure and the commons 3 | P9 Deviant sexualities: Authoritarian urbanism, neoliberal capital and urban transformations 1 |
10.45-12.15 | P10 Infrastructures for sustaining activist research in urban struggles 2 | P11 Knowledge production in a world of crisis: Reviving and updating workers’ inquiry 1 | P12 Deviant sexualities: Authoritarian urbanism, neoliberal capital and urban transformations 2 |
12.15-13.30 | Lunch | ||
13.30-15.00 | P13 Contested legacies: Linking struggles against overtourism and mega-events | P14 Knowledge production in a world of crisis: Reviving and updating workers’ inquiry 2 | P15 The right to the city begins with an address: Challenges, limits, and alternatives in struggles for urban justice |
15.00-15.30 | Fika | ||
15.30-17.00 | P16* The Big Game–Militant Documentary, mega-event harms, and audiovisual research | P17 Housing as a commons under authoritarian Urbanism: Grassroots documentation, evictions, and counter-knowledge | P18* The right to the city begins with the right to an address: Scaling postal addressing as urban justice infrastructure |
18.30-20.00 | Social dinner | ||
Day 3: August 28th, 2026
Time | Stream 1 | Stream 2 | Steam 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
9.00-10.30 | P19 Struggles for urban commons in/against the ‘ordinary’ local state 1 | P20 Decommodifying construction: labour, materials, and urban space production | P21 From the streets to the mic: Creative methods, storytelling, and cultural production as urban commons |
10.45-12.15 | P22 Struggles for urban commons in/against the ‘ordinary’ local state 2 | P23 A feminist social provisioning? The potentials and obstacles of commoning housing and care | P24 Urban justice through the lens of invisible labour: A counter-mapping exercise |
12.15-13.30 | Lunch | ||
13.30-15.00 | P25 Struggles for urban commons in/against the ‘ordinary’ local state 3 | P26 Commoning the wicked city: Addressing ill-defined issues from an ecosystemic perspective | P27 From everyday survival to urban commons in cities of crisis: Refugees’ collective navigation practices for urban justice |
15.00-15.30 | Fika | ||
15.30-17.00 | P28 Walking the contested city: Mapping visible and invisible housing struggles in Uppsala's living laboratory | ||
Full programme
Day 1: August 26th
9:00 – 10:00 Registration and Welcome
10:15 – 11:45 Parallel sessions
Panel 1: Social infrastructure and the commons 1
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Sander van Lanen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Sara Nikolić and Dušanka Milosavljević, University of Belgrade | Insurgent homemaking: Reclaiming learning infrastructure through care and commoning |
Louwrens Botha, Eindhoven University of Technology | Infrastructuring the commons, or commoning urban infrastructures? Tensions and ambivalences from Dutch community living rooms |
Inga Strauss and Johanna Lilius, University of Helsinki and Aalto University | Collaborative housing associations as micro-planners of the neighbourhood social infrastructure–A Case study from Hamburg, Germany |
Panel 2: Displacement and resistance in the age of commercial gentrification
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Francesca Ru, Uppsala University
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Giuseppe Servino, University of Milano Bicocca | The paper mill and the supermarket: Spectral gentrification, eviction, and the politics of commercial space in Milan's Greco neighbourhood |
Hugo Pilate and Pedro Gil Farias | Lagares do Alvará: Speculating alternatives to urban touristification |
Francesca Ru, Uppsala University | Is the market the solution? A sociological analysis of the role of marketplaces in gentrifying contexts |
Ebru Kamaci Karahan and Sinem Tapki, Bursa Technical University | Walking the unmapped: Commercial gentrification, social rhythms, and invisible networks of resistance at the Karaköy-Perşambe Pazarı, İstanbul |
Panel 3: Informality, gentrification and urban authoritarianism in the Global South 1
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Juan Pérez Ventura, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Varun Patil, University of Erfurt | Displacement and resistance in Dharavi |
Fernando Gutiérrez, University College London | Living through housing eviction and the resistance to gentrification in Mexico City |
Akash K. S., University of Hyderabad | Produced informality and urban revalorisation in Hyderabad |
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Parallel sessions
Panel 4: Social infrastructure and the commons 2
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Sander van Lanen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Katherine Stansfeld and Miriam Burke, London Development Trust and University College London | Social Infrastructures of Care and Repair: Young People Reimagining the Urban Commons |
Vishal Yadav, Indian Institute of Technology Patna | (Un)Commoners of the Cities: Counter-Mapping Sleep and Nocturnal Citizenship in Cities of Sleep (2015) |
Bart Popken, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy | Placemaking as Unmaking: The Rise and Fall of the Betoncentrale as Informal Social Infrastructure in Ghent's Harbour Area |
Panel 5: From rent strikes to urban justice: Collective struggles for housing and the Right to the City
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Nikos Vrantsis, Uppsala University
Book talk with authors and discussants.
Book 1:
Rent strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world (Poy & Rolf, 2025, UCL Press)
Book 2:
Urban struggles in Sweden: In need of a new approach? (Kings & Polanska, 2026, Palgrave Macmillan)
Panelist | Affiliation |
|---|---|
Dominika V. Polanska | Södertörn University, Stockholm University |
Hannes Rolf | Stockholm University |
Lisa Kings | Södertörn University |
Lucas Poy | IISG |
Panel 6: Informality, gentrification and urban authoritarianism in the Global South 2
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Juan Pérez Ventura, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Stela Muci, Université Paris 8 | Tirana 2030: Urban revalorisation, extra-legal dynamics and authoritarian governance in a would-be "European Capital" |
Athira Raj, Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences | The visual politics of urban redevelopment: Aesthetics and belonging in urban India |
Firasha Shaikh, Mahindra University | Indirect, deferred and exclusionary displacement in Pune |
15:30 – 17:00 Keynote speaker Ana Vilenica
Ana Vilenica is a researcher, writer, and organiser affiliated with Södertörn University and the University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. She is involved with the Ultra-red Journal and has spent the last ten years building and maintaining the Radical Housing Journal. Her work focuses on urban and housing struggles, extractivism and anti-extractivist movements, internationalism, and the periphery in movement.
17:30 – 19:00 Optional social drinks at TBC (tables are booked, but attendees pay for their food and drinks)
Day 2: August 27th
9:00 – 10:30 Parallel sessions
Panel 7: Infrastructures for sustaining activist research in urban struggles 1
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Ana Vilenica, Södertörn University and University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory and Dominika V. Polanska, Södertörn University/Stockholm University
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Tommy Gavin, Trinity College Dublin | Insurgent counter-archiving in the Irish Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) |
Kirsteen Paton, Joey Simons, Kirsten Lloyd, Lily Brown, University of Glasgow, Edinburgh College of Art and Newcastle University | Build-from-below: Exploring the political possibilities of housing struggle archiving, working-class knowledge production and infrastructures |
Ana Vilenica, Södertörn University and University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory | International comradeship as infrastructure: For, against and beyond research |
Lukas Kotyk, University of West Bohemia | Cracking infrastructures: The limits of activist research in a social movement in decline |
Panel 8: Social infrastructure and the commons 3
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Sander van Lanen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Sander van Lanen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Commoning care through social infrastructure: State-led interventions for care commons in the Netherlands |
Samuel Faber, Stockholm University | Hollow common spaces: Discourse on local participation as legitimizer of neoliberalism |
Nishita Sharma and Michael Ian Borer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas | When social infrastructure disappears: Designed absence, automobility, and the parochial realm in Las Vegas |
Canan Çetin, Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi | The scarcity trap: Physical deprivation and the gatekeeper reflex in Türkiye |
Panel 9: Deviant sexualities: Authoritarian urbanism, neoliberal capital and urban transformations 1
Room:
TBC, all online presenters
Organizer/Moderator:
Aravind Raveendran, KREA University; Tridib Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati; Dr. Rama Devi, Centre De Sciences Humaines; Shatarupa Paul, The YP Foundation
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Sikha Mohanty, IIT Patna | Whose city? Whose labour?: The Dhandewaali and the politics of urban public life |
Julian Lamborlem Roy Jyrwa, NIAS Bangalore & MAHE Manipal | Intra-national racialisation, platformed desire, and stratified urban belonging |
Sutapa Majumdar | Home, ownership and precarity: A study of property relations and political economy of sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata |
Aravind Raveendran, KREA University | Invisible Proximities: Desire, Disgust and the Digital Queer in Urban Kerala |
10:45 – 12:15 Parallel sessions
Panel 10: Infrastructures for sustaining activist research in urban struggles 2
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Ana Vilenica, Södertörn University and University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory and Dominika V. Polanska, Södertörn University/Stockholm University
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Pietro Violo, Julien Fréchette, and Yanick Charette, Université de Montréal and Université Laval | Housing and resident characteristics associated with use of the Montreal rental registry |
Nils Müller, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Creating spaces against peripheralization: A framework for activist research infrastructure |
Gemma Carolina Leyva Machiche, Universidad de Guadalajara | Building Commoning Knowledge Infrastructures. The City Seminar as Activist-Research on Urban Struggles in Guadalajara, Mexico |
Lotte Christiaens, Universiteit Gent |
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Ummiye Mutlu, University of Cambridge | Activating urban memory: Cambridge [urban] room and temporal resistance to extractive planning |
Panel 11: Knowledge production in a world of crisis: Reviving and updating workers’ inquiry 1
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Nikos Vrantsis, Uppsala University
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Kevin Van Meter, Union organizer and author | Workers’ inquiry in contemporary US struggles |
Xabier I. Villares, Worker Observatory | Organising through workers’ Inquiry: The Workers’ Observatory |
Nikos Vrantsis, Uppsala University | Tenants’ inquiry: Knowledge production and class recomposition under rentier capitalism |
Mae de Monchy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Critical monitoring: Workers’ inquiry and anti-displacement in Brussels |
Panel 12: Deviant sexualities: Authoritarian urbanism, neoliberal capital and urban transformations 2
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Aravind R., KREA University; Tridib Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati; Dr. Rama Devi, Centre De Sciences Humaines; Shatarupa Paul, The YP Foundation
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Charul Mehndiratta, NUS Singapore | Trans*portation: Reading the Delhi metro as a conduit of sexuality |
Vasundra Venkatesh, Shiv Nadar University | Imagining futures: Transitioning, trans pregnancies, trans parenthood |
Dipannita Saha, IGNOU | Lightless boxes and fragile commons: Trans homemaking, brahminical biopolitics, and the neoliberal-authoritarian housing regime in Delhi |
Tridib Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati | The neighbours of the brothel: Reflections from ethnographic fieldwork in Silchar, India |
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Parallel sessions
Panel 13: Contested legacies: Linking struggles against overtourism and mega-events
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Federico Smania and Silvia Cesa-Bianchi, University of Milano-Bicocca and Sciences Po Paris
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Anis Lofti, Politecnico of Milan | National giga projects vs. heritage conservation: The paradox of spectacle in Diriyah |
Michael O'Reagan, Glasgow Caledonian University | The ‘invasion-to-management’ retreat: Deconstructing overtourism as a toxic legacy of mega-event governance |
Ismaele Boscolo, University of Milano-Bicocca | Touristification on Lake Como, Italy: The case of Varenna |
Muzamil Yakoob, School of Public Policy, IIT Delhi | Spatial justice and resource governance: The Himalayan perspective |
Panel 14: Knowledge production in a world of crisis: Reviving and updating workers’ inquiry 2
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Nikos Vrantsis, Uppsala University
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
M. Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, St. Gkialis, D. Gourzis and D. Kostopoulos, Labour Geography Research Lab | Acts of hindrance in contemporary workers’ struggles: A labour geography perspective |
Giovanna Marrazzo, University of Milano-Bicocca | Deliveries at home: Platform work and social delivery |
Jack Edmunds-Bergin, Maynooth University | Precarity and dual power: The political composition of Ireland’s working class |
Miranda Strominger, City University of New York | Oppositional home-work: Workers’ inquiry and ‘decommodified’ housing |
Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows, UCL Bartlett | Decolonising knowledge production: Learning from Nakshi Kantha |
Panel 15: The right to the city begins with an address: Challenges, limits, and alternatives in struggles for urban justice
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Beatriz Palmeira, Juciela Cristina dos Santos, Rafaela Faciola Coelho de Sousa Ferreira and Andreia Nunes Estevam, State Secretariat for Transport and Urban Development (SETRAND) of Alagoas and Federal University of Alagoas
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Hugo Lindberg, Anamo | Unaddressed lives: Temporariness and the politics of recognition in Northern Sweden’s construction boom |
Arunima Tripathi, Jawaharlal Nehru University | Addressing the sacred: Urban spatial governance and the Kashi Vishwanath corridor |
Aram Hassan, Bahcesehir University, Faculty Of Architecture | Governing through fragmentation: Checkpoints, addressing, and the politics of visibility in Palestinian urban space |
Anshira K K, Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Address, urban citizenship, and the Right to the City: Migrant workers and the politics of recognition in Bengaluru |
15:00 – 15:30 Fika
15:30 – 17:00 Parallel sessions
Panel 16: The Big Game–Militant Documentary, mega-event harms, and audiovisual research
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Federico Smania, University of Milano-Bicocca; Lab "The Big Game" - OffTopic - (CIO) Unsustainable Olympics Committee
Movie screening followed by a moderated discussion.
Discussants | Affiliation |
|---|---|
Federico Smania | University of Milano-Bicocca |
Lab "The Big Game" - OffTopic - (CIO) Unsustainable Olympics Committee |
Panel 17: Housing as a commons under authoritarian Urbanism: Grassroots documentation, evictions, and counter-knowledge
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Kehinde Adegboyega, Deji Akinpelu and Buhlee Booi, Human Rights Journalists Network Nigeria, Rethinking Cities and Ndifuna Ukwazi
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Alima El Bajnouni, COMUE Paris Est Sup | Addressing housing inequalities through coproduction and knowledge sharing: Methods and perspectives in Marseille Fairville Lab |
Olasumbo Temitope Olaniyi, University of Plymouth | Auto photography as participatory evidence: Resident-generated imagery in the study of informal urbanism in Lagos, Nigeria |
Tommy Gavin, Trinity College Dublin | Eviction resistance and counter-knowledges of property in the Irish radical housing movement |
Danielle Kerrigan, Researcher | Tenant internationalism: Collaborating to build counter knowledges across borders |
Panel 18: The right to the city begins with the right to an address: Scaling postal addressing as urban justice infrastructure
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Beatriz Palmeira, Juciela Cristina dos Santos, Rafaela Faciola Coelho de Sousa Ferreira and Andreia Nunes Estevam, State Secretariat for Transport and Urban Development (SETRAND) of Alagoas and Federal University of Alagoas
This session is a roundtable with invited experts from the State of Alagoas.
18:30 – 20:00 Social dinner at TBC
(attendees are asked to confirm in advance and pay in cash at the venue)
Day 3: August 28th
9:00 – 10:30 Parallel sessions
Panel 19: Struggles for urban commons in/against the ‘ordinary’ local state 1
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Timothy Joubert, University of Sheffield
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Borys Cieślak, Gran Sasso Science Institute | Local self-government against the state: Resistance of polish municipalities to creeping centralization |
Cristian Raggio, KU Leuven | Variegated contestation: Unpacking the spatio-temporal dynamics of new municipalism |
Furkan Turk, Zeynep Nur Gun and Duygu Cihanger Ribeiro, Middle East Technical University | Negotiated tolerance: Urban commons and the local state in Turkey |
Neli Demireva, University of Essex | The role of urban food growing projects and associated food hubs in addressing local food vulnerability and strengthening social ties |
Panel 20: Decommodifying construction: labour, materials, and urban space production
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Maria Wallstam and Nikos Vrantsis, Uppsala University
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Kurt Iveson, University of Sydney | Building a city for the people: Sydney’s green ban movement and the decommodification of city-making |
Naresh Sub, University of Hyderabad | Material production of space: Centering the construction sector in spatial theory |
Hugo Lindberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Regimes of temporariness: Construction, migration and colonial continuities in Sápmi |
Federico Smania, University of Milano-Bicocca | “There are alternatives to square boxes”: Architectural uprising and aesthetic resistance |
Panel 21: From the streets to the mic: Creative methods, storytelling, and cultural production as urban commons
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Robinson Chivila Jambo, Taylor Torch Media Practitioner & Peacebuilder – Kenya Together in Transition Initiative | Acha Gun Shika Mic
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Keshabhai Marvada, Centre for Culture and Development - India | Writing Ahmedabad otherwise:Caste, city, and Dalit subjectivity in an authoritarian age |
Diyali Bhattacharya, National Institute of Technology Silchar | Songs of water, infrastructures of care: Jaladarsha and the making of ecological commons in Kolkata |
Suzan Walters, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY | A photovoice exhibition featuring stories from Harlem and Washington Heights |
10:45 – 12:15 Parallel sessions
Panel 22: Struggles for urban commons in/against the ‘ordinary’ local state 2
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Timothy Joubert, University of Sheffield
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Konstantin Tarasov, University of Nottingham | House committees between urban commons and the Soviet local state, 1917–1930s |
Marko Gavrilović, Researcher | Urban commoning beyond municipalism: Negotiating the local state in post-socialist Serbia |
Sourav Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai | Producing order in colonial spaces: Claiming and commoning in colonial Delhi: 1857-1947 |
Javier Ruiz-Tagle, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | Political subjectivation through housing policy instruments: Housing committees and the governance of scarcity in Chile |
Panel 23: A feminist social provisioning? The potentials and obstacles of commoning housing and care
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Katalin Ámon, Fanni Dés and Angelina Kussy ELTE Centre for Social Sciences and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Mridula Manglam, Researcher | Mapping everyday utopias amid crisis |
Corinna Dengler and Quirin Dammerer, WU Vienna | Social-ecological provisioning, care, and the politics of shared housing in Vienna |
Noelia Teijeiro, University of A Coruña | Commoning housing and care in ageing societies: Potentials and limits of collaborative housing initiatives in Spain |
Panel 24: Urban justice through the lens of invisible labour: A counter-mapping exercise
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Joseph Edward Alegado, Aksha Fernandez and Justin See, The Australian National University, Kyoto SOKENDAI University and University of Melbourne
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Ianthi Papadema, Cyprus University of Technology | Riders of the city: Spatial practices of migrant food-delivery workers in Limassol, Cyprus |
Ahana Ganguly, IILM University | Reading the justice for RG Kar Movement in an urban context of India with a Dalit Feminist lens: A focused ethnographic study |
Joseph Edward Alegado, The Australian National University | Visual ethnography and photovoice methodology: Reflections from zero-waste field sites in the Philippines |
Aksha Fernandez, Kyoto SOKENDAI University | A researcher’s reflections on transect walks with garment workers in the city of Bangalore |
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Parallel sessions
Panel 25: Struggles for urban commons in/against the ‘ordinary’ local state 3
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Timothy Joubert, University of Sheffield
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Tendai Nzonzo, University of Cambridge | Governance under impossible conditions: Sovereign debt, infrastructural warfare, and urban water crisis in Harare, Zimbabwe |
Rositsa Kratunkova, Södertön University | Fighting for the commons: Activist struggles for access to water in Bulgaria |
Nadine Khayat and Clare Rishbeth, University of Beirut | Experiences of leisure, governance and protest in the coastline spaces of Beirut |
Rosa Arma, Universidade de Lisboa | “Holding Hands”: Community-based construction through state presence/absence |
Panel 26: Commoning the wicked city: Addressing ill-defined issues from an ecosystemic perspective
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Verena Lenna, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Marta De Marchi and Alessia Franzese, Università Iuav di Venezia | The Venice Lagoon as a wicked problem: Governing socio-ecological issues through a common dimension |
Jeremy Cox, University of Technology Sydney | Institutional learning and the epistemological case for energy communities |
Shirley E. Mambadzo, Nyasha Magadzire and Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor, University of Stellenbosch | Polycentric governance in practice: Urban agriculture governance in Windhoek, Namibia |
Nosayaba O. Oka, University of Gloucestershire | Commoning the green transition: Re-framing lithium and cobalt resource extraction in rural social-ecological systems as an urban wicked problem |
Panel 27: From everyday survival to urban commons in cities of crisis: Refugees’ collective navigation practices for urban justice
Room:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Zerrin Ezgi Haliloğlu Kahraman, Cankaya University
Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|
Zerrin Ezgi Haliloğlu Kahraman, Sıla Şahin and Damla Işıklılar, Cankaya University and Geneva Graduate Institute | When everyday survival becomes commoning: Refugees’ collective housing navigation under multiple crises in Turkish cities |
Fatma Gül Eryılmaz Şenvardar, Istanbul Technical University | From everyday navigation to collective urban capacities: Home-making practices of Syrian refugees in Istanbul |
Oldouz Nejadi, Södertörn University | Everyday socio-environmental relations and the struggle for urban justice in Fittja, Stockholm |
Keynote speaker: Professor Murat Erdoğan | Refugee cities as common ground: Imagining an inevitable coexistence and a shared future |
15:00 – 15:30 Fika
15:30 – 17:00
Panel 28: Walking the contested city: Mapping visible and invisible housing struggles in Uppsala's living laboratory
Meet up location:
TBC
Organizer/Moderator:
Nadia Bertolino, University of Pavia & Architecture of Care Collective
A walking tour around key neighbourhoods in Uppsala. Multiple groups will be formed in order to walk through the city with ease.
Contact
- Francesca Ru
- francesca.ru@ibf.uu.se
- Cloe St-Hilaire
- csthilaire@uwaterloo.ca