Category: Commons

Kristin Ross on the political ecology of ZADs and free communes

Nov 2, 2019

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asevillab

in Anarchism, Commons

Here is the video of a recent talk by Kristin Ross at an event organized by the Critical Theory Workshop in the University of Pennsylvania. Ross focuses on the experience of the ZAD (Zone à défendre, Zone to be defended) in Notre-Dame-des-Landes—a self-managed camp against the development of a new airport near Nantes—and explores the…
Back to the blog

Mar 21, 2018

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in Commons, Comunes, Crisis, Dictatorships and Urbanism, Diseño urbano, Dispossession, Espacio y política, Historia del urbanismo, Landscape architecture, Landscape theory, Martin Wagner, Mis publicaciones, My research, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Social History of Planning, Teoría urbana, Urban design, Urban Theory Lab

It has been almost six months since the last post on this blog — I had not realized that it had reached over 1,000 followers during this period, thank you all for reading! Besides the typically frantic teaching and management schedules here in Madrid, this absence is due to additional tasks related to my appointment…
Mapping Workers’ Councils, 1917-1927

Apr 19, 2017

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asevillab

in Cartografías / Representaciones del espacio, Commons, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Marxism, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Movimientos sociales

libcom.org has launched a very interesting initiative to map workers’ councils as they spread across Europe and beyond in the years following the 1917 revolutions in Russia. Each case includes a reference to articles or books where more information can be found. The project has just begun and the team is still working on the…
Landscape struggles, environmental hegemonies and the politics of urban design

Mar 21, 2017

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asevillab

in Central Park, Commons, Espacio social, Landscape architecture, Landscape theory, Mis publicaciones, My research, Planning history, Political economy, Political urbanism, Politics, Sin categoría, Space and politics, Urban design, Urban politics, Urban studies

In a previous post I announced the publication of a new article about Central Park in Environment and Planning D, this time focusing on the governmental and strategic role of the park’s schemein the context of local struggles to consolidate or challenge existing hegemonies. For that purpose I elaborated a theoretical framework around the concept…
Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA

Feb 22, 2017

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in Architecture, Commons, Dispossession, Enclosure, Modernism, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning

I’ll be giving a talk at the AA School of Architecture next week (March 1st, 6:30PM, more info here), in the context of the PhD programme coordinated by Maria S. Giudici and Pier Vittorio Aureli. As I mentioned in a previous post they are doing amazing work with their students on the topics of territory,…
Reclaiming the Commons | Critical art and translocality

Nov 22, 2016

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in Commons, Enclosure, Sin categoría

Next week I will join a number of artists, activists and scholars at Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst to participate in the symposium ‘How critique becomes translocal – Reclaiming the commons’. Here is the presentation of the event: In 2014, Mexican artist Teresa Margolles presented her installation La Búsqueda at Migrosmuseum in Zurich. The…
Common goods | Interview with Ugo Mattei

Nov 4, 2016

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asevillab

in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Sin categoría

An interview with Ugo Mattei (in Italian) about his book Beni Comuni: Un Manifesto (Laterza, 2012; Spanish translation by Trotta, 2013) and the struggles against water privatization in Italy. He has also published material on this topic in English, e.g. his ‘Social movements as constituent power: the Italian struggle for the commons’, Indiana Journal of…
Publications

Sep 20, 2016

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asevillab

in Central Park, Commons, Conflicto urbano, Diseño urbano, Espacio y política, Landscape architecture, Mis publicaciones

I have updated the list of publications to share the preprint version of ‘Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park: environmental hegemonies, pedagogical spaces and integral state formations’ (via academia.edu)—forthcoming soon in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space—and to include several other links to previous work.
Parks, politics, and the general interest | Design studio at the School of Madrid

Sep 19, 2016

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in Commons, Comunes, Conflicto urbano, Diseño urbano, Espacio público, Espacio y política

During this semester one of the courses I coordinate, ‘Urbanism and the City,’ will focus on the district of Chamberí, in Madrid, and particularly on some of its sites in contention, especially Parque Santander, better known as Parque del Canal de Isabel II, a space located over one of the biggest water reservoirs of the…
A prelude to urban renewal | Martin Wagner against the commons

Dec 7, 2015

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in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Martin Wagner, My research, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning

I have been away from the blog for a little while—this time, in addition to the usual excuses of work overload, due to the paperwork and related administrative hustle and bustle for an upcoming visit to Harvard Graduate School of Design. I have been awarded a Fulbright grant to be back in Cambridge next Spring…