Category: Commons
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Back to the academic front…
Back in the trenches, getting ready for the new semester with two courses to teach, ‘Ciudad y Urbanismo’ —an introduction to the analysis of urban processes, related bog in Spanish here— and ‘Taller de Urbanismo’. The latter is a workshop in the new Master in Design of our School of Architecture, part of an educational…
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¿Diseñar los comunes urbanos?
Un interesante encuentro reunió hace poco a Atelier d’architecture autogérée, Assembly SE8 y Public Works en LSE con motivo del concurso ‘Designing the urban commons’. Tanto el coloquio como el concurso fueron organizados por Theatrum Mundi. Pueden encontrar el audio del debate aquí. De acuerdo con la hipótesis general del debate: el diseño puede servir…
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New article in Antipode | ‘Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons’
My latest article, ‘Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons’, is now available online at the early view webpage of Antipode. This was a great opportunity to sum up some of my recent explorations of the historical geography of enclosure, tracking its morphologies on a range of different periods and scales;…