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Mar 21, 2018

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asevillab

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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…
Common goods | Interview with Ugo Mattei

Nov 4, 2016

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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…
Teresa Caldeira on street cultures and informal urbanisms

Oct 22, 2016

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in Architectural design, Architecture, Arquitectura, Comunes, Conflicto urbano, Sin categoría

An interesting short interview with Teresa Caldeira via urbanNext, discussing the dangers and problems of architectural discourses aestheticizing so-called informal urbanisms and street cultures.
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…
Martin Wagner and the politics of capitalist urbanization

Mar 23, 2016

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in Arquitectura y crítica, Comunes, David Harvey, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Martin Wagner, Neil Brenner, Sin categoría, Urban politics, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanismo crítico

It’s been almost a month since I arrived in Cambridge to conduct a research on the work of Martin Wagner at Harvard during his appointment as a professor at the Graduate School of Design. Wagner —an engineer and planner, head of the planning office of Berlin in the second half of the 1920s— arrived here…
Especial CIUr 100 | Celebrando cien entregas de investigación urbanística

Jan 10, 2016

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in Comunes, Diseño urbano, DUyOT, Espacio público, Espacio social, Estudios urbanos / Urban Studies, Urbanismo crítico, Urbanismo España, Urbanismo sostenible, Urbanismo y sociedad

Se ha publicado el número 100 de Cuadernos de Investigación Urbanística. Aunque habitualmente CIUr lanza números monográficos con un sólo trabajo, en esta ocasión se trata de un especial de 150 páginas con 31 contribuciones de profesores del Departamento de Urbanística y Ordenación del Territorio de la UPM, en las que se exploran los campos…
A prelude to urban renewal | Martin Wagner against the commons

Dec 7, 2015

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asevillab

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…
La ciudad horizontal | Presentación en Madrid

Jun 24, 2015

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in Comunes, Conflicto urbano, Espacio social

El próximo martes 7 de julio se presentará el libro La ciudad horizontal. Urbanismo y resistencia en un barrio de casas baratas de Barcelona (Bellaterra, 2015), de Stefano Portelli. El autor, discípulo de Manuel Delgado, ofrece una exploración etnográfica de Bon Pastor y su cultura local de reivindicación popular y resistencia contra la renovación y…
García Linera y Negri: forma-comunidad y poder constituyente

Jun 8, 2015

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asevillab

in Comunes, Karl Marx, Marxismo

Les dejo el vídeo de la escala en Barcelona de la reciente gira conjunta de Álvaro García Linera y Toni Negri, presentados por Carlos Prieto en la Universitat de Barcelona. Más interesante García Linera que Negri, quizá por preocupaciones personales ahora mismo, por el entronque directo con el proyecto específico del MAS en Bolivia o…
¿Diseñar los comunes urbanos?

May 10, 2015

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asevillab

in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Espacio público, Espacio y política

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…