Talks

2024

‘Capturing the creative commons: Autonomy and neoliberal urbanism in Milan, 1970s-2010s’ | Royal College of Art, London, December 2024.

Book presentation: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning | Institute for Metropolitan Studies, San Jose State University, November, 2024 (online).

‘Against the commons: Elements for a radical planning theory’ | Städtebau-Kolloquium, Universität Stuttgart, November 2024.

‘Urban design and planning against the commons’ | Manifesto for the Just City Workshops, TU Delft, October 2024 (online, video available here).

‘Taming the street commons: The reform of publicity in New York City and Chicago, 1850s-1910s’ | Architecture Research Colloquium, University of California Berkeley, September 2024 (online).

‘What is radical planning history?’ | 20th International Planning History Society Conference, July 2024.

‘Elementos para una teoría e historia crítica del urbanismo’ | 16th International Seminar on Urban Research, Barcelona, June 2024.

‘Common space: Environment, territory, reproduction’ | Critical Environments Symposium, TU Delft, June 2024.

‘Designing the commons? Community planning and urban reform in Progressive Era Chicago’ | School of Architecture, KTH Stockholm, May 2024 (online).

‘Theses on common space’ | 2nd Annual Conference of the Committee on Environment, Geogaphy and Urbanization, University of Chicago, May 2024.

Book presentation: Contra lo común: una historia radical del urbanismo | Universitat Popular Autogestionada / La Ciutat Invisible, Barcelona, March, 2024.

‘Against the commons: Elements for a radical planning history’ | Harvard Graduate School of Design, February 2024 (online).

‘La ciudad en común: una introducción a su historia’ | Centro de Cultura Ignacio Aldecoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, February, 2024.

Book presentation: Contra lo común: una historia radical del urbanismo | Librería Fahrenheit451, Alicante, February, 2024.

‘Urbanismo contra lo común’ | C.S.A. La Villana de Vallekas, Madrid, January, 2024.

2023

‘Re-imagining urbanization: Cities and the politics of the common’ | Keynote lecture, 8^th Art of Research Conference, Aalto University, November 2023.

Book presentation: Contra lo común: una historia radical del urbanismo | Librería Pérgamo, Madrid, November, 2023 (recording available here).

Book presentation: Contra lo común: una historia radical del urbanismo | La Central, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, October, 2023.

‘Planning against the commons: Space, design, political economy’ | Seminar ‘Urban Commons,’ Department of Architecture, KTH Stockholm, May 2023.

‘Planning the neighborhood commons: Design and the politics of community’ | Urban Design Studio Lectures, Department of Architecture, Aalto University, February 2023 (online).

2022

‘Henri Lefebvre and the right to the city’ | Universidad Experimental + Fundación de los Comunes, December 2022.

2021

‘The form of the commons: Spatial self-management and urban planning in history’ | Keynote lecture, V Congreso Internacional ISUF-H (International Seminar on Urban Form – Hispanic), Universidad de Costa Rica, December 2021 (online).

‘Peripheral centralities against Fascism: The case of Madrid, 1940s–1970s’ | Seminar ‘Pheripheral Centralities: Lost and Past,’ University of Melbourne & Urban Studies Foundation, September 2021 (online).

‘The right to the city and the urban revolution: Notes for social movements’ | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, March 2021 (online).

2019

‘Planetary urbanization, architecture, social reproduction’ | Workshop ‘Planetary Urbanization and Architectural Research,’ Manchester Urban Institute, University of Manchester, March 2019.

2018

‘The right to the city’ | Seminar ‘Collective and shared identities,’ Universidad Social de Vallecas, October 2018.

‘History between theory and activism: The commons of centrality in Weimar Berlin’ | Keynote lecture, Seminar of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Joint Doctorate History of European Urbanism in the 20^th Century, Valladolid, April 2018.

‘The future of the Monument to the Fallen in the Civil War’ | Seminar on Historic Memory and the Heritage of Fascism, Pamplona, March 2018.

2017

‘Planning the dispossession of centrality: Design, community, representation’ | City/Architecture PhD Programme, Architectural Association, London, March 2017.

2016

‘Art and the collective imagination of the commons’ | Keynote lecture, Seminar How Global Critique Becomes Translocal – Reclaiming the Commons, Hochschule Luzern – Design und Kunst, November 2016.

‘Modernism and the right to the city’ | Keynote lecture, 9^th Iberian DOCOMOMO Conference, ‘Modernism, Cultural Heritage and Participation,’ San Sebastián, November 2016.

‘Equity and the City Builders’ | UN-Habitat Conference A New Justice for the New Urban Agenda, Madrid, September 2016.

2013

‘The spatial production of community in Francoist postwar Spain: The case of Colonia del Parque Móvil’ | Seminar ‘Urban design and dictatorship in the 20th century,’ Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, November 2013.

‘Urbanism and everyday life: The production of the city and the eclipse of experience’ | Conference ‘Hiria eta bestelako politikak,’ Tabakalera – Centro de Creación de Cultura Contemporánea, San Sebastián, October 2013.

‘Territory, planning, enclosure: Towards a genealogy of planetary urbanization’ | Urban Theory Lab Research Seminar, Harvard University, May 2013.

2012

‘Prometheus in the cities: Devolving control over space to the citizens’ | Colloque International ‘Architecture et Politique,’ Société Français des Architectes & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, May 2012.