Solidarity and Education or Education of solidarity in the City of Mytilene: The âMikros Douniasâ as a common space for the right to the city, Constantinos Zafeiris, ...
Thursday, May 31 12.00 – 13.00 Welcome & Introduction
13.00 – 15.00 A1. Debating urban commons -
2009-2017: The recent lineage of Urban Commons, E. Antonopoulou Athens Beyond Us and Them, S. Kousoulas Challenges of producing an alternative urban imaginary in the city: The example of the urban commons in Istanbul, A. Fautras Correlation Between Local State and Commoners: Examples of Haydarpasa Train Station, In Kadikoy, B. Yalcin What is after convergence? Responses to movement fragmentation in the follow-up networks of the Gezi Movement, G. Pelivan Cemgil
A2. Right to the city -
6th October Bridge: on the Heterotopia of Modern Liminal Spatiality, A. Azab-Osman Urban Transformation Story in GOP: Union of Neighborhoods against the Legal Ambiguity, Ö. Oral Who cares about the sidewalk? Ü. Şendil; K. Üstündağ Recent Urban Struggles in Istanbul in the Light of Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis, A. E. Dogan
15.00 – 16.00 Lunch break 16.00 - 18.00 A3. Migrant – refugee struggles -
Migrant squatting and the scales of commoning: the Moi at Turin 2013-?, A. Stopani Mapping solidarity against racism in Barcelona: from the “migrant crisis” to everyday life struggles in the city, Á. Ramírez-March, M. Montenegro, F. Planas, C. Álvarez The Occupation of SYRIZA Offices in Lesbos, S. A. Nabi Solidarity and Education or Education of solidarity in the City of Mytilene: The “Mikros Dounias” as a common space for the right to the city, Constantinos Zafeiris, Xeni Alexiou, Christy Petropoulou Reshaping Europe as a Commons – Refugee Solidarity in Athens, L. Gauditz Video projection: A Borderless World, A. Deeq (6min)
A4. Public space in urban struggles 1 -
Subjects in Crisis. On Neoliberal ‘Modernization’, Syntagma Square, and Prefigurative Spatialities in Athens, D. Soudias Rhythmanalytical Reading on a Place of Struggle; The Case of Yüksel Street, Ankara, E. İplikci Distributed Citizenship: Emergency or Normality? A. Sakellariou Taksim Republican Square In Between; Gezi Park Occupy Movement and Democracy Watch Rallies, T. Kahraman, M. D. Kahraman exhibition: New Definitions to Public Spaces, Appropriation of Private Spaces: Beyond-Spaces in Istanbul, H. Sahin
18.30 – 20.30 A5. Touristification – gentrification -
More Tourism? Mass Tourism? Mars Tourism? C. Anastasia The struggle for the public space and the cultural hegemony: the case of Bologna, V. Salvini Learning from Naples. The Quartieri Spagnoli do it yourself governance, L. Basco Pockets of Resistance in Transforming Urban Settings: The Case of Mar Mikhael Neighborhood in Beirut City, A. Zaatari, A. Ghaddar, B. Yassine exhibition: "We don't want your money": Wall writings against gentrification in Spain, J. Tolonen
A6. Social – political ecology -
Wind Farm Conflicts at Rural-ecological Commons: The Case of Karaburun, D. Hazar, Z. Ozcam Distribution of Urban-Ecological Commons: Case of Urban Forestry of Izmir, P. Ozkan D. Hazar Political Ecology and the Degrowth movement: for the Right to the Eco-Community, S. Mouzakitis The social ecology of ruins, T. Rouhette Video projection: Reclaiming the Sea, A. Sakellariou (8min)
Friday, June 1 11.00 – 12.30 B1 Graffiti 1 -
“Ilginç Degil” – “It’s not interesting”: A Material Culture and Landscape Analysis of Political Graffiti in Istanbul between 2015-2017, J. Leander Geraets “Revolutionary” Walls. The Example Of Cairo Murals, M. Papanikolaou Whose Right and What City? Notes on the Image Wars in the Athens of Crisis through a Graffiti Photograph, K. Avramidis
B2 Stigmatization / marginalization and right to the city -
Margins of the city: space, existence and co-existence of heroin-community in Rogoredo, V. Verdolini Diğerler, the Others: living in marginal quarters in Istanbul, V. Ferraro Informality as Speech Act: State Constructions of ‘Asha’iyyat in Cairo’s Public Markets, M. Ezz
13.00 – 15.00 B3. Debating urban commons 2 -
Commoning the Knowledge with Graph Commons: Literature on Urban Commons, T. Çekiç, E. Yılmaz Athens: An Invisible City, S. Strigklogiannis Commoning (in) documenta 14 (2017) and Athens Biennale 5 to 6 (2015-2017)? Periodic exhibitions of contemporary art amidst the local/global narratives of commons, S. Tsampalla Commoning Property: Urban Movements and Claims of Common Property in Istanbul, B. Ozden Firat, E. Sidar Okdemir Transforming Ethnic Conflict into Urban Controversies for Agonistic Urban Commons: the “Hands-on Famagusta” project, Cyprus, S. Stratis, E. Akbil
B4. Reconstruction / restructuring -
Post-war urban ‘reconstruction’ in downtown Beirut: social and environmental destructions in a privatised area, H. M. Abiraad The New Capital, Mapping The Desert Land (Cairo), F. Kitsios, N. Drougka, E. Faliaga A Mediterranean Neoplasm, G. Erkılıç, C. Zeren Constructing Counter-hegemony: The case of Chamber City Planners’ Practices in Ankara, E. Sevim, Ö. Yalçınkaya, D. Kimyon, S. Savran Aslan, G. Serter, G. Güldal, E. Iplikci, N. Oya Memlük Coastal Land Reclamation Area as Megaform in the Context of Urban Political Ecology, Esra Sert
15.00 – 16.00 Lunch break 16.00 - 18.00 B5. Migrant - Refugee struggles 2 -
Urban Struggles in Refugee Camps: The Case of Lebanon, F. Micocci Mobile Commons and the right to the city, D. Parsanoglou Emerging acts of commoning through autonomous migration: Commons and newcomers in Mytilene, X. Alexiou Migrant labour, urban commons and social justice in Naples, D. Arnold
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Greek Chronicle Project/Ελληνικό Χρονικό, Z. Haitidis, (30min)
B6. Public space in urban struggles 2 -
S' agapao na tis les: Feminist geography of the public space in Exarchia, K. Voulgari Gendered Public Spaces in Istanbul, Ö. Altın “The "space of appearance" revisited in the square movement” P. Kotsifaki-Sarpaki, K. Fysaraki A Critical Inquiry on the Transformation of the Taksim Square, Ö. Arslan Artistic intervention/Performance: Spirals, H. Marini
18.30 – 20.30 B7. Roundtable: Sensing Solidarity: Sensory Engagements with Networks, Commons, Citizenship, and
Resistance, T. kerkels, D. Papachristou, H. Ploegman, K. Talianni, P. Travlou, T. Western Video projection: Skoros: Anti-consumption in Crisis, A. Chatzidakis (20min), B8. Roundtable: Solidarity Architecture Exhibition, H. Sinan Omacan; O. Kirlangic, E. Torbaoglu, H. Akarca (as represantatives of Chamber of Architects Istanbul Branch) and the Groups Another Kind of Workshop, Düzce Hope Studio, Architecture for All, Kuzguncuk Gardens Improvement and Preservation Project, Architect Assembly, Plankton Project, Historical Yedikule Gardens Preservation Initiative Tarlabasi - an Urban Struggle, H. Akarca, R. Doğan, E. Yağcı, O. Kizginkaya, E. Sarisac
Saturday, June 2 11.00 – 12.30 C1. Graffiti 2 -
"Learning from Athens, the new Berlin," Athens as a place of resistance: romanticization, graffiti and masculinities, N. Soumpassis Vallcarca: A space in between ways of making politics, P. Munoz Moran Struggles of Visibility, R. Kalıntaş
C2. Stigmatization / Marginalization and Right to the city 2 -
The Right to the City and the Common Space between Conflicts and Desire of Community in the Sicilian "bad neighborhood” of San Berillo, F. Gravagno, E. Privitera Struggle, and Back Home: Retreat from Istanbul and the Socio-Spatial Restructuring of Kadikoy, K. Kubilay Asar The battle to be fought for common in Beirut The case of Souk Abou Rakhoussa in the context of 2015 manifestations, R. Wehbe
13.00 – 15.00 C3. Debating urban commons 3 -
Reclaiming the commons in downtown Haifa, D. Behar R. Ben-Arie Space-commoning: non-identitarian (be)coming together in liminal spaces and times, M. Harrison A Minor Struggle for Urban Commons: Mapping the Everyday Topographies of Istanbul, A. Senel The ecumenical right to the common space: between stasis and movement, H. Tsavdaroglou Athens Report, a collective archive of life and protest in the city of Athens, A. Lascari, C. Petropoulou
C4. Neighbourhood Self organization -
Neighborhood Forums and Squatter Neighborhoods During the Gezi Uprising, A. Lucie Batur First comes the neighborhood: initial steps towards strengthening urban social movements in Podgorica, Montenegro, S. Dragovic, M. Cacic Perspectives Of Self-Organization In Rome, L. Brignone, C. Cacciotti Territorialities of encounter: The neighborhood of Koukaki, D. Loupetis, A. Papangelopoulos
15.00 – 16.00 Lunch break 16.00 - 18.00 C5. Everyday / Affective urban activism & struggles 1 -
Aesthetic Struggles in the Urban Social Movements, T. Tunali From Bystanders to the Protagonists: Provincializing the Gezi Uprisings, D. Özkaya Narratives of the Bodies and Spaces of Εxcarhia in Transformation, G. Aykaç Right to the Landscape: Why Are We All Walking in Northern Istanbul?, N. Tümerdem Informal Spatial Practices as a Social Morphology: Gülsuyu and Gülensu Case, O. Gürsoy, E. Yasin Dinç
C6. Urban social movements 1 -
De-Solidarity: A Critical Approach to Solidarity and Resistance, C. Varela, M. do Mar, L. Haghighat The Urban Social Movements of Athens and Istanbul, the space and the political, C. Kavoura Urban Social Movements In Istanbul, B. İngin, E. S. Ökdemir, M. C. Yalçıntan Repelling Commoners, Destructing Urban Space: Gezi Park Protests and Kobanê Riots, E. Tuncer Artistic intervention: What is Struggle? T. Sahin
18.30 – 20.30 C7. Roundtable: Care Politics
-Self-organised social reproduction in crisis-ridden Athens: the emergence of a new institutionality of welfare and citizenship, Isabel Gutierrez Sanchez -Rethinking “safe-r spaces”: gender, sexuality and the defense of common space, Anastasia Papathoma C8. Roundtable: Ethics Of The Activist Researcher, M. C. Yalçıntan
Sunday, June 3 11.00 – 12.30
Parallel Workshop: Hunting guerrillas based on the morphology
13.00 – 15.00 D1. Memory struggles -
Heterotopia Between Cultural Heritage and Welcoming the Migration: The Case of Basmane, Izmir, H. Işıklı, T. Özge Göksen Archiving Urban Change: Collective Production of Almanak as an Urban Struggle, E. Yılmaz, T. Çekiç, T. Kahraman 'Contentious Collective Actions and Exceptional Urban Spatialities: Memories from the December 2008 Youth Uprising', B. Ksiropita Intimate stories, Everyday Memories and Creative Counterpublics: Ethnographing activists, writers and artists in Beyoǧlu, F. Tsibiridou Exhibition: Postcards from Athens / Greetings from the invisible city, S. Strigklogiannis, F. Cocchiara
D2. Housing / Squats -
From dispossessed urban dwellers to citadins of the Mestizo City: The autonomous geographies and urban commons of Rome’s housing squatters, M. Grazioli Changing Society, Changing Households: The Paradox of the Maltese Dream, R. M. Scicluna, K. Xerri The Shifting Significance of Land and Property in Büyükbakkal on İstanbul’s Outskirts: Forms of Expropriation and Resistance, S. Doğan Cohousing in Athens: the prospect of working and living collectively, Kyriaki Mountanea, Christina Raftopoulou Polykatoikia: Re-framing the public, D. Venizelos, C. Serifi
15.00 – 16.00 Lunch break 16.00 - 18.00 D3. Everyday / Affective urban activism & struggles 2 -
Watching the watchers: Community based surveillance under the gaze mass surveillance in everyday life – the case of Gonenim Park, Jerusalem, R. Eidelman, D. Behar Presentation of the group "Eclipse/AlKusuf", a support group for LGBTI+ and Queer Refugees in Thessaloniki, Greece, "Eclipse/Alkusuf" Architectural model in production of queer space of Belgrade, B. Burmaz Queer Mobilities for and across Football Spaces, D. Nihan Aktan Breathing under Blockade: Notes on Intimacy and Resistance in Diyarbakır, U. Yıldırım
D4. Urban social movements 2 -
Urban food struggles in Athens: food scarcities in times of uprisings (2008-2015), I. M. Bernardos The Gezi Lessons: Learning from Experiences of an Urban Uprising, I. Romain Ors Impacts of Urban Social movements on Mediterranean cities: Case study Athens and Barcelona, A. Safwat Shawky Keeping the Flame Alive: Strategies and Networks of a Persistent 15M Assembly, X. Valeth Video projection: Sur: Homeland (38min)
18.30 – 20.30 Assembly
