Within a context of austerity, city governance policies have been devoted to attracting capital either from external sources or by a series of privatisation policies, submitting any kind of social concern to this mercantilist logic. In doing so, …
Can Information and Communication Technologies be tools for observing and acting on heritage and public space from a contemporary perspective? If, on the one hand, ICTs are very useful for measuring, knowing and representing heritage -from the use of …
Urban commons are one of the areas in which the spatiality of social movements on a local scale is most clearly evident. Although the way in which they make the appropriation of space is usually presented as a third alternative to both the market …
In the last decade, bottom-up initiatives of social transformation lead by urban social movements have been articulated around the notion of Urban Commons in cities across the world, and in particular, in Europe. Under the umbrella of this concept …
Personal Research line about urban commons as alternative constructions of fairer cities and societies.
The concept of the commons is as strongly suggestive as ambiguous. This is evidenced by the growing interest in recent years which encompasses areas and aspirations so diverse that despite being contradictory sometimes, share a transformative vision …