urban commons

Towards an urban agenda of the commons: a case study of the political demands of the urban commons in Barcelona

Urban commons is still an ambiguous concept from a theoretical standpoint and diverse in empirical terms, despite its popularity among urban social movements and academic studies. As a result, it is difficult to assess their impact on the production …

Problematizing Urban Commons: Towards a “Provincialised” Approach

The commons discourse has permeated all facets of human action, like cities, and it has given rise to all kinds of commons , such as urban commons. Despite their popularity, urban commons remain a suggestive and slippery concept. To contribute to a …

Urban Commons and the Production of Alternatives to the Neoliberal City

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, …

The commodifications between ICTs and public space

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 …

The Spatial Apropriation of the Urban Commons

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 …

Commoning the City and the Grassroots

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 …

Urban Commons: Lessons from Barcelona at the beginning of 21st century

Ponencia de introducción al concepto de los comunes urbanos dentro del marco de la jornada de trabajo Stadt-Teilen – Neue öffentliche Räume und nachbarschaftliche Gemeingüter, liderada por la Universität Kassel

Urban Commons

Personal Research line about urban commons as alternative constructions of fairer cities and societies.

IND+I Science award to Metropolitan Innovation Policies

Although it had officially been announced several days ago, the IND+I Science1 awards ceremony took place yesterday, where I received the prize of the category “Metropolitan innovation policies” for my doctoral research on urban commons.

Urban Commons: Lessons from Barcelona at the Beginning of 21st Century. A characterization proposal from the praxis

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 …