Stavros Stavrides
Stavros Stavrides, architect and activist, is Emeritus Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where he teaches postgraduate courses on the metropolitan experience of space and supervises many PhDs. He has done extensive research fieldwork in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico focused on housing-as-commons and on urban struggles. He has lectured in European and North and South American universities on spatial theory and practices of urban commoning.
His recent books: The Politics of Urban Potentiality (London 2024), Housing as Commons (co-edited with Penny Travlou, London 2023), Common Spaces of Urban Emancipation (Manchester 2019), Common Space. The City as Commons (London 2016), Towards the City of Thresholds (New York 2019).
Other Guests of the Tables
Stavros Stavrides
Architect and urban theorist
Stavros Stavrides, architect and activist, is Emeritus Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where he teaches postgraduate courses on the metropolitan experience of space and supervises many PhDs.
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Silvia Federici
Philosopher
Silvia Federici is a feminist activist and a renowned political theorist. One of the most important voices on the Commons.
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Gladys Tzul Tzul
Sociologist
Gladys Tzul Tzul is a Maya K'iche’ woman from Totonicapán. She is a writer and essayist. Holding a PhD in Sociology, she has conducted research in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Ecuador, and the United States.
Laura Pando
Interim CEO of Julie’s Bicycle
Laura Pando Martínez, is a culture and climate expert practitioner and the Interim CEO of Julie’s Bicycle.
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ruangrupa
curatorial collective
ruangrupa (which loosely translates as ‘a space for art’) is an artist’s initiative and collective started in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2000.
