Part of Unit 2 ‘Living Where the Immaterial Matters_ Towards the commons’, Architecture Programme
The Department of Architecture of the University of Nicosia (UNIC) is hosting an open lecture by Dr. Stavros Stavrides, Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and a prominent worldwide specialist on the notion of the Commons and Commoning.
The event falls under the banner of ARCH 401-501, and ties in with the unit two thematic on ‘Living Where the Immaterial Matters_ towards the Commons’. It is being hosted by Professor Yiorgos Hadjichristou and Associate Professor Maria Hadjisoteriou.
The course will take place face-to-face via live streaming, while the guest speaker will deliver the presentation through Webex. Those interested in the open lecture can join via the following:
How to join the training session
- Go to https://globaltraining.webex.com/globaltraining/k2/j.php?MTID=t0687e2b9de67fc8d5aea282f87f786d1 on the day of the session
- Enter your name and email address (or registration ID).
- Enter the session password: 3kNjMt7y3IGi4g
- Click “Join Now”.
- Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
Session number: 137 390 6796
Session password: 3kNjMt7y3IGi4g
Dr. Stavros Stavrides, architect, is Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where he teaches graduate courses on housing design (social housing design included), as well as a postgraduate course on the meaning of metropolitan experience. He has conducted extensive research fieldwork in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Mexico, focused on housing-as-commons and urban struggles for self-management. His main research topics include urban commons, urban struggles, experience of metropolitan space, housing, spatial theory, architectural design and planning.
His recent publications include Common Spaces of Urban Emancipation (Manchester 2019), Common Space. The City as Commons, (London 2016, Istanbul 2016, Athens 2019), Towards the City of Thresholds (Trento, 2010, Madrid 2016, Istanbul 2016, N. York 2019), Suspended Spaces of Alterity (Athens, 2010) and From the City-as-Screen to the City-as-Stage (Athens, 2002 National Book Award), as well as numerous articles on spatial theory and the urban commoning culture. He has lectured in European and North and South American universities on urban struggles and practices of urban commoning. Personal homepage: http://courses.arch.ntua.gr/stavrides.html.
