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Encounters

and conflicts in the city

Department of Architecture in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

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WORKSHOP

ENCOUNTERS AND CONFLICTS IN THE CITY

MONDAYS AT 18:00

AT THE ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT, AUTH, ROOM ‘TH.VALENTIS’

The workshop “Encounters and Conflicts in the city”, took place in the

Department of Architecture in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece),

from April to June 2013. It was structured by a group of doctoral candidates

(Vaso Makrygianni, Orestis Pagalos, Haris Tsavdaroglou, Eirini Oreopoulou) and

with the contribution of Evi Athanasiou, Lia Gioka, Dimitris Kotsakis, Sasa Lada

and Kosta Athanasiou). The objective of the workshop was the creation of a

series of open discussions, presentations and lectures for the city and space in

the era of global crisis.

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The idea for the workshop emerged due to the lack of a place for discussion and

encounter concerning our research interests. Thus we aspired to approach our

doctoral dissertations as collective works through encounter, dialogue and

circulation of knowledge, with the expectation for contexts and works – which are

often solitary works, locked in libraries and computers- to emerge and be

discussed. We considered the communication of the doctoral candidates as vital,

not only with each other but also with the undergraduate students. At the same

time, we found necessary the connectivity with researchers beyond the borders

of Greece, against the isolation and introversion that the new rules of economy

impose. We also viewed interdisciplinarity as a crucial element of the workshop

against the fragmentation of knowledge and the divisions of scientific specialties.

The workshop “encounters and conflicts in the city” continues its activity for the

second year, with open public discussions in the Department of Architecture of

A.U.Th. (Greece)

The aim of this year’s meetings is to deepen the discussion on the issues which

were studied and presented last year, as well as to broaden the approaches on

the themes which were appointed. In continuation of last year’s dialogue, the

focus of our discussion will be on the social relations and practices of subjects as

the latter emerge in the city in the time of crisis. A main objective of the workshop

is the transgression of the scientific specializations. We will emphasize on the

transcendence of the established ‘’classical’’ subject divisions between the

natural, the social and the psychic as well as science and art, in an attempt to

compose and enlighten aspects which are usually left under-researched.

More specifically the thematic outlines of the workshop are:

CITY, CRISIS, SUBJECTS

The city as a locus (topos) of change and claim through the dialectics of public-

private and the emergence of the common space. The city as the concentration

as well as transgression of the nation-state. The city as the hub of moving

populations.

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In what way do we understand crisis today? How are labor and private property

defined with the new enclosures? In what way(s) do the neoliberal urban policies

operate today and which are their limits?

What kinds of relations and means of communication do the emerging subjects in

the city of crisis forge? How are communities and networks formed, how do social

movements and uprisings develop and how is nature, the right to the city and

common space defined? In which ways are the gender, national, class, cultural

and political actions being reinforced, rattled or intertwined?

WORKSHOP MEETINGS

Within the above framework, our intention is the planning of meetings

(presentations, lectures, discussions) on a regular base during the spring

semester of 2014, from January to June, in the Department of Architecture

(Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). We recommend that

the presentations focus on the case of one city, the comparison of two cities or

city networks.

Doctoral and Post-doctoral candidates

Kostas Athanasiou, Elina Kapetanaki, Vaso Makrygianni, Foteini Mamali, Haris

Tsavdaroglou, Orestis Pagalos,

e-mail: urbanconflicts@gmail.com

Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2013

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December 9 2013

Testing the West , TJ Clark (Professor, Berkeley University)

January 20 2014

Nationalization of Space and Time

Dimitris Stamatopoulos

From Moloch to Leviathan and vice versa. Nation states and empires from

modernity to post modernity

Nassia Hourmouziadi

‘Red’ museum is the burning museum?

February 17 2014

Migration as separation and exclusion: the limits of human mobility

Coordinator: Elina Kapetanaki (PhD cand Panteion University)

Konstantinos Tsitselikis

(dep.Professor UOM Department of Balkan Slavic and Eastern studies)

The migrant issue through the distinctions between us and them, between here

and there

Giorgos Aggelopoulos

(assist. Professor UOM)

Multiculturalism: Threat or excuse?

Elira Skevi, Nikos Nikolaidis, clandestina

Migrants detention centers: the new geography of exclusion

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February 24 2014

Spatial politics in the age of crisis

Coordinator: Vasso Makrygianni (PhD cand. AUTH)

Maria Zifou (Dr. NTUA) Transformations in urban planning in crisis-ridden

Greece

Kostas Petrakos (PhD cand. NTUA) Processes of usurpation and social

resistance. The case of the movement against goldmining in Halkidiki

Ηaris Tsavdaroglou (PhD cand. AUTH) The tragedy of capitalist spatial

common in Greece in the period of crisis

March 10 2014

Rave communities in spaces crucial and ephemeral

Coordinator: Orestis Pangalos (PhD cand. AUTH)

Irena Molnar (Anthropologist, University of Belgrade)

Dancing the war away: How rave culture is formed through crisis as an identity in

Serbia.

Leandros Kyriakopoulos (post-Doc researcher UTH)

Negotiating liminality: Building the psytrance ambience

March 17 2014

Geographies of migration: identities in location

Coordinator: Vasso Makrygianni (PhD cand. AUTH)

Panos Arion Hatziprokopiou

(assist. Professor of Spatial Planning and Development AUTH)

Urban space, religious diversity and the right to the city: islamic geographies in

Athens

Eva Papatzani (MA student NTUA)

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Crisis and the socio-spatial identities of migrants. Empirical research in the

centers and peripheral neighborhoods of Athens and Thessaloniki

Efi Kipouropoulou (Dr Pedagogic)

Conflictual identities of foreign students: transitory nationalities

March 31 2014

Geographies of migration: questioning liminality in space

Coordinator: Fotini Mamali (PhD cand. AUTH)

Olga Lafazani (Dr Geography, Harokopio University)

Negotiating boundaries and limits in everyday life

Vasso Makrygianni (PhD cand. AUTH)

Moving populations and emancipatory practices in Athens in the age of crisis

Elina Kapetanaki (PhD cand. Panteion University)

In the name of crisis experiences and perceptions of home while moving back

and forth from Greece to Albania

April 7 2014

Neoliberal urban policies and city movements

Coordinator: Matina Kapsali (PhD cand. AUTH)

Philippos Katsinas (PhD cand. King’s College London)

Crisis and neoliberal hegemony: urban policies in Thessaloniki

Athina Arabatzi (PhD cand. University of Glasgow)

From austerity neoliberalism to urban solidarity: exploring possibilities and

constraints through the case of Athens

Vasso Makrygianni (PhD cand. AUTH)

Ηaris Tsavdaroglou (PhD cand. AUTH)

The Right to the city in Athens during the crisis: between inversion, assimilation

and going beyond

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April 28 2014

Street, Exhibitions, Cyberspace

Cultural Interventions and structures of Dominion

Coordinator: Lia Yoka (assist. Professor AUTH)

Orestis Pangalos (PhD cand. AUTH)

Acts of presence and overcoming: Graffiti in New York City during the crisis of the

1970s, from the ghettos to the world Maria Papanikolaou (PhD cand. ASFA)

Political discourse in grafitti in Athens

Morfi Dimitrioy (Μuseologist MA – Artist)

Global networks of visual production management: Institutions, goals, methods

Christina Grammatikopoulou (Dr University of Barcelona)

Cultural production in the age of information technology: cognitariat, precariat and

the new dynamics of labor.

May 5 2014

The State and the Crisis

Coordinator: Kostas Athanasiou (Dr AUTH)

Α. Τhe management of space and of history

Despoina Katapoti (Lecturer University of Aegean)

From public archaeology to «archaeo»-cognitariat?

Giorgos Vavouranakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Palace and state in prehistoric Crete: the importance of social reproduction

Β.Spaces of housing, of exemption and of collective practices in the crisis

Dimitra Siatitsa (PhD cand. NTUA)

Housing as common good: possible significations of the right to housing in the

crisis

Thanos Andritsos (PhD cand. Harokopio)

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Housing, the city and the subversion of capitalism. A research hypothesis on

Greek space

May 12 2014

Geographies of control and exemption

Coordinator: Vasso Makrygianni (PhD cand. AUTH)

Christos Philippides (PhD cand. NTUA)

The city as object of study for the science of counterinsurgency

Penny Koutrolikou (assist. Professor NTUA)

Political geographies of fear in the center of Athens

Hara Tsandili (Law School Student, AUTH)

Forbidden in public: Legislation, legal discourse and feminist controversy on the

prohibition of the burqa in France

June 2 2014

The art of rebellion

Coordinator: Orestis Pangalos (PhD cand. AUTH)

Pelin Tan (Professor Architecture Artuklu University)

Urban Commoning in Conflict

Myrto Tsilibounidi (postdoc researcher University of East London)

Aylwyn Walsh (Lecturer, University of Lincoln)

Virtues of Violence: A testimonial performance or an affidavit of lies, excuses and

justifications

Fotini Tsibiridou (assist. Professor UOA)

Citizens, emotions, and art: On activism in Istanbul, shortly before the Gezi Park

protests

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June 16 2014

Social movements from Chiapas to Gezi

Coordinator: Haris Tsavdaroglou (PhD cand. AUTH)

Cristy Petropoulou

(Lecturer, University of Aegean)

From urban poetics to the poetics of urban movements: Latin American and

Mediterranean examples

Athena Vitopoulou (Dr Architect-Urbanist)

Cristy Petropoulou (Lecturer, University of Aegean)

Urban and regional social movements»

Nezihe Başak Ergin (PhD cand. Middle East Technical University Ankara)

Possibilities and impasses in Istanbul urban movements

Murat Cemal Yalcintan (Professor Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul)

Resistence to the İstanbul Transformation Geography