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SUMMARY:MAS ETH EPFL UTD - Urban & Environmental Theory Session #4 / HRC
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DESCRIPTION:Doina Petrescu\; Gabu Heindl\nResilience and the Unsolved Proj
 ect\n\n14th November 2023\n18:30 - 20:30\nVenue: Archizoom \nZoom: 6937 
 865 5230\n\n\nDoina Petrescu\nCommons-Based Urban Resilience\n\nAt a criti
 cal moment of societal crisis due to resources depletion and planetary Cli
 mate Change\, urban commons can contribute and offer solutions to the comp
 lex process of transition towards more resilient forms of governance at di
 fferent scales. In the context of suburban neighbourghoods\, enabling the 
 emergence of commons can be a resilient alternative to the current urban r
 egeneration approaches. This process needs agencies and actors\, and archi
 tects can play an important role. In order to provide an example in this s
 ense\, we take the case of R-Urban\, a project initiated by atelier d’ar
 chitecture autogérée as a commons-based network of civic resilience impl
 emented in Parisian suburbs. The network consists of resilience hubs locat
 ed in mass housing estates and deprived communities\, which are collective
 ly managed by inhabitants. In such an approach\, the role of architects an
 d designers is to act as initiators\, designers\, and co-managers of the p
 roject\, sustaining the emergence of those urban commons through diverse l
 ocal alliances. However\, in a political context in which the welfare prin
 ciples have been replaced by market principles (often sustained by the Sta
 te)\, and in which the commons project challenges directly the current neo
 liberal capitalist process of accumulation\, extraction and enclosure\, ke
 eping this role for architects is a challenge.\n\nGabu Heindl\nCommon Owne
 rship and Nonsolution: Contexts\, Conflicts\, Contradictions\n\nWhat can b
 e the role of a critical architect in the future? How can we engage in the
  complexities of socially and ecologically burning issues? A radical-democ
 ratic conception of architecture and urbanism connects with the agency of 
 democratic social and political movements. While the planner brings her ex
 pertise into alliances with\, eg\, anti-racist or feminist politics\, she 
 enters into counter-articulations not without critically examining her own
  role as bearer of knowledge and\, thus\, authority. What is at stake is a
  self-distancing of the expert – while taking responsibility and employi
 ng knowledge and planning tools\, especially when commons have to be defen
 ded/expanded against capitalist takeovers. While architecture is too often
  prone to narrowing the scope of their concerns and\, therefore\, to pract
 ices of “solutionism”\, I would rather tackle socio-political contexts
 \, conflicts and contradictions by offering for discussion the concept of 
 “nonsolution”. I will unfold these topics with regard to my architectu
 ral practice within current anticapitalist and intersectional struggles ov
 er housing and public space as well as in correspondence to the research a
 t our new department at Kassel University on issues of ownership and\, mor
 e generally\, political economy within architecture and urban planning.
LOCATION:Archizoom SG 1212 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201212 https://e
 pfl.zoom.us/j/69378655230
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