Cities today are more and more at the forefront of the environmental and social crisis. They represent both one of the major cause of the aggravation of these crisis, but also a potential solution to them. Social ecology has elaborated a robust body of theory on this topic that can help us understand better how to ecologically transform the urban.

 

Saturday August 29, 9:30 – 12:30, Agora Argyri

Social Ecology and the City

• Federico Venturini (Udine): Introduction
• Dimitrios Roussopoulos (Montreal): ‘The Right to the City’ Movement and its place on the radical municipalist agenda – A strategy perspective for social ecologists

Seminar: The Democratic and Ecological City

• Emet Değirmenci (Istanbul): Sovereign cities through food sovereignty
• Sotiris Lycourghiotis (Patras): Social centers as alternative forms of organization: the example of the Social Centre Patras
• Rowan Tallis Milligan (London): Recycling the city: Squatting as a critique of green (re)construction
• Katerina Kassavou (Cambridge): Ethics in research and practice

Read the full program here