Dr. Stavros Stavrides is associate professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens Greece, where he teaches a graduate course on social housing, as well as a postgraduate course on the meaning of metropolitan experience. He has published five books (as well as numerous articles) on spatial theory:

Stavros STAVRIDES

25 Parmenidou str., 116 36 Athens, Greece

tel. office: +30-2107723947

tel. home: +30-2107522248

e-mail: zoesm@central.ntua.gr

Link to the research open space" Housing and the city" http://courses.arch.ntua.gr/housing.htm

Colloque
MÉTROPOLES DES AMÉRIQUES :
INÉGALITÉS, CONFLITS ET GOUVERNANCE
Entretiens Jacques-Cartier 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Thème I : Conflits urbains, mouvements sociaux et participation

Consejo Superior de Investigationes Cientificas Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (Madrid), Universitat Konstanz

Session: #Spanishrevolution? - Politics of Space and Place of Emancipatory Struggles and Enactments of Resistance in Southern Europe

Invited presentation at the 1st International Conference on Anthropology and Urban Conflict:
Desertions, Counter-movements and Forced Mobilities in the Contemporary City
Barcelona 7/11-10/11

Session III: Housing. Discussant S. Stavrides

Contested Urban Rhythms: From the Industrial City to the Post-industrial Urban Archipelago in Urban Rhythms: The Socio-temporal organization of the Contemporary City, R. J. Smith and K. Hetherington (eds.), Sociological Review Monograph Series, London: Wiley Blackwell.

Atenas olímpica 2004: modernização como estado de exceção in Megaeventos e cidades, Fabrício Leal de Oliveira, Glauco Bienenstein and Fernanda Sánchez (eds.), Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Universidade Federal Fluminense.

On Urban Commoning: The City Shapes Institutions of Sharing, in Make_Shift City, F. Ferguson (ed.), Berlin: Jovis Verlag

What Does a Settlement’s Layout Show about the Society Which Inhabits it? On the Importance of Thinking-through-images in Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory, S. Souvatzi and A. Hadji (eds.), London: Routledge/Informa.

Open Space Appropriations and the Potentialities of a ‘City of Thresholds’ in Terrain Vague, P. Barron and M. Mariani (eds.), New York: Informa/Routledge.

This research is focused on the reappraisal of the historically specific forms through which the relation between public and private spaces was treated in the design, construction and the inhabitation of the social housing complexes in Greece. Crucial for the reserach is the theoretical investigation of the meaning and the use of the terms public and private and the search for terms to describe intermediate relations conceptualizing "in-betweeness". The history and inhabiting experience of the Greek social housing complexes will be used for the development of theoretical tools which may be usefull in architecture and urban planning theory.
2009-2011

A video produced by the team "aformi" which focuses on self governed occupied places in Athens and their characteristics as developed or created by the December uprising. Contains interviews of people participating in these initiatives as well as an interview of S. Stavrides on the meaning of public space and the right to the city (can be dowloaded in high resolution)

Also available in Greek http://www.rebelnet.gr/articles/view/On-the-Commons and Ukrainian http://commons.com.ua/archives/9759

Tracing and researching crisis-ridden urban public spaces in Athens, Greece (Research project, University of Sussex, D. Dalakoglou Lecturer in Anthropology)