Dr. Stavros Stavrides, architect and activist, is Professor of Architectural Design and Theory at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens Greece, where he teaches graduate courses on housing design (including social housing), as well as a postgraduate course on the meaning of metropolitan experience. He has published numerous articles on spatial theory. His books: The Symbolic Relation to Space (1990), Advertising and the Meaning of Space (1996), The Texture of Things (with E. Cotsou, 1996) From the City-Screen to the City-Stage (2002, National Book Award), Suspended Spaces of Alterity (2010), Towards the City of Thresholds (in English, 2010 and 2019, in Spanish and Turkish 2016), Common Space (in English, 2016, in Greek 2018, in Turkish 2018) and Common Spaces of Urban Emancipation (in English 2019). His research is currently focused on forms of emancipating spatial practices and spaces of commoning.

Stavros STAVRIDES

25 Parmenidou str., 116 36 Athens, Greece

tel. office: +30-2107723947

tel. home: +30-2107522248

e-mail: zoesm@central.ntua.gr and  sstavrides@arch.ntua.gr

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

 Recently moved to: http://www.arch.ntua.gr/housing#3080

Details for Social housing courses taught (including project presentations and relevant material) in:

http://socialhousingntua.blogspot.com/

The Sociological Review 61/S1, pp 34-50

dérive - Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung

Edited by Amador Fernández-Savater, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, With contributions by Luhuna Carvalho, Çiğdem, Hoda Elsadda, Wiam El-Tamami, Patricia Horrillo, Silvia Nanclares & Stavros Stavrides

Eurozine magazine

New Geographies12 Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Issue on Commons

Translation of Towards the City of Thresholds in Turkish with additional material

Mathias Heyden (Hg.) Berliner Hefte zu Geschichte und Gegenwart der Stadt #4
Berlin: neue Gesellschaft fuer bildende Kunst

Manchester University Press

New York: Common Notions

The Dispersed Urbanity of Aegean Archipelago, 10th International Exhibition of Architecture, Venice Biennale, Hellenic Ministry of Culture

Uncovered, Paraskevaidou and Senova (eds.) Cyprus

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.

Robin James Smith, Kevin Hetherington (eds.), New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Make_Shift City, Renegotiating the urban commons, F. Ferguson (ed.), Berlin: Jovis Verlag (in English and German)

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.

Terrain Vague, P. Barron and M. Mariani (eds.), New York: Informa/Routledge.

Space and the Memories of Violence. Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception, P. Colombo and E. Schindel (eds.), Palgrave, 2014

Grand Domestic Revolution Handbook, Binna Choi and Maiko Tana (eds.), CasCo projects, Utrecht

Enclaves de riesgo, Gobierno neoliberal, desigualidad y control social
Traficantes de Suenos
http://www.traficantes.net/libros/enclaves-de-riesgo

Madrid: Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitutionales

We-Traders - Tausche Krise gegen Stadt, eds. Angelika Fitz und dérive – Stadtforschung, Berlin: Goethe-Institut/ Ring eBooks

Mega-events and the city - Critical Perspectives, Rio de Janeiro: Ettern, Letra Capital Editora LTDA
edited by Carlos Vainer,Anne Marie Broudehoux,Fernanda Sánchez,Fabrício Leal de Oliveira

Jesco Fezer and Studio Experimentelles Design (eds) How do we want to work together as socially engaged designers students and neighbors in neoliberal times?
London: Sternberg Press

Gielen, P et al The Rise of the Common City. On The Culture of Commoning. Academic and Scientific Publishers, Brussels

(in Greek)

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 series of video documentaries for Athenian neighborhoods based on the idea that each city part can be described and interpreted by a word connected to space (f.e. threshold, balcony, warehouse, basement, arcades etc) that retains both its literal meaning as well as a potential allegoric connotation (http://mikropoleis.tumblr.com/map).

funded by ΕΛΙΔΕΚ Scientific Field 1: Social and economic geography

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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

in Conversation with Ashish Kothari and Stavros Stavrides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t--NKNEM11w

Invited talk

“Temporary Utopia”: How can a broader understanding of the public realm transcend the scope of architecture?
(Leuven 2016). Invited talk

Urban Mutations at the Edge. On Commoning.
Lecture Series HS2016 / Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil ONA Focushalle / D-ARCH ETH Zürich 2016). Invited talk

Autonoma: Towards the Collective City (Onassis Foundation Scholars Group, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens). Invited talk

RC21 (Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development, International Sociological Association) conference :The Transgressive City (City of Mexico, El Colegio de Mexico).

Revolutions, Records and Rebels exhibition. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Invited talk

Invited talk: Symposium The Right to the (New) City: Art, New Towns and The Commons (MK Gallery Milton Keynes UK.).

Utopias. Arquipelago Comum (curators L. Coutinho and M. Deputter, Maria Matos Teatro Municipal, Lisbon). Invited talk

The Apatride Society of the politically Others: Integrated World Capitalism and the ithageneia condition, documenta 14 public programs – The Parliament of Bodies, Athens. Invited talk

How Assemblies Matter? (curated by J. Marketou, Athens Biennale). Invited talk

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(draft paper)

Making Public Domain (Summer School)

Del civisme al dret a la Ciutat conference. UVIC (Universitat de Vic. Universitat Central de Catalunya) and Ajuntament (Municipality) de Barcelona. Invited talk

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Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro – Department of Social Sciences/Graduate program on Social Sciences. Invited talk

Towards a Different City, organised by the _Ministry of Space Collective, Belgrade, Serbia, October 2018. Invited talk

University of Padova, STEDE Erasmus Mundus Master

Chamber of Architects of Turkey,
İstanbul Metropolitan Branch . Invited talk

TUM Department of Architecture. Munich Center of Community Arts - MUCCA. Invited talk

BEYOND URBAN TRANSFORMATION, KOSMOS Workshop
Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin  

Workshop: ‘EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF SOLIDARITY’ HafenCity University, Hamburg

Columbia University Global Centers , Amman, Studio-X Amman,
Ifpo, the Institut français du Proche-Orient
Contemporary Amman and the Right to the City
Conference, keynote talk

Commoners Society 
The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam

International Symposium "Diagnose 1968/2018“ Critical Perspectives on the Legacy of Reform and Revolt in Architecture, Planning and Urbanism. Invited talk
TU Berlin

INSTITUTE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY | University of Belgrade

Making Futures Bauhaus+ is an action research project that addresses questions of architecture as a collective form and architecture as a resource. Departing from these two perspectives, it operates as an experimental research unit that advances future paths for architectural practice and education. It was initiated in 2018 as a cooperation between raumlabor and the Berlin University of the Arts on the occasion of the Bauhaus’ centenary.

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 , Ukrainian http://commons.com.ua/archives/9759 and Rumanian http://www.criticatac.ro/19301/despre-bunurile-comune-interviu-cu-massimo-de-angelis-stavros-stavrides/

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

How does a global financial crisis permeate the spaces of the everyday in a city? Our final 35' documentary film traces the multiple transformations of crisis-ridden Athenian public space and those who traverse it.

links to Italian and English translation

Entretien réalisé par Thomas Lemahieu
Vendredi, 6 Mars, 2015
L'Humanité

Contested Cities Blog

The research project Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship, investigating the politics and spatiality of citizen-led initiatives of care, emerged in the urban contexts of Southern Europe in the wake of a still unfolding common crisis.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqbiig/index.html

Spaces of Commoning, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Vol. 18

Re-visiones Núm. 7 (2017)
¿Es posible descolonizar las metodologías occidentales? El Sur como motor

Conversation with Stavros Stavrides (25/09/17)
Eliana Otta