On July 12 the case of BMINCOME UIA Barcelona was presented by Laura Colini at at the “Making Space for Hope” AESOP conference 2018 in Gothenburg. The case was discussed with Ananya Roy, Oren Yiftachel and Ali Madanipour during the roundtable “The Praxis of Planning in Unequal Cities” organized by Daniela de Leo.
photo by Simone Tulumello
Florence, Italy: The iconic Venere Biomeccanica (Biomechanical Venus) sculpture is under threat of being removed as part of a larger regeneration project in the city. The 5-meter tall anthropomorphic statue is located in a former textile machine factory complex in the Rifredi neighbourhood of Florence. The sculpture was built by a group of activist artists who […]
We recently published a piece about the Museo Comunitario del Valle de Xico on our Recentering Periphery blog. You can find the interview we carried out with the community museum’s director, Genaro Amaro, here. We are saddened to hear that this amazing grassroots cultural initiative has been closed and is under threat of eviction from the Municipality […]
Last year we contributed to the cycle of conference organised by our partners of the Criticity collective in Florence. We are happy to present now the deriving publication. Futuri Urbani is a project that began over a year ago and is now presented in the form of a book series. It is a process of critical reflection […]