Nadia Len is a politically active researcher and at times maker of films and other creative projects. Her interests include media theory, failure in political struggles, land use and property, history and philosophy. She has spent most of her life living around Europe involved in various political struggles, and still wants to change the world.
Although it operates since 1999, TODO POR THE PRAXIS was established in 2007. The group consists of a multidisciplinary team with members from various disciplines such as architecture, art, law, computer science and anthropology. TODO POR THE PRAXIS is defined as a laboratory of aesthetic projects of cultural resistance, a laboratory that develops strategies for intervention in public space. The final aim is to generate a socially effective catalog of tools and actions to ensure the right to housing and the right to the city.
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Francesca Iovino is independent researcher with a phd on architectural project and urban planning. After a post-graduation research at T.U. of Delft (Netherland) on the evolution of intervention policies and project developments regarding the residential planning of new metropolitan areas, a subsequent commitment as faculty professor – at First Architecture Faculty of Rome – with a strong experience on leading thesis workshops for experimental residential projects. Team leader at Sciatto produzie studio with specifical interests in projects of developping system for residential purposes. Several interests about new frontiers of dwelling through different paths of research: projects and writings. Different specifications the dynamics of living through different avenues of research project. Numerous publications on specific and political magazines, currently with a new line of study Sciatto Produzie develope design research and theory relating to critical housing. ecn.org/sciattoproduzie meramadera.noblogs.org
Teddy Cruz received the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture in 1991 and in 1997 received a Master in Design Studies From Harvard’s University Graduate School of Design. In 2005, he was the first recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize, by the Canadian Center of Architecture and the London School of Economics. In 2008 he was selected to represent the US in the Venice Architecture Biennal and was part of the important exhibition Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement at the Meseum of Modern Art in New York in 2010. In 2011, he was a recipient at the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture by the French National Museum of Architecture and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Designers in America by Fast Company Magazine. Teddy cruz in currently a professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego, and the co-founder of the Center for Urban Ecologies.
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Thomas Laureyssens (1976) is artist, researcher and interaction-designer. His work, inspired on cartography and human interactions in cities, was shown by Argos, Rhizome and Z33. He is a teacher and PhD researcher in the arts (MAD-faculty, FAK – KU Leuven) on games and ludic interventions for urban space, and how they can be used to create a more social environment. He co-created MAP-it, a participatory mapping toolkit.
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Massimo Ilardi is a professor in Urban Sociology in the Department of Architecture of Ascoli Piceno at Università di Camerino. He is the editor of Gomorra Magazine. He has published L’individuo in rivolta. Una riflessione sulla miseria della cittadinanza (1995), Nel territorio della strada (2002), Negli spazi vuoti della metropoli (1999), Nel territorio del consumo totale (2004), Il tramonto dei non luoghi (2007).
Although it operates since 1999, TODO POR THE PRAXIS was established in 2007. The group consists of a multidisciplinary team with members from various disciplines such as architecture, art, law, computer science and anthropology. TODO POR THE PRAXIS is defined as a laboratory of aesthetic projects of cultural resistance, a laboratory that develops strategies for intervention in public space. The final aim is to generate a socially effective catalog of tools and actions to ensure the right to housing and the right to the city.
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WARBEAR aka as Francesco Macarone Palmieri is a hectic character swinging across such fields as theorical research, music, cinema, contemporary art and cultural production. He is a social anthropologist and an international stimulator of confrontation in Cultural Studies with a focus on sex cultures, queer activisms and pornography. He published a series of books and essays in Italian, English, French, Spanish and Turkish with international editors and magazines. He works with different Research Istitutes, Universities, Editions and Newspapers.
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Pulska grupa imagine city is a collective space which belongs to all those who live in it, who have the right to find there the conditions for their political, social, economic and ecological fulfillment at the same time assuming duties of solidarity. This concept of the city is blocked by capitalist dialectic based on difference in public and private good. From these two poles State and Market emerge as the only two subjects. They want to this dialectic, not to focus on eventual “third subject”, but on a group of collective subjectivities and the common that they produce. They understand common as non material value produced through differences, communications and social experience. Only if these common values manage to escape being captured by the capitalist public-private dialectic they keep their non material value open and they have potential to become productive, to become a mean of production.
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