Assemblage of repression: Exploring voids and traces caused by repression by using assemblage theory

Community Art School: Assembling an art commons for Nijmegen

The city of Nijmegen transformed drastically during the last century during its reconstruction period after the war. The city we know now is characterised by the commodification of city centre. With the proliferation of shopping in the city, the community and neighbourhood became overlooked. However, the people's mentality is still very much...

Folding: From the desire of the city to the city of desire

Athens is a city that has grown immensely after its establishment as a capital, from around 7.000 inhabitants in 1834 to around 3,1 million in 2019. After 2006, due to various economic and political reasons, mainly through the implementation of additional taxation in the building sector and in property ownership, building activities have...

The Private, The Public and The Common: What Spaces Do?

Frequently compelled by their knowledge and governance legislations, architects act as agents of expertise and impose top down solutions, in the form of fixed typologies, to bottom up and often temporary problems. Together with the fact that, in a fast paced, open source and migrating society, we still rely on the public-private dichotomy,...

Breaking the Dichotomy: The borderland and the decentralization of the food supply system. The case of Medellín, Colombia

In many Latin American cities, like Medellín, the food distribution system has an apparent irrational structure. The case is that food is distributed first to the city centre and from there redistributed towards the periphery with a concentrically raising price. This becomes most clear if we look at the informally built settlements that are...