Lecture by Stavros Stavrides “Inhabiting Spaces of the Commons: Collective Housing as a Space of Sharing”

Tuesday 12/5/2026 18:00-20:00 – Foyer

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The lecture will take place in person as part of the series of events “Co-habiting Vacancies: From Vision to Claims”co-organized by the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly (Dept.Arch UTh) and the open research-action collective CoHab Athens, between 11/5/2026-22/5/2026.

Speaker bio:
Stavros Stavrides, architect and activist, is Emeritus Professor of architectural design and theory at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where he presently teaches a postgraduate course on the meaning of metropolitan experience and research methodologiesand supervises phd theses. He is member of the NTUA Lab for the Architectural Design and Communicationas well as founding member of the independent Laboratory for the Urban Commons. He has done extensive research fieldwork in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico focused on housing-as-commons and on urban struggles for self-management.His recent publications include The Politics of Urban Potentiality (London 2024), Housing as Commons (co-edited with Penny Travlou, London 2023), Common Spaces of Urban Emancipation (Manchester 2019), Common Space. The City as Commons, (London 2016, Istanbul 2016, Athens 2019, Lisbon 2021, Milano 2022, Bucharest 2024, Seoul 2022), Towards the City of Thresholds (Trento, 2010, Madrid 2016, Istanbul 2016, N. York 2019), Suspended Spaces of Alterity (Athens, 2010) and From the City-as-Screen to the City-as-Stage (Athens, 2002 National Book Award) as well as numerous articles on spatial theory and the urbancommoning culture. He has lectured in European and North and SouthAmerican Universities on urban struggles and practices of urban commoning.

Personal homepage: https://stavrosstavrides.com/