Venice, and why we should be sad.
Post by Silvia Soonets [Proyectos Arqui 5] on Caracas Just yesterday the verdict of the jury in Venice was made public, and the discussion in Caracas went immediately bitter and Continue reading
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Who’s Afraid of the Informal?: slum as an analytical category
Continuing the dialogical debate between FAVELissues writers about the conflation of informality and slums at the glocal scale. Following Lubiana’s post about urban informality as a form of protesting economic inequality Continue reading
Falling in Love with the “Barrio,” the risk of toying with informality
Post by Silvia Soonets [Proyectos Arqui 5] on Caracas
From Occupation to Squatting?
“Occupy” is both the title and the defining directive of the current global protests against income inequality and lack of accountability for the economic crisis. The word occupy, in English, Continue reading
New Socio-Spatial Relationships Produced Through Urban Occupations, ‘Informalizing’ the City
Temporary informalization of urban space in global cities can radically alter interaction between urban citizens. Can we draw parallels between informal housing settlements in the global south and the Occupy Movement? Following Continue reading
Occupy Everything! :: Urban Informality as a Form of Protest
It would be a missed opportunity not to extend this space, and discussion around urban informality in various cities around the world, to the recent sites of ‘occupation’ in the Continue reading
