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Stavros Stavrides

Architect and activist Stavros Stavrides is Emeritus Professor of architectural design and theory at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and a 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 (Bloomsbury, 2024), Housing as Commons (co-edited with Penny Travlou, Bloomsbury, 2023), Common Spaces of Urban Emancipation (Manchester University Press, 2019), Common Space: The City as Commons (Zed Books, 2016), Towards the City of Thresholds (Common Notions, 2010), Suspended Spaces of Alterity (Alexandreia Publishing, 2010) and From the City-as-Screen to the City-as-Stage (llinika Grammata Publishing, 2002, National Book Award).

To Redeem Hope

Interview with Stavros Stavrides
by
- Gene Ray
- Stavros Stavrides
This wide-ranging interview with architect and activist Stavros Stavrides opens up the spatial and urban dimensions of commoning, while recognizing some of the most influential contemporary rural commons. From Athens to Gaza, and from Chiapas to Rojava…

To Redeem Hope

Interview with Stavros Stavrides