O período de candidaturas da Urban Studies Summer School, organizada em conjunto pelo Beyond Inhabitation Lab e Urban Transitions Hub estará aberto até dia 30 de abril.

O evento terá lugar de 23 a 26 de setembro de 2024 em Turim, e de 2 a 6 de junho de 2025 em Lisboa. Ruth Wilson Gilmore (CUNY), Alana Osbourne (RU) e Tatiana Thieme (UCL) serão os oradores principais em Turim, AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield) e Filip De Boeck (KU Leuven) em Lisboa.

O programa completo pode ser consultado no site do Urban Transitions Hub.

What does it mean to think around habitation and its struggles, in a world where every inch of the possible seems to have been colonised by the extractive and expulsive makings of racial, financial capitalism? How to assemble, and engage with, radical modalities of use-value concerning the staples of habitation - addressing housing (in)justice, the expansion of computation, the emergent multiplicity of entities forming ever-complex ecologies, to reimagine a sense of the future in the midst of a planetary crisis? How to re-approach a critique to dwelling praxis grounding it within the generative force of what AbdouMaliq Simone has named the surrounds, "a shape-shifing matrix of spaces, times, and practices that exist right now within the turbulent processes of contemporary urbanization"?

We are interested in establishing a conversation with engaged scholars tackling these questions in a number of transdisciplinary ways, and, in particular, we are keen to hear from those who transcend the remit of conventional ‘comparative’ urban approaches, and those who go beyond the rubric of liberal, Western literatures and approaches to understand geographies of struggles in a situated and politically relevant way. Grounded in the 'collective study' methodology of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab, and fostered by the long-standing critical tradition of urban thinking adopted by the Urban Transitions Hub, we have joined forces to provide a platform for thinking and exchange around these themes, in the form of a double-event School located in two Southern European cities (Turin and Lisbon).