Description
Through a series of reflections, this presentation will look at knowledge production with urban communities in a transglobal research context merging together fieldwork in Medellin (Colombia) and Athens (Greece). The question that I pause here is how can care and collective creativity enhance the wellbeing and resilience of communities at-risk in times of crisis? The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of care and community art infrastructures as a common good that enables urban disaffected communities across the global periphery to withstand multiple adversities, actively reclaim their city and make it more hospitable, sociable and secure. Focusing on the South American concept of buen vivir (‘good living’) realised through practices of collaboration, solidarity and sharing to meet the everyday needs and achieve the wellbeing of individuals, communities and lived-in environments, I will discuss how indigenous decolonial knowledges and practices can be translated into the contemporary urban landscape and enacted by local communities.Period | 12 Feb 2024 |
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Held at | OPENspace |
Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- ethnography
- Global South
- the commons
- cultural landscapes
- Athens
- Medellin
Documents & Links
Related content
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Activities
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Power to the Commons! Assembly (Documenta 15)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
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University of Macedonia, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental studies
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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Decolonising Urban Knowledges (RC21 Conference)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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Buen Vivir, Commons, Web 3
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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The Right to Housing during Covid-19
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Sharing, Connecting, Decolonising knowledge(s) across urban centres in the global periphery.
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Learning from the Squares
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Buen Vivir. Interview with Penny Travlou on collaborative practices in emerging networks.
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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Cosmopolitics, Heteropolitics, and Epistemologies of the South:
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Cultural Commons: (How) do we put it into practice in Medellin?
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Research output
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Chapter 13: From social urbanism to strategies of collective action in Medellin
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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II Meeting of Cultural Commons in Medellin: Report by Penny Travlou, Luciana Fleischman, Alexander Correa
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Kropotkin-19: A Mutual Aid Response to COVID-19 in Athens
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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"An Opportunity to Imagine Another World”: An ethnographic report on Platohedro’s principles of Buen Vivir
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Solidarity and care economy in times of ‘Crisis’: A view from Greece and Hungary between 2015 and 2020
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Cultural Commons: (How) do we put it into practice in Medellin? A report
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Projects
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Buen Vivir in Medellin: Care as a common good during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Decolonising the City (DtC): co-designing a participatory arts-based research toolkit with migrant communities in Athens, Greece
Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation