Congress on Public Spaces #CO_OPS Congress on Public Spaces

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Culture and aesthetics have a fundamental role to play in public discourse, citizen involvement, and exercising the everyday right to the city. But how?

From the public museum, to digital art platforms, to the space of civic action, the congress will interrogate the spatiality of this role of aesthetics, hosting a conference, public discussion, and workshop on the social, institutional, political, technological, and ideological issues that undergird complex relationships between cultural heritage and urban (re)developments.

Saskia Sassen

Urban sociologist, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University

Jodi Dean

Political philosopher, Donald R. Harter ’39 Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Rick Lowe

Artist and community organiser, founder of Project Row Houses

Marina Otero Verzier

Architect, head of research & development at Het Nieuwe Instituut in the Netherlands, and Chief Curator of the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale together with the After Belonging Agency