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ISSN 1973-9141 · professionaldreamers · 641 artikel di indeks
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The Piazza Exercise
This essay reflects on a pedagogical experiment—the “Piazza Exercise”—that uses Trento’s Piazza Duomo as a site for teaching sociology students to read urban space historically and ethnographically. Leaving the classroom behind, students are invited to observe, listen, and write in the square…
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The yellow benches. Urban squares as theater stages
The focus of this essay is a yellow painted bench placed at the square St Johannesplan in the city of Malmö, Sweden. It is a so called friendship bench, part of a campaign for preventing mental illness. In the essay, the friendship bench is discussed in relation to furniture history and Goffmans’…
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Through the Lens of Urban Squares. Everyday Life and the Visibility of Social Transformations
Urban squares stand at the crossroads of change. These urban laboratories turn everyday life into a lens for understanding broader social transformations. In this article, drawing on autoethnographic reflections as an eight-year resident of Gràcia (Barcelona), I examine the neighborhood’s changing…
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Where the Square Still Is. Care, Security, and Infrastructure in Exarchia, Athens
This article examines Exarchia Square in Athens as a dense urban space of encounter, visibility, and political expression, where everyday sociability and collective life have long taken shape. Focusing on the conflicts surrounding the construction of Line 4 of the Athens metro and the decision to…
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The reusability of public squares. Four contradictory demands in the wake of sustainable urban development
Reusability is a fundamental characteristic of public spaces: public spaces are meant to be appropriated, yet must constantly resist permanent appropriation (Brighenti 2010). In this sense, traditional public squares and spaces are also true examples of circularity: they are built structures that…
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Speculating Kinaxixi
Urban spaces are never what they appear to be. Vision is tethered to the present, while cities are replete with spectral presences, like those emanating from the sedimented violence of colonialism or the pristine visions of development utopias. Archival reconstruction and critical deconstruction…
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Planetary Square. Conflict, Circulation, and the Fate of the Square in the Planetary Metropolis
The square has historically functioned as both a concrete urban space and a symbolic figure through which political life, conflict, and collective appearance have been articulated. Under conditions of planetary urbanization, logistical capitalism, and digital infrastructures, however, this figure…
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Il rapporto dissmulato. Strumenti per la coesistenza nello spazio pubblico / The dissimulated relationship. New tools for coexistence in public space
From now on, to remain in the square it will be necessary not to be imprisoned by the judgmental gaze of the authorities. It is, in other words, a matter of avoiding conspicuousness by acting in similarity. Belonging to the city must become a visceral act that avoids being revealed in the visible.
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A Toast for Constituent Magic
Nearly 20 years ago, in lo Squaderno no. 01, I pondered about political agency as a question concern- ing the possibility of new beginnings. Following the lead of prominent critical and radical political philosophers, such as Hannah Arendt and Cornelius Castoriadis among others, I recognized that…
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In.fine. Un termine con un grossolano inizio
There is no origin or becoming an artist. Like Don Milani who writes sentence by sentence. In his works, one point calls another for simplicity of imagination and honesty of social thought; and quantum physics, precisely in these days at the end of October, alerts us that the Whole is cyclical…
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Is (Post-)Human Creativity Dead?
The new beginning of the digital era might be the end of human creativity. This could be one way of understanding our current digital predicament. The rapid advance of artificial intelligence, in particular in its relatively novel form of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), may be read in…
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Sull’ispirazione. Canone mai normato
Art is an inspiration of the idea—an atmosphere that allows the artist to share with others what characterizes him as a subject. Art, despite being the closest thing to the translation of the nou- less, remains immeasurably distant from it. In measuring myself in writing about it – which is an…
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Shock In My Town. L’urgenza di un nuovo sguardo / Shock In My Town. The urgency of a new outlook
The city is an organism with a slow metabolism, sedimenting and accumulating forms, functions, and meanings over time. If in recent centuries it has ceaselessly consumed and absorbed, its present condition compels it to work upon itself, to reuse and reassign meaning to what already exists, to that…
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L’inizio è una foresta
The beginning is a forest. A world drunk with stones, roots, mud, and sudden open areas of light among the dense tangle of branches. When one begins to write, nothing is neutral, nothing is white; on the contrary, beginning is one of the names of the impure. To begin is always to sink one's hands…
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Convertitevi o morirete / Convert or you will perish
Among the dedications my students gave to me for on of my consecration anniversaries, one struck me particularly:“Twenty-five years are longer than most of our entire lives.” I had never thought about it: the years of my own rebirth coincide with their birth. In this quarter of a century, time has…
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Understanding Place as Lived Emplacement. The Example of American Novelist Daniel Mason’s North Woods
In research dealing with the people-environment relationship, one“new beginning”is recent phenomenological work on place, place experience, and lived emplacement (Casey 2009, Donohoe 2017, Janz 2017, Malpas 2018, Manzo and Divine-Wright 2021, Seamon 2023b).1 The last term – lived emplacement – is…
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Cominciamenti / Commencements
Following Arendt’s unsurpassed lesson, each new beginning is closely linked to action. As Arendt makes clear, action is distinct from doing, producing, operating, or accomplishing. Manifesting itself as a break with an already existing pattern, that is, as a new beginning and as something utterly…
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Ri/cominciare a vivere. Nascere e rinascere “dopo” la tossicodipendenza / Re/starting life over again. On being born and reborn ‘after’ drug addiction
In November 2022 I attended a public meeting in the Tuscany region, organised by Anonymous Alcoholics, a mutual-aid organisation of people who have had or still have problems with alcohol addiction. Unlike other service meetings dedicated to support those in rehabilitation, the public meetings are…
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Cohabitation as collective resistance: City Plaza and the politics of migrant squatting in Athens
In 2015, over 850,000 people arrived on the Greek shores, exposing the fragility of Europe’s migration governance and making Greece central to the summer of migration. Thousands, transferred from the islands to the mainland, were placed in hastily built camps on city outskirts or forced to sleep in…
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The Urban Politics of food- housing nexus in São Paulo, Brazil
The relationship between housing justice movements and the practice and politics of agroecology and feminist political ecology shares many features. Recent scholarship has increasingly addressed agrifood and housing justice claims in the Global South (Siebert, 2023; Motta, 2021; Motta & Teixeira…