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Stavros Stavrides
Dr Stavros Stavrides, architect and activist, is a professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where he teaches graduate courses on housing design (social housing design included), as well as a postgraduate course on the meaning of metropolitan experience. He has published numerous articles on spatial theory and urban struggles. His books include The Symbolic Relation to Space (Kalvos Publishing, 1990), Advertising and the Meaning of Space (Stachy Publishing, 1996), The Texture of Things (with E. Kotsou, Iris Publishing, 1996), From the City-as-Screen to the City-as-Stage (Ellinika Grammata Publishing, 2002 National Book Award), Suspended Spaces of Alterity (Alexandreia Publishing, 2010) and Towards the City of Thresholds (in English: Professionaldreamers, 2010, Common Notions, 2019; Spanish: Akal, 2016 and Turkish: Sel, 2016). His research is currently focused on forms of emancipating spatial practices and urban commoning, characteristically developed in his last books Common Space: The City as Commons, (in English: Zed Books, 2016, Greek: Angelus Novus, 2018; Turkish: Sel, 2018; and Portuguese: Orfeu Negro, forthcoming), and Common Spaces of Urban Emancipation (in English: Manchester University Press, 2019). He has lectured in European and Latin American Universities on urban struggles and practices of urban commoning.
Contact: School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, 42 Patision Str. Athens, 10682, Greece.