Programa

MONDAY (JUNE 29)

10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Opening Keynote Session (Lisbon Urban Information Center; access to this session is free and open to the public)
Moderator: Tiago Castela (CES, University of Coimbra, Portugal)

10:00 - 10:20 am Welcome
José Castro Caldas (CES-Lisbon and Observatory on Crises and Alternatives, Portugal)
João Afonso (architect; Deputy Mayor for Social Rights, Lisbon Municipality, Portugal)

10:20 - 10:45 am Opening Comments
Greig Crysler (UC Berkeley, USA)

10:45 - 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Opening Keynote Lecture
Margit Mayer (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

12:30 - 2:30 pm
Lunch (included for registered participants and invited speakers)
At the venue, prepared by the Community Canteen of Ameixoeira neighborhood

2:30 - 5:30 pm
Afternoon Seminar (CES-Lisbon) | “Social and Historical Introduction to Current Conditions”
Greig Crysler (UC Berkeley) and Tiago Castela (CES)
Discussant: João Cabral (Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

TUESDAY (JUNE 30)

10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Day Tour (Lisbon area)
“Historical Foundations, Governmentality of Debt, and New Projects of Political Imagination”
Coordinator: Tiago Castela (CES)

10:00 am Departure from CES-Lisbon (tour bus)

10:20 am Arrival at Casal de Cambra (Sintra municipality)

10:30 am - 12:00 pm Walking Tour and Conversation at the Casal de Cambra Ward Administration
Walking tour through the neighborhood (from the Church Square to the Urban Park), and conversation with the President of the Ward Administration and other citizens’ representatives (with translation)

12:00 pm Departure from Casal de Cambra

12:30 pm Arrival at the former Quinta da Serra squatter settlement in Prior Velho (Loures municipality)
Brief walking tour around the site of the former squatter settlement of Quinta da Serra (gradually demolished from the construction of the EXPO 98 grounds to the early 2010s)

12:50 pm Departure from Prior Velho

1:00 pm Arrival at Nations’ Park (former EXPO 98 grounds, Lisbon municipality)

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch on your own (after lunch, meeting at the courtyard of the Pavilion of Knowledge)

2:30 pm Departure from Nations’ Park (public bus #728)

3:00 pm Arrival at Vale Fundão in Chelas (Lisbon municipality)

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Walking Tour and Conversation at the Poço do Bispo Municipal Library
Brief walking tour around the site of the aided self-help neighborhood of Vale Fundão, and conversation with citizens’ representatives [TBC] and architect Tiago Mota Saraiva of the ateliermob office (with translation)

4:30 pm Departure from Vale Fundão (public bus #755 and metro) and end of tour

5:00 pm Arrival at CES-Lisbon (optional)

WEDNESDAY (JULY 1)

9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Morning Seminar (CES-Lisbon)
“Decolonizing Knowledge of Spaces of Dispossession and Dissent”
Maria Paula Meneses (CES)
Discussant: General D (musician, Lisbon, Portugal)

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch on your own

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Afternoon Seminar (CES-Lisbon)
“Urban Violence and Urban Peacebuilding: Rethinking Concepts and Practices in the Age of Austerity”
Sílvia Roque (CES) and José Manuel Pureza (CES)
Discussant: António Brito Guterres (Lisbon University Institute, Portugal)

THURSDAY (JULY 2)

9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Morning Seminar (CES-Lisbon)
“Financialization and Housing in Political Democratization in Portugal”Ana Cordeiro Santos (CES)

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch on your own

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Afternoon Roundtable (CES-Lisbon)
“Activism and Democratization of Urban Government”
Moderator: Tiago Castela (CES)
Discussants: João Carlos Afonso (architect and Deputy Mayor for Social Rights, Lisbon Municipality, Portugal), Mariana Paisana (architect, Rés do Chão, Lisbon, Portugal), Tiago Mota Saraiva (architect, ateliermob, Lisbon, Portugal), among others TBA

FRIDAY (JULY 3)

9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Morning Seminar (CES-Lisbon) | “Spaces of Dissent and Alternative Futures”
Greig Crysler (UC Berkeley) and Tiago Castela (CES)
Discussant: Jorge Figueira (Department of Architecture and Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal)

12:30 - 2:30 pm Lunch (included for registered participants and invited speakers)
Restaurant of the Engineers’ Association
 

2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Closing Forum (Lisbon Urban Information Center)
Moderator: Greig Crysler (UC Berkeley)

2:30 - 4:30 pm Forum involving all registered participants

4:30 - 5:00 pm Coffee Break.

5:00-5:30 pm Concluding Comments