stavros stavrides

Dr. Stavros Stavrides, architect, is 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 six books, as well as numerous articles (in Greek, English and Spanish) on spatial theory: The Symbolic Relation to Space (Athens, 1990), Advertising and the Meaning of Space (Athens, 1996), The Texture of Things (with  E. Kotsou, Athens, 1996), From the City-as-Screen to the City-as-Stage (Athens, 2002 National Book Award), Suspended Spaces of Alterity (Athens, 2010), and Towards the City of Thresholds (Trento, 2010, Madrid 2016 and Istanbul 2016). His research is currently focused on forms of emancipating spatial practices and urban commoning (characteristically developed in his last book Common Space. The City as Commons, 2016) He is a member of the Inernational Sociological Association (ISA, RC21), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the Institute of Urban Research and Action (INURA), the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE) and the Board of Greek Architects. Dr. Stavrides has been the host professor for the TUD COST Action TD1201 Urban Allotments (short-term scientific mission) as well as member of the advisory board of the CONTESTED CITIES (FP7-PEOPLE-PIRSES-GA-2012-318944). He has lectured in European and Latin American Universities on urban struggles and practices of urban commoning. Personal homepage: http://courses.arch.ntua.gr/stavrides.html