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if you if you say so. So I wanted to say hello to all of us here and online, and also to say, sorry from Maria Diani site, because he is stuck in Italy, and he couldn't come this time

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he would come if there was Rugby. But at least there is no rug, because it may at this point.

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anyway. we had a great pleasure of reading all the abstract, and it was actually a pretty difficult choice to make So we are really happy that this topic is attracting attention of some really good scholars from whom we will here today, and we will go according to the

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to the plan. So one by one, starting with Pablo Kobitzki. From Theya Galonian University in Krakow, in Poland, who will be talking about urban movements in Poland, and he is presenting remotely. So pavil by giving you the floor.

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Pawel Kubicki: Good morning, good evening. It's just depend on on the place. thank you. On our phone invitation me to them to this session. I will be talking about

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Pawel Kubicki: Polish session in Poland.

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Pawel Kubicki: did you see my presentation.

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Yes, we do. And pavo. Just one thing is that, please don't take more than 15 min. Okay, okay, yeah. I have a bit time for discussion at the end.

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Pawel Kubicki: So now I'm My presentation, based on the research project advances from over in Poland, supported by the nation, our science and Polish national centers. And during this research project project, I did. idi. So we have a leaders of advanced social movement and 60 paul sixtys Polish cities.

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Pawel Kubicki:  that and that interview, including question, late related to that along issues the festival. The first

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The first question is, what's

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Pawel Kubicki: question about the at? The urgent particle about social movement, and also the original definition of the social move. And Poland Next was a question about the structure and the goals. So for this organization then the next question, you know, I was right in today. Come on, frame and self identification. Next I was writing to the

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abundance local urban policies then local discounts. And finally, in the future of the social movement in a direct, and then

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Pawel Kubicki: each in particular city, or and also on the level of a nationwide level.

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Pawel Kubicki: you know we have a still, a problem with definition of about social movement. So let me briefly discuss the my operationalization, my work. Definition of this of about social movement. So my research base on the 2 main assumptions, you know, the first was

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Pawel Kubicki: a simple definition of the social movement for me.  these collective actions that take a character of social movement oriented to achievement of long term goals. And we have a sense of a clear, distinct. They own identity

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Pawel Kubicki: They also for me to like that they interest that they are interest in the urban system as a whole rather than one aspect of the the

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Pawel Kubicki: about policies.

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Pawel Kubicki: So this the systematic approach to the city allowed them to became a an agent of culture change, so creating a new discourse, and also political change, creating or recreating the urban policies.

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Pawel Kubicki: And the truth is that their primary frame of reference is a that city, and about it.

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Pawel Kubicki: And also, if you discussed about the social movement, we should take to consider consideration also a very specific contact. So the second assumption of my project was that the structure, goals, and strategy of polish about social movement where Mmm. From and by very specific of Polish context at the beginning of a 20 first century

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Pawel Kubicki: driving by accession to you, and especially coming to the power and your generation in Poland, we called them a new bourgeoisie This new generation coming to the power at the beginning of twenty-first century, and I will be discuss this for a moment.

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Pawel Kubicki: if you discuss about the history of polynomial social movement. we can identify 2 ways of 2 stages of the activator and the first I. It was between the 2,007 to 2,014, and could be discre and could be described as a as a process of inviting combined this time statute referring to the very specific of a Polish one question

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Pawel Kubicki: so this

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Pawel Kubicki: this process of we can describe this as a in vehicle by dating urbanity rather than

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Pawel Kubicki: the time of. And the global idea of the right to to right the city, that we know the idea right to the city as a common frame of a global

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Pawel Kubicki: Hmm, that

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Pawel Kubicki: the first stage. Poly social movement was predominant by well educated at one middle class. This new and we focused mostly on the on touch. It issues such as identity and heritage of the Aesthetic of the city and special planning. There's a 3 an issue as a very important of this on this first step

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Pawel Kubicki: this issue influenced the very, the specific structure of a Polish urban social movement, and they illustrate they were

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Pawel Kubicki: dominated by middle class professionals, especially architects, urbanist sociologists from the big major academic cities, and also, very, you know, specific of

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Pawel Kubicki: generation dimension. This, this, this.

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Pawel Kubicki: a massive movement

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Pawel Kubicki: dominated by people of the similar edge between

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Pawel Kubicki:  in my opinion, and the most important trigger for social mobilization of a transition movement was so-called special cows.

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Pawel Kubicki: and this

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Pawel Kubicki: special cars has became a catalyzer of mass mobilization, at least for 3 reasons.

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Pawel Kubicki: And the first was that after accession, thanks to you, fans of also a private capital Polish city have became a so called a huge count construction side. this, of course, the consequences of of the day if you're actually backwandas for centuries, in fact, decades.

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Pawel Kubicki: But what is important that this construction boom, coincident with a lack of about policies, and especially with the the regulation of special planning and the absolutely and dominance of a. Now, why, there are no liberal ideal logic in that time Poland, and also on this part of Europe.

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Pawel Kubicki:  the first. Yes, yes, of this. A construction bomb. Boom What? Also? in Poland. They were the not a public civil control of a special special planning and policy. There is classicness of a historic concept consequence of

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Pawel Kubicki: we of social society, and especially the very specific situation after a transformation called by Polish sociologists, build stomach as a trauma of the great change.

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Pawel Kubicki: so that cost of such a development of Polish cities after access to EU was devastation of green areas, a neighborhood identities. And this, was the main trigger of of mass grassroots mobilization.

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Pawel Kubicki: I'm starting to building today. identity. And the the structural structuralization and identity took place on the 2 levels.

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Pawel Kubicki: one, the the formization of the local about activities. mostly by establishing official structure. by setting up a legal association, we can observe this process since about 2,007, and, what is much more important

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Pawel Kubicki: the level, the national level, the building, the nationwide networking by establishing cooperation between evasion movement from thousands of cities.

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Pawel Kubicki: and the 2,011 urban social movement established, so called, the the Urban movement countries

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Pawel Kubicki: has become the mystop for a mal activism for many reasons. it could be surprising for you. But

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Pawel Kubicki: this is in 2,011. This is the first time that the term urban official movement was introduced into the Polish public disc of it's a very important for building a small identity of a social movement that they have a common name and also very important. That's this activity. And it could be recognized by media. So it's also very important situation for

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building a creating a common identity.

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Pawel Kubicki: Another important issue is that ever social movement, thanks to establishing this. like work out, so called the urban thesis which became a common frame joined by movement in Poland.

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Pawel Kubicki: And another important factor is that integration within a

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Pawel Kubicki: movement countries allow for the actuation of communication at and networking structure

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Pawel Kubicki: today. this organization gathering over 50 movement around the country

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Pawel Kubicki: very important political player in the polish it is, and it became at least on.

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Pawel Kubicki: this situation the first was the local election, and 2,014 when the social movement stood in local election under the first time under the joint level of urban movement. And we, of course, different results depending on the particular city. But in some of the city, they got really, really good results.

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Pawel Kubicki: They have. They had also In some cities they had the position of a layer in a quite big city.

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Another important issue. And this, yeah, I was the to the main important issue this year came from to

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Pawel Kubicki: and from a 2 main Polish City francophone, also in track of the urban movement called track of against get track of against games let to a local referendum on the winter Olympics. And this Olympics was rejected by majority, nearly 70% of Tracobian

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Pawel Kubicki: voting against this this all and it's

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Pawel Kubicki: and and also around the civil movement cities. Ours published, so called map of revitalization, which shows connection between politicians, business and real estate companies. we're

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Pawel Kubicki: who involve and there is specific process of a real. And also there's a consequences of a commence period. And this map has a broad publicity and had a significant impact on politics and the capital of Poland

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Pawel Kubicki: since this this yet 2,014 Polish the position movement starting. The

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I perceive, as a very important player in Polish cities.

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Pawel Kubicki: My opinion, if you discuss the phenomenon of polish about such a movement, we should put that to to the attention also on the

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Pawel Kubicki: the issue of public discourse Polish Urban movement have to have into the power, not through that politics institution. Of course they have as some seats in the City Hall, but they can to the power, thanks to creation. And you discuss new narrative, the new narrative about the better city, and

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Pawel Kubicki: was a consequence of the specific nature specific structure of polish the social movement. determined by well educated middle class. so they have a high resource of for contract habitals, and, thanks to this have had a super mes supremacy on the discounts level.

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Pawel Kubicki: Thanks to this, they have a become they have, became significant and Polish cities, heading to the ability to create and impose their owneration about the city and urbanity, and also the

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Pawel Kubicki: I have taken to call responsibility for development of urban policies both on political stage as a city councillors and also on the national level as a

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Pawel Kubicki: to the conclusion. if you did. If you try to.

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Pawel Kubicki: we can discuss that future of a future development of Polish investigation movement. You should focus on the 3 main issue which, in my opinion, will determine the future.

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Pawel Kubicki: The first is the person's Probably the most important issue is a so called stealing narrations. It means that the local authorities have took over

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Pawel Kubicki: narration of a busterial movement in order to legitize the power.

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Pawel Kubicki: so movement now, losing the most the most important advantage the language of of the better city. Today the some language is spoken by the out through this. So it's a really problem to differ

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the problem with recruitment of new members. this is a very important aspect of

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Pawel Kubicki: from open pollen face with a serious problem, with a recruitment of new members. firstly, because the this is a consequence of the generation. Identity them so especially younger generation find some symbolic and all social movement that

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generation dimension and creates some kind of symbolic boundaries. So new members have a really problem to

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Pawel Kubicki: especially from younger generation to John to to about the central movement.

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Pawel Kubicki: And so another very important problem is that we can observe and pull that active in the use of a new super movement, especially if focusing on the women's right. Lgbtq plus right psychological movement and product, the democratic moment. So people who want to

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Pawel Kubicki: act and public sphere can find men different new very active social movement than

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Pawel Kubicki: and that's it. So problem is writing to the very contemporary political context in Poland.

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Pawel Kubicki: This? there is. There's a consequence.

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Pawel Kubicki: of far rights. The right wing government attack. attacks liberal liberal mayors, and in fact, the streak self-government and the democracy in Poland. And this is a serious problem.

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Pawel Kubicki: so that criticism of May of our local politicians, and they Po, good decision.

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support for the right wings government, and to have a serious problem with and make serious problem for about social movement, because about social movement Acts act to red towards the local authorities.

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Pawel Kubicki: Help that. I see that my, my time is finishing. So

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Pawel Kubicki: thank you for your attention. I will be waiting for you

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comments. And to the question, and if you are more interesting about

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Pawel Kubicki: topics of Polish ribosome movement. There's one of my articles dedicated to this this issue. Well, once again, thank you for your attention.

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Thank you so much, Pavo. I very much recommend reading one of many Paavo's publication on what has been a very specific and very original nationwide network of urban movements

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and which is developing still into a new phase which we can discuss during the question. So I would like to ask, presenters to present one after the other, and then to have an option for a question asking.

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the second presenter would be.

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it's not here, I think.

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so sadly. And Matabesi did not join us. I think

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you're not here, Matte, Bessie, right? I I wrote him in an email. But he didn't reply. So I think this is the moment when I give Florida to Jagger Petrovsky, who will take us into a world of contention with Polish urban movements, just to give you another perspective of what has been discussed in the first presentation.

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15 expert. Okay. so thank you very much for for having me here. I I really appreciate it. And I'm really happy that you know, we are in this order as we are, because,

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well, there's a lot of things that are very complementary.

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And why this is not moving.

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Okay? So what I would like to talk about is more, let's say, radical strain of urban movements. And when I was trying preparing this this presentation and thinking how to frame it. now a couple of concepts came to my mind just to make it more coherent with the rest of papers. So one of the key concepts is neoliberalism

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 and neoliberalism in Poland. I was ready. Paavo! Kobitzki said. hardly. I mean affected. To a large extent.

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what the urban setting so I won't repeat it. But that was interesting. Not not yet. So as you might have heard, a neoliberalism was introduced in Poland to actually in the late 19 eighties but of course it it came into power, so to say, in in the 1990 s. and when it comes to Neil, neoliberalism in

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urban setting, it is to a large extent about reconfiguring public spaces to make, to, to commodify them to to. In most cases, as we already said, it's it generated a lot of conflicts about green areas

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about public spaces, etc., etc. So when looking at it, I was. I was searching for movements that oppose neoliberalism in general. and more you. Even more importantly, I was looking for movements that composed neoliberalism also in urban setting. That's why, I focused on squatting movement.

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And this presentation, this research is based on long-term observation of the Polish Scoting movement. I've I've written a number of articles on that topic.

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and I think it's It's already quite enough. I mean this. it. It became quite exhausting, and to some extent even repetitive. So but

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it's a small community in in in the end. but Discourse wise? It's quite a quite interesting, quite important, because, that's the second key concept squatting movement became a kind of a laboratory of contention. That's where a lot of radical ideas are are generated

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so. And and in my presentation, my study. I'm focusing on 2 cities So Warsaw and Ps, 9, we're so it's very specific as already. Paulo said. it's because of the weird history of privatization of public housing. it was a a result of a 1950 S. Law that nationalized all the land in war. So in in war, so

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posting is slightly different, but it has a vibrant squatting community. So I I was looking. I also did a number of interviews, but I started looking at their public images and of their public statements in order to See, how do they present themselves to to the public?

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so just briefly, there are a lot of approaches. What squatting is, I mean, squatting is also when somebody occupies a vacant

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building or an apartment just to satisfy his or her housing needs. but Hans proved to created a typology. he said, like a and he he he can differentiate it between alternative housing, strategy, interpreting those quoting conservational etc. What I'm looking is one's very specific type of sporting which is political squatting

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the type of sporting that actually announces itself to the public, because, for instance, when somebody occupies an empty empty apartment. Usually they would like to keep it to be under the radar, because they can be easily thrown out from that from that place, whereas political squading often actually relies on this conflict, they want to be evicted, because then it it generates publicity, and it generates attention, draws the attention

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of of public opinion of media to the issues raised by this quoting movement.

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so just to give you a brief overview on scoting in Poland. It started in the very early 19 nineties. there is a problem to say which one was the first. There's some accounts that the first squad was actually in 1990 in the dies. But when I tried to find out where this quote was, Who who was, who are this quarters?

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Actually, nobody knows. But in 1,991 there were already a squad starting to emerge

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and they were very much mimicking this quoting culture from Western European and North American context, and that was that was a very It was kind of a blueprint for for active with for squatting activism. And actually from Already from the early 1990, S. squatting became a central hub for radical social activism in Poland.

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this follicle squads I was looking out. Here you have 2 is. And Sedana. Now, actually, last year Squadr is from Sohhot. Nas quoted this squad of Sedna it. It's a it's a bit complicated conflict. I I don't want to get into that. It's like a metas quoting to some extent.

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But these were actually, these are still the the most visible places on this quoting map in Poland, and they are. Most of this course I'm talking about are radical leveling or anarchist leaning, or very closely connected to anarchist. The movements. they're a hub of anti fascism activities. They're on almost at every spot. There's an anti fascist, gym.

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etc., etc., but they also in the recent well, around 2,006, which is interestingly a very similar

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time as a probably mentioned, but also squatters shifted their attention to other topics. They stopped focusing on themselves on squatting and being squatters, but they start to reach out to migrant communities to they start started to engage in worker active workers, activists or labor activism

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and also in tenants activism. And this is the thing I want to focus on here. just here you have 2 pictures of 2 squads from pause 9. The second second case study one of them the in the upper right corner is doesn't exist anymore. It it it was actually in the very main square of Pause 9.

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A very city center. It was an abandoned warehouse shopping center, so to say. Then it was evicted by the the building remains empty, and it actually still has a sign that it's a squat it's been, I think, 5 years since it was emptied, and it's still mark. A squat. So it marks symbolically marks the presence of squatting in in the urban area in the urban space.

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The second one is a but it's one of the oldest, the the oldest. What in Poland is one of the oldest actually in the world is now, I think, 20 something 5 or 6 years old. And it's very well known for being also a hub for alternative culture.

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but what I was looking at is, as I mentioned, trying to grasp, like something to to to on was what they are against. And

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it became quite clear quickly that it's not about self help activism. Or it's also it's actually a very, very deep critique of neo neoliberalism, and also by engaging in cooperation with tenants movements and and engaging in urban conflict. It was a very deep critic of neoliberism in urban setting.

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so that was something that was really interesting, because it Co. Also time wise. It coincided with the emergence of Bourbon social movements that Pava was talking about. But approaching the topic approaching the the problem from a different and more way. More radical perspective

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one of the key points One of the most visible elements were were anti gentrification campaigns where? this quarters in this quoting activist not only criticized the urban policies policies of urban renewal of of aesthetization of the space, but also started criticizing urban social movements claiming that they are not tackling the root of the problem which is neoliberal neoliberalism itself.

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connected in their perspective closely to anti-capitalism, etc. But it's just like becoming, as bao said, the new bourgeois bourgeoisie is actually a even a documentary movie shot by squatters about the new urban bourgeoisie which highly criticizes the urban social movement in Poland

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A. And one of the things things. As I said, there was a gentrification campaigns here. You can. You can see the gentrification score card. You can actually take it with you, and like the, and see how it looks in in Melbourne. Even so, when you have a nice new barbershop or some artistic hub you just collect points but this was According to this quarters.

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all these processes were done at the cost of permanent residence of those areas.

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And when the the Congress or of urban movements was established, there was a I wouldn't say big, but there was an exchange of of ideas, and and actually a conflict or between urban social movements. And this quoting about

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approaching the root of the problem which is neoliberalism. Then squatters? said, well, start pointing out that the urban Socialist do not refer to to workers rise to workers worker communities actually that remained in some parts of cities, and that were also pushed out from there

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localities, because, of course, of gentrification when there's an urban renewal project. Of course the prices go up, the rains go up, and workers, families cannot afford any more.

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and the notion of radicalism. I I will go quickly to it. is a is something that you can see both on the side of repertoire of action, but also at the discourse, and that started when this quoting movement started collaborating with tenants movements. It was around 2,006, 2,007 especially in Warsaw and and pose. 9

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when, for instance, not only they brought up the conflicts around new Liberals and urban renewal projects, etc., to to the public I to the public opinion. but also, for instance, quarter started to blocking evictions. and that was something that actually is something that it's a is continued and you know, blocking an eviction is actually a rather radical repertoire of action.

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although over the years with this cooperation we we could observe 2 things. First of all, it was adding other repertoire of action, mostly legal litigation and legal counseling but also, in my opinion, this cooperation between scorers and tenants movements has radicalized the tenants movement

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that became more more radical basically in their claims they started saying that it's not only about their families, their houses that being privatized and being pushed out, but also radicalize the the discord, and they started to say that it's not about their families, but it's about the city in general.

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On the other hand. This cooperation actually gave more visibility to squatting movement. Its quarters became present in in Media. In this public discussions, etc. That was not the case before, around 2,007, and similarly to to urban movements. Actually, I think that this especially this collaboration, allows squatters to enter a public discourse.

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and In a couple of years ago there was a special Commission governmental commission. To deal with the privatization, the re-privatization of Housing stock and Warsaw, and many of the concepts. Many of the claims were actually very similar to those brought up by by this quoting movement.

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conceptualizing it as a part of their struggle. In this case the anti-capitalist struggle, because, as I mentioned, one of the operationalizations of coding is an alternative housing, strategy or lifestyle squatting, which is very, very anti-capitalist, which makes the claims urban claims or housing claims of

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quarters or squadres and tenants collaborating together also a very anti-capitalist discourse.

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And that is it I I I think I made it in time if you want to. contact me. Here is my email, and I will be happy to share my previous my previous publications on that topic. So thank you very much.

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Thank you so much. Dragos.

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So, as you can see, we not only have a vibrant urban social movement, but we even have some a position within or outside. There's a lot of things going on, which, I guess, explains why I'm standing here organizing this session.

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I'll give him in the floor. Thank you very much for attending this presentation today. So from the anti game movement, we will go to pro game movement, so to say, and I will present this research that I'm doing with Hon. Or man Rodriguezamat. He's based at the Sheffield University.

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and I'm now based at the Sanford University of Applied Sciences. It is like 60 kilometers from Vienna. and I have been preparing for 10 min, so hopefully I will do it in time.

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Okay? So in

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78, thanks to Tohamiro Nishicado, the world has experienced what we have called the space invaders obsession. And here I'm actually going from psychiatry literature. That's nothing that I have invented.

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so space invaders. If you don't know, it's a very classic arcade video game that it still remains one of the most iconic and influential games in the whole history of video gaming.

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The game generated a staggering 4 billion dollars in just first 4 years after its release, in 1,978.

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The Kate has a very simple game plane. The aliens are invading from above from the top of the screen, and the main objective is to shoot down the invaders

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and not allow them to reach the bottom of the screen.

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So the first invader that managed to escape. The screen appeared in Paris in 90 96,

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and it was in form of ceramic mosaic artwork.

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The Viral sweetheart objects are to be found today in basically all over the world. And here you can see the little map

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there is also mobile app that is called flesh invaders, and it was developed in 2,014, and it allows some sort of scavenger hunt

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for the artworks, and it has created another obsession in Paris.

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for each invader caught on the streets. The user can get from 10 to 100 points, depending on the size on how hard it was to get.

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size-specific. So here you can see the invader, Dr. House, that is, on the wall of the hospital in Paris.

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There are also, for example, bank robbers on the wall of the bank, and so on.

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So Why should we have any interest to anybody except now? Psychiatry, for example?

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I think I don't need to explain this in this audience, but on one hand the video games moved away from the screens in the living room. From them every small screens of game boy of mobile phone

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and invaded the cities in a form of collective urban actions. On the other hand, all urban spaces now are hybridized, meaning. They are all mobile and enhanced, and they provide the new opportunities for urban exploration that have never been there before.

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And it's because the transformation of the urban space matters and also the politics behind this transformation really matters, and also the structural inequalities. That's what matters

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and also the right to participate and to claim the place.

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So we all know. Document go, and what obsession it had created. And it's time. So these examples of activities that have utilized urban spaces as the playground.

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This is increasingly viewed by the scholars as a remedy to counteract the impersonal nature of the urban space

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Here we can talk about lower social economic classes. We can talk about minorities, refugees, immigrants, so all whose rights to the city is often and discriminating.

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and give us a new way to read and also to rewrite the city.

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it could be roads, markets, squares, walls, whatever you name it, but also virtual or imagined communities. And this is enabled by technology clearly. So here we talk about social media.

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about various hashtags. Paris, mobile platforms. but also about non-material conditions. And here it's getting a little bit more

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complicated. But here we'll talk about security. We talk about availability of the technology. But we also can talk about freedom of expression.

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and we have developed, it is based on the research and geography on space. In place.

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it also helps to grasp the special struggle while identifying the multiple factors that intervene in all this negotiation.

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So here this is for modes I will not go. and many details.

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but a representation. It's about imagined spaces. Often it's about maps in geography, and it means the sense of place. And in the first place, here we would analyze the content of communication. So how CD. Is, how the place is represented.

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And this is, is this analytical model could be applied to both geographical spaces, to the cities, to the material spaces, but also to the virtual spaces exclusively. So. We have analyzed, for example, the online platforms for political participation. The questions that we ask in each mode could be relatively different.

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the structures are channels of information flows, and here the important part is creating how the inequalities are created right? So the streets and all urban structures define the conditions. Centrality and marginalization, the structural barriers, tools of inclusion and exclusion. So, for example, when we analyzed the festivals, the brass lit that we have to enter the festival space.

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go into connections. They define conditions for physical and virtual special interactions. And here we move on the axis from local to global.

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from squares to the world. As we said. So here, for example, media and news agencies play a very important role, and they give another dimension to the diffusion of the event. If analyze the festivals

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because this is about the symbolic value, it's about places becoming media and itself.

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that we have done. Han. Yeah. But it was a very big project on a festival about contemporary dance, and we applied digital and allocative methods to track map and explore the communicative activity in the city.

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And this all was based on the textures of place and the symbolic value of the location in which the city conversation had happened.

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We looked at the historical relevance of the places that were inviting visitors to build new memories, to share them and to grow a form of shared symbolic value.

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that in this piece of art clearly increase the communicative density of the location where placed, but also they can death centralize, they gentrify and relocate all this communicative capital.

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they must be sought. All these objects. They must be hunt in the city and upload it online to the app.

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but we still not sure. So here I will end. Thank you very much for your attention.

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Thank you so much, Julia. I I must say that I'm really jealous for this topic. I think it's one of the coolest type of research projects you can have. I do it on my own without writing papers about it. Maybe I should take your lead and and try to do something as as fun.

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But I have some questions as well, so I hope we'll have a chance to to talk about it. So now, Maria, are you there?

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: Yes, yes, I am here.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: Okay. I think it would be best if you share the screen with us. Yes, of course I will. I hope I can. I I think you have to give me a conversation or something, or maybe someone is sharing.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: So one morning for the colleagues who are there in Mayor, and I am in Barcelona, No, I am here, I now it's 3 past 30 in the morning. So this presentation, which is part of a more extensive research, discusses the role of citizen driving initiatives as collective actions in fostering changes in your own governance relations by Stan. In the case of Barcelona

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: the analysis addresses, firstly, the configuration of citizen driving initiatives under the social, economic, and political effects of the grade recession of the of 2,007 in the context of Southern European cities, and, secondly, excellence. The contribution of this initiative in introducing changes aimed at a democratization and the commodification of your awareness, relations, and dynamics.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: let me only briefly point out the most relevant interplay factors linked to the expansion of this organization. Organized citizen initiatives during the last decade in salary European cities. Regarding this, it is worse, stressing that the greater session of 2,007 has involved a reorganization of human actors, relations at the level of local police.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: At the same time the intensification of the crisis of the entrepreneurial governance model does help prevail, since the United and the growing relevance of citizens involvement in local welfare roll out alongside, an increase in mob mobilization and collective action.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: claiming for social justice and democratic in the in decision making processes on your one of first have favor the rise of citizen driver initiatives

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: in the provision of welfare services and your management that show that shown more or less coordination with local government action, according institutional and social historical factors.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: In the case of Greek cities, for instance, autonomous initiatives were predominant. Well, in the case of Italian ports we saw a Spanish cities, social activism and self-organizing initiatives became citizen, and political platforms seeking co-produce policies and go warn the series. In Naples. The case of the Asila, philanthropy, Leopola, or Villa Melissa are well known as community basic initiatives

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: with capacity of introducing institutional changes, such as the declaration of a civic use and collective management implemented since 2,015. As the creative level instruments for regulating forms of cooperation between grassroots, initiatives, and the local administration. In this context we have observed

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: the rise of bottom up practices in the intersection of your regeneration and social cultural field aimed at renewing. And you see buildings, or you one westlands for collective use. We're organized citizenship has created community management spaces for sociability and grassroots participation such as social cultural centers. And your long gardens

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: with regard citizen driving initiatives. This paper? 6. To answer the following questions.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: The first one is, how are these initiatives configurated? Considering historical trajectories and contextual factors of a merchants.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: the second one. How and to what extent do they foster democratic deepening processes? And they call notification dynamics in governing the city. and the last one. How and to what extent do they achieve institutional institutionalization of changing

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: and innovations they are producing. The analysis is guided by a perspective that combines critical human governance studies, critical contributions about social innovation and propos to articulate this conceptual input through the institutional approach on socioeconomic rationalities of Carpolani in order to identify the principles and re the principles and relations that shape socioeconomic practices regarding community basic practices as collective and coordinated actions.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: The second of protest that began in 2,011 in Spain, and which led, in the case of Barcelona to the victory of Barcelona and Como into 2,015, was characterized by the issue of democratic radicalization. And you one call most debate in the management of the city.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: as we show here in this table collective action and citizen driving initiatives in Barcelona that we have consider it as the most relevant ones, mainly operate in the social, cultural and in the uran regeneration field from which they put in motion, common in practices and comparatively experiences, seeking to co-produce local point of policies

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: regarding the methodology approach. We propose to answer this. The research questions through a case study that integrates a different dimensions of the analysis, a significant sample of citizen platforms and community management centers. We address this initiative as a movement of coordinated actions, and at influencing state and market logics and actions. At the local level.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: the case as a whole is explored, considering path dependency as well as institutional and contextual factors.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: I'm on this sample. The case of Cambodia is to study more in depth in order to explore the configuration of serious and driving initiatives. This case can be considered an exemplary, an exemplary case, because it represents a long term, maybe indication for community management, and because it, it has become an influence actor in the articulation of factions in favor of the institutionalization re recognition of community management at the local level.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: The analysis is based on indefinitely and documentary analysis of local government grassroots, organizations and social movements, documentary sources.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: It's a community management social cultural center. Open it in 2,011, in a working class neighborhood that is located in an old textile factory of the nineteenth century. This initiative results from a long term process of vindication of the neighborhood movement, which began in 1,973 in the context of neighborhood mobilization for the Rec. For the creation of welfare services that took place in the mayor cities in Spain

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: in 2,009, the neighbor who created the platform for Gambalio, and in 2,011 W. Achieved the first agreement for of community use and management with the local government.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: And with regard to the configuration of analyzed community basic management practices, we have observed that they react against the deficits in the probation of what? For facilities and services which were intensified by the recession and counteract the entrepreneurial approach of the urban governance and local participation model which instrumentally includes citizens in the provision of welfare.

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but excludes them as call decision makers from local governance offers.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: In addition, we can state that historical factors shape claims refer to us of collective action and the production of services and and forms of organization. In the case of citizen platforms and community basic social, cultural centers.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: In this sense we found an historical linkage between the initiatives and the vindication and political campaigns for participation in producing and governing the city of the neighborhood moment during the sixties and the seventies regarding the production

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: of services and management model, we identified Core to our socioeconomic and organizational practices that are inspired by the nineteenth century cooperative moment, such as the development of an outer outarchic management model, based on deliberation, conversationality, and cooperative social relations. We have observed it that particularly Gamba, new became a hub

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: for their reinforced ring for reinforcement and dissemination of reciprocity and solidarity practices. Among other emerging community-based experiences at the city level we can say that community-based management, management, social cultural centers operate a school through infrastructure for grassroots, organizations and movements, since they promote to and practices

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: and forms of social and practice. Yes, as as forums of social agency and solidarity in directions, considering the content, activities and services that they produce, we understand that they represent. It means to desk. And our guys social cultural services with respect to low collectors, coordination and force of cooperation aimed and and introducing changes in sectoral and European governance relations and dynamics.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: The analysis shows that coordinated actions among the initiatives constitute a spaces for the creation and access to key resources, such as in November to ours of collective action that increases their social, Political capacity, expansion, and institutionalization, possibilities of community management. Another aspect of stress is the way which the multi level effects of the great Recession

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alongside the right wing. College coalition govern in the city council in Barcelona, between 2,011 and 2,015. How promoted and now liberal articulation of this initiative with the local administration.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: particularly in those cases, it defends in more autonomy, models, agreements, and conditions for use and management work, precarious and fuzzy, affecting the internal question and the consolidation of the initiatives. Under these conditions autonomy aspirations may

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: we might participate participatory aspirations of community basic initiatives. Since increasing efforts of participants to keep the project alive. I wrote the engagement, though, of those members who don't dispose of enough resources to participate unconditionally. At the same time, the lack of question we have to take it among the participants in the Management Assembly

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: constraints, the organization and coordination, capacity, and the effectiveness in negotiating with the local administration.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: Despite the limitations, the initiatives have built a spaces for debate and articulation of actions

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: in favor of a new approach, of the forms of cooperation between organized citizens and local administrations that defend a more democratic qualification of party community cooperation and the institutionalization of recognition of existing community-based

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: practices into so some 15. With the arrival of the of the Left Wing coalition and the local government, the question of citizen party participation and community mana basic management. We can central in the local political agenda in 2,017, The new and norms of citizen participation, and the development of the City

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: Property program illustrates she a shift from a technical towards the social and political approach, on the on the forms of public community collaboration. The Citizen property program operates as an instrument to promote and regulate the collective use and management as well as public community management of a State own it and private own. It's urban waste L and uses infrastructure and buildings.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: The case of study going to the conclusions, the cases to reverse that such historical and institutional factors are key in understanding the configuration of citizen driving initiatives. And it's capacity to introduce changes towards democratization and the commodification at the level of the organization, and more of the initiatives, as well as at the level of the sector and on your own borders.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: These factors shape the forms of organizations, cooperation and coordination between the initiatives, as well as the configuration of the administrative instruments that qualify the relation between the States and organize it. Citizenship.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: declaration of mechanism, and spaces for the coordination of actions, and the reason and the generation of common resources are key to up the scaling and institutionalization processes.

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However, the possibilities for consolidate consolidation and up the scaling of these initiatives are mainly related to the dynamics of comparative registry which is for market regulation in your own governance as well as to the social, political, and economic context of a given historical moment.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: Community. Basically, initiatives see seek to enhance a dynamic of social, cooperative regulation and to and and to exert pressure in favor of a state and social regulation mechanism us against the acceleration of market regulation principles in sectoral and your own governance.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: By analyzing these cases study, we have seen that community basic initiatives. How how open up a spaces for democratic experimentation and for the production of common resources that were significant to challenge the entrepreneurial perspective of cities and participation that has become predominant in the urban governance smaller since the nineties.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: As a whole these experiences had a role in fostering a new approach to the forms of cooperation between organized citizens and the States by enhancing from the bottom up

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: a dynamic of social, cooperative regulation the introduction of new narratives and new institutional practices, such as public community cooperation and the program of cities and property are examples of this shift. One

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: promoting community basic initiatives as a waste of replacing the role of the State in the provision provision of welfare constrained their capacity of introducing

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: dynamics of democratic deepening in urban governance relations. Community basically initiatives as well as public community cooperation is only possible with a high capacity for mobilization and support from the public sector.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: Despite the limitations these initiatives have contributed, as we have, as we we have said.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: to the promotion of new tools for cities and participation, and the station of more egalitarian relations in the forms of cooperation between the State and the citizen. The citizen property program is key in this regard.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: since its objectives are not only to recognize for existing community basic initiatives, but also to respond through a creative use of the law and the administrative instruments to the lack of a specific level mechanism aimed at regulating access to public private cooperation as well as the transfer of public resources when social organization organizations are involved instead

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: of companies improving with this the conditions for the participation of organized citizens in governments formless.

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: Thank you very much

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where I send in my presentation, and

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Maria Victoria Sanchez Belando: I would for your comments. Thanks.

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Thank you so much. I'm really so sorry that you have to be up at 3 in the morning. But honestly, we are also in the morning, and we still have to go for the next 10 h of this conference, so at least, I hope you'll have a good night sleep after our discussion.

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So now I would like to invite you, Rata, to present. The last presentation of of this session, and you will be talking about the innovative

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okay, so yeah. so yeah, so I would like to. But at the beginning, when I send this abstract. So I was thinking about this innovative

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actions. And I thought that this community really used innovative actions when the later, when I studied more this.

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So I find out that it is not so innovative. But maybe it was quite creative, quite the creative.

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And that's a reason why this community was successful. Okay, so how many minutes? I have

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15. Okay, thank you. Yeah. So first of all, my research problem was related to this conflicts of local communities and local government. And the this is this area is

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very much related with just because the local government has very broad discretion in order to make decisions related to people's everyday life, and because of that people, sometimes such decisions can be maybe quite controversial and ignore

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citizens opinions. And that's the reason that this area is

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just as normal. But we have conflicts in in such a yeah. And the talking about Levina. So it's urban planning process is often grow oriented, characterized by formal. The residence participation and the needs of of residents in relation to the green spaces. Public spaces are often not taken into account. Yeah. And my research questions was

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just to study one community and to look at such questions like, first of all, to which degree is a neighbourhood group able to mobilise the residents, to defend public and green spaces. What factors can affect the residence mobilisation measured as a number of participants. And what factors can affect the impact of mobilisation and collective action?

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This pro growth, strategy or growth machine strategy was a previous very often used by local governments nowadays shifts to this more cultural economic and consumption based strategies that just because local governments are fighting,

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citizens, so it's like what we call like a new new creative class. And because of that, this class in order to attract this creative class, it's very important to pay attention on cultural consumption. And some sort of aesthetics.

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of some contest. And this, according to castles, for example, the arena of history has moved from factory flow to the neighborhood where people seek to control, not

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of means of production, but of collective consumption and cultural consumption. Approach to the city sets up both an urban growth, strategy and experiential tools deployed by those who resisted.

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And here you can see different forms of exponential tools, according to Paso and the

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tools are very important in order to mobilize

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my residence, and it's quite typical and well known

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tools, such as events like communal dinner block or festivals, concerts which

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which don't require a lot of skills from organisers and typically participants or residents like or benefit from joyful and hopeful atmosphere. But and this

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events typically don't have any political orientation or political goal. But it's very important, because it's also reflect some. So it reflects some

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how many of this reflects community potential ready for action.

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of participants, and next formulas to her which needs some didactic skills. A knowledge of gifted and very often is

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it's done by teachers, and it again provides some information about the Commune neighborhood. And it can attract media artists, potential supporters, and so on. And the last is performances. Which is

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retire? Quite notable artistic skills, and not even not resonance, are not always able themselves to do such things, and they rely on

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on participants from outside. And this is such. Performances are very important, because they help to attract for media

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and general public. And this for which is very typical

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how to say it. Very useful in in order to attract medium?

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in networks, legitimacy for some political cause also this. But in order to construct neighbourhood identity, they should have some emotional dimension, and they should resonate with neighborhood values and narratives.

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and they should also try to attract.

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and and another thing, management is should be hierarchical, not participated.

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like traditional means, typically, was based on persuasion through speech and mediated by different organisations and institutions.

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and typically protesters and governments have different narratives and values in order to attract support.

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important if there is local prior protest against the development. And in some countries it's union support is also important. But as we know it, it's up now in decline, and it works not not everywhere.

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on. For example, local government to decision when they and this depends on the degree of mobilization. Also, it's depends on Alice in the local council and the degree of support by progressive major, for example, or some leftist higher level executive. So it's also then 150

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which is very close to Corona Center. And it's and as you see, this neighborhood is close to the river

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a buildings, and they and they are localizes and also their flag blocks. So it's

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a lot of different buildings in this area. But the most important, maybe a more attractive thing is this road close to the river, where people of neighborhood

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spent a lot of your time, but also some residents from owners also come here.

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workshops. Artist workshops in these previous military buildings, and there are nowadays a lot of exhibitions and galleries here, and if there is some sort of mixture of working glass and middle class here. But as I said

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that this region is quite close to on it, and it's getting more prestigious.

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welcome. Yeah. And the main conflict was that the local municipality decided to build throat.

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they they? They have a project, big project, and they decided to build a very road to instead of this, a little tab. And the argument was that that they, we need to clean this area to make useful for all residents. And so on.

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they are trying just

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to make a very, very normal, very simple wrote. But Community tried to do, for example, to show that this is already going to be a broad route the 3

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a 3 lines. And it's not like simple rope. Yeah. Yeah. And if they did like, they just make paper cars and so on.

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to, to protest in the groups. So they just come to the municipality. And they they they a few people, something like 5 people, and they just paint it.

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The Painted Cross.

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and such process was related was, if they painted 163 crosses in front for municipality, and it was like morning for the degrees which are going to be cut it during this project. So they are, according to the project to us. I think they did

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to cut 163 deeds. Yeah, next one also. Already, during time, the getting community was getting much more angry. It was another very interesting thing was that Mia and the

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chief administrative officials were not. They didn't want to meet and to talk with community, and they were waiting some of the life for 2 years in order to force them to talk. And this is also they already did this performance. They had to stop shizophrenia in the in front of when it's a pilot, and they again build this

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this plastic and tires and try and control them. Just to remind the

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this project?

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the neighborhood flags, and so on. Different symbols. Ok? And another thing which I, in my opinion, was very important and successful is they just tried to

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oh, great. the local community organizations, networks.

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a declaration of Kona's local community organizations which they also tried to yant to the mayor, and they also organized different emails like Ayak trips.

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all Gonas communities. But the most the the how to see if the organizer what? This Sanjay community? Yeah. And as you see, they you, you can see also a picture of me. It's all of the. They decided this irony. Ironical things? Yeah.

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yeah. Okay. So they also use the social networks related to street unions, environmental organizations. And they very well used expert networks.

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such as they trying to get support of architects.

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different architects, organizations, universities, and even they use judicial expertise and even started combing in order to pay money for a Tony which represents their interest. Yeah, and okay.

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And the result was that there was free public hearings.

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And concerning this road, and finally, the project was temporarily stopped.

475
01:33:18.270 --> 01:33:38.980
Maybe it was just because of election, so nobody knows when they start it again or not. But, for example, this community and now is celebrating a day without role, so like one year, one year without road, 2 years without throat, and so on. So they just had no new celebration and conclusion. So it's

476
01:33:39.190 --> 01:33:47.120
so. Yes. that exponential activities has the potential for the possible protest. Mobilization in the future

477
01:33:47.220 --> 01:34:09.410
and the mobilization based on highly creative exponential tools is successful because of highly creative events and performances that attracted attention on national mass media and make the community issue more visible and extensive. Expert support networks, strengthen protesters, confidence skills.

478
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The knowledge's resources and protesters are more likely to have impact on local government and the high visibility of the issue enhanced formal collaboration between the local government and the local community, and also this biographies of some residents, because this neighbourhood.

479
01:34:30.480 --> 01:34:39.860
some residents in this neighborhood are very stable, and they live for a few generations. Also.

480
01:34:40.090 --> 01:34:47.460
it also help, maybe more quickly to create this. I collective identity. So thank you.

481
01:34:52.320 --> 01:34:53.070
have to

482
01:34:53.470 --> 01:35:10.149
no worries. No one knows how to operate it. So I think we got in a good company. Thank you so much. I just wanted to mention that it reminds me very much of one of the right to the City Association actions in Post 9 in Poland, which was

483
01:35:10.310 --> 01:35:11.940
in a way

484
01:35:12.610 --> 01:35:34.979
in in contrast, because this was, the road was already there, and the the organization decided to show in the happening form that they need to have the zebras or the crossing just in front of the big train station in Post 9. So they they created a similar, you know, plastic

485
01:35:36.110 --> 01:35:57.290
carpet. You can call it right. And they just put it through the road to show that if the zebra was there, just to really make it very visible to people, how it would look like, and how it would make people's life easier to have this type of crossing, and they actually managed to to push for this change after many years of having to go around in a very dangerous way. So

486
01:35:57.290 --> 01:36:09.709
I think this is a very innovative and created creative way, which seems to be effective. So it seems. It seems that both in countless and in Posner it has some positive effects, and I'm really happy to to hear that.

487
01:36:09.960 --> 01:36:23.469
So I would like now to open the floor for questions. I have some of them, but if you have questions, please put your hand up, and I will try to or or please use the microphone. That would be nice for the people online.

488
01:36:23.510 --> 01:36:28.210
Okay, would you be the first one? Could you grab the mic, or shall I?

489
01:36:29.700 --> 01:36:56.249
I think it's totally okay to have a small question, Nicole. I will be next. And would you like, okay, perfect. So we have 3, 4 5 questions. Wow, thank you so much. Audience here, the best so guys online, we don't have a huge audience. But they're so great they are. They have a lot of questions to you, so I will give them the mic so they you can hear them as well.

490
01:36:59.390 --> 01:37:05.090
I'm just putting it this one.

491
01:37:09.150 --> 01:37:10.609
So

492
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I think I can do it.

493
01:37:23.130 --> 01:37:26.279
But isn't it Ok? Like this?

494
01:37:28.500 --> 01:37:37.430
Okay, thanks. My question is

495
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is to

496
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whether he, as I'm at you don't have. We don't have your your your first name.

497
01:37:45.760 --> 01:37:47.549
and they like

498
01:37:48.780 --> 01:37:54.480
that's your come out. Sorry. Okay, I I I don't want to

499
01:37:54.520 --> 01:38:05.819
to go back to your old presentation, but you mentioned something that puzzled me, but

500
01:38:06.230 --> 01:38:14.109
that interest me a lot. When you said that you talk about reading and rewriting the city.

501
01:38:14.210 --> 01:38:18.930
I was asking to myself what exactly you had in mind, because.

502
01:38:19.300 --> 01:38:20.690
as as you know.

503
01:38:20.810 --> 01:38:27.650
if you go to the history, the literature, history of this picture you will find, and we find

504
01:38:27.740 --> 01:38:34.050
hundreds of examples of now books who are reading and rewriting the city.

505
01:38:34.540 --> 01:38:40.420
and we can refer to.

506
01:38:55.260 --> 01:38:59.440
and before reading, you need to write.

507
01:38:59.790 --> 01:39:11.529
So you start reading and rewriting. But someone has written before reading it. So you see, there is a lot of

508
01:39:11.700 --> 01:39:13.450
question underneath.

509
01:39:13.900 --> 01:39:23.669
and it's also because I'm asking questions myself about the nature of writing and reading.

510
01:39:23.940 --> 01:39:44.719
And, in fact, when you go, it's not only a question regarding modern Mit, but it's regarding the human history. In fact, reading was writing

511
01:39:44.740 --> 01:40:02.460
 a huge path in the transformation of humanity. So my question is simple. What did you have in mind when you say reading and rewriting the city.

512
01:40:11.130 --> 01:40:11.790
Okay.

513
01:40:19.290 --> 01:40:32.520
thank you very much, and thank you for this question. This quote was borrowed from one of the outers who unfortunately don't remember the name at the moment, who wrote on the Gamification of the cities.

514
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and I think he also borrowed it from Alberto, Eco. So there is a clear connection. But what I meant personally saying that is that the model technology gives us the new ways of of reading the city, and this includes all these kind of games

515
01:40:49.710 --> 01:41:11.590
and playful ways to to read the city, but also to write and rewrite the city, because city gives us the surfaces, it gives us textures, and we can read them in a different way and with different grounds, and and as an artist, as a scholar, as a walker, as a citizen, as a tourist we all read it in a very different way.

516
01:41:11.590 --> 01:41:26.530
but also as an artist who can leave their mark. There they can rewrite in a different way, but also anyone from the city could just leave a tech on the wall, which would be also rewriting

517
01:41:26.680 --> 01:41:29.079
the sitting. So this is

518
01:41:29.180 --> 01:41:31.609
kind of what I meant.

519
01:41:31.670 --> 01:41:32.760
Thank you very much.

520
01:41:36.260 --> 01:41:55.819
Hi, thank you. Nicole, I from Poland, it has. it's important that I am from Poland because I would like to ask the question to the to Polish guys about the urban movements and because, like, from what I remember, especially during the first presentation Power was saying that this

521
01:41:55.820 --> 01:42:09.500
as social movement, the the the ones he was investigated. They started, in a way against some, some initiative from the city, or against privatization of

522
01:42:09.500 --> 01:42:32.899
of houses, and now it kind of changed because they were in the opposition at the beginning at the call, the initiative was being in the opposition, and how it changed, and what are the next perspectives for the movements? What are the future? Especially in in mind, that.

523
01:42:32.900 --> 01:42:51.939
far as they were all like opposing something, and now, when they became more, at least in like a general public consciousness in may more in the mainstream. What is the perspective and what maybe not what they should do, but how they are all changing. Thank you. And then I will have a question to you again.

524
01:42:53.980 --> 01:43:13.650
Okay, so the to you. The other question was because I think I didn't quite understand who or the people behind this, this creation of this out And actually, there is one in in Melbourne. And why? I mean, yeah, who are they? And

525
01:43:13.660 --> 01:43:24.639
whether or they were like international community, or there was one person, or how this community of people, a community of artists, started. Thank you.

526
01:43:32.680 --> 01:43:38.089
Well, I guess there was a more question to Paavo. I don't know if he's still online.

527
01:43:40.600 --> 01:43:42.199
Pavo, are you there?

528
01:43:42.220 --> 01:43:43.930
Yeah. Yeah.

529
01:43:44.000 --> 01:43:50.120
Well done. So. Did you hear the question, or shall we repeat it for you.

530
01:43:51.430 --> 01:43:57.960
yeah, I hear the question for Meco. Why am I waiting for all that? Yeah. Just some. Only one question from Kawai.

531
01:43:58.510 --> 01:44:00.069
Yes, go ahead.

532
01:44:00.170 --> 01:44:24.440
Pawel Kubicki: okay, it's difficult to say about the future of a Polish Orban system movement. But this can observe a quite interesting situation. I discuss one kind of aversial movement, some kind of mainstream exactly. Describe another kind of a social movement rather

533
01:44:25.030 --> 01:44:39.410
Pawel Kubicki: left wings anarchist international movement. But for some years we can observe some kind of backlash. it means that we can observe a match on the rising of 250

534
01:44:39.810 --> 01:45:02.160
Pawel Kubicki: right wings. airbus national movement, Poland? which? mobilize according to this log on right to that car and the city, for example, against the progressive progressive Po politics. So maybe this

535
01:45:02.330 --> 01:45:14.920
Pawel Kubicki: this, this will be that future of the official movement in Poland that they we turned to rather turned to to the right side.

536
01:45:15.670 --> 01:45:21.360
Pawel Kubicki: yeah, this 1 one of the option, of course, but

537
01:45:21.400 --> 01:45:47.140
Pawel Kubicki: the best of some one politics on the threshold today, looking for a in aeration, they're looking for the new issues, because, as as I try to now show in my talk in my presentation, that most of narrative, most of of issues of advance from movement was take over by a local outdoor it, and introduce in the progress it more or less progressive urban policies.

538
01:45:47.500 --> 01:45:51.729
Pawel Kubicki: I don't know if I answer for your question.

539
01:45:53.730 --> 01:45:56.119
You want to clarify.

540
01:45:59.030 --> 01:46:14.289
Yeah, I I want it to be to clarify. So your opinion is that for my social movements they need to always be in opposition to like local authorities, because, like, from what I understand, you like.

541
01:46:14.630 --> 01:46:31.729
the authorities or municipalities take over their their progressive program. And now you are expecting that social and or movements, they are going to get a more right wing so they can still be in the opposition.

542
01:46:31.730 --> 01:46:54.329
Pawel Kubicki: Did I get it? Yeah. The this because of the phenomenon of social movement, all social movement that they need a significant other. So can't this mainstream of a baseline? We don't have a serious problem how to find a significant other. And

543
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Pawel Kubicki: look up all in the contemporary authorities and Polish cities. So this might, in my opinion as a problem how to build, so I can't identify when they speak the same language, like the

544
01:47:08.780 --> 01:47:13.479
Pawel Kubicki: more or less the same language about the city today with the outrages of the city.

545
01:47:15.220 --> 01:47:36.190
Thank you, Paul. Now I give voice to

546
01:47:36.190 --> 01:48:05.269
that. They open. There was an opening in urban issues. So they took it. but it's not part it it it doesn't constitute their positive program that much. And I think it actually here was where the trouble is that the urban movement that was talking about. They do have a positive program based on the thesis of the urban Movements Congress, but they hardly manage to enter mainstream with that positive program. That is a problem and overtaking many of these people

547
01:48:05.270 --> 01:48:14.750
issues like expanding bicycle planes, networks, etc., etc., by local authorities actually stole away from those urban movements.

548
01:48:14.750 --> 01:48:39.210
But, on the other hand, actually, it shows the victory of that movement that it actually managed to change the public discourse about how the city is perceived, and this counter movement in the right wing country movement, the right to drive your car in the city and to get rid of bus links, because then we are stuck in the bigger traffic is actually I would consider it also a victory because it actually made Other people deal with urban issues that

549
01:48:39.210 --> 01:49:03.890
that there wasn't the case before 2,006, 2,007 But as for the squading Slash Anarchist movement, I mean now with the current government, they have so many on their hands that urban issues are this small fraction of what they're doing. They just maintain the cooperation with the tenants movements. But there's so many new entry points to pursue their antiques, and they see this agenda, that the orbit issues don't play that much of a role anymore.

550
01:49:07.310 --> 01:49:23.589
yeah, thanks. So this all has started in 1,996 by one single outer by one single artist, and his name is Frank Slama. For many years he was known just as the invader, and.

551
01:49:23.590 --> 01:49:45.899
as far as I know, because he has obviously many copycats in the world. But on the fishermen map there are more than 4,000 works in the whole world. This is all one person. There is no community behind him, and the whole idea actually following the discussion about the social movement being in their position.

552
01:49:45.900 --> 01:49:54.310
So this game? It's not monetized. It's like there is no money involved, and everything there is just

553
01:49:54.640 --> 01:50:05.349
to play. He's done it just to play with his artworks and to play with the city. And I think it's a super beautiful idea to just give this opportunity for 2 people to play.

554
01:50:08.090 --> 01:50:15.899
although I would think that the playing part is a very hipster, gentrifying thing as well. So we have to be careful about that.

555
01:50:16.800 --> 01:50:29.450
Thank you so much. I recognize time is of the essence. So thank you all very much for your presentations. It's given me a lot of inspiration to see a lot of the creativity coming out of these social movements.

556
01:50:29.500 --> 01:50:42.759
Gosh! My question was really about the you commented that the squatting movement had an influence on the tenants movement, and that subsequently their claims

557
01:50:42.790 --> 01:50:50.280
changed about it became about the city. Can you expand a little bit about that process?

558
01:50:50.880 --> 01:50:59.070
What seems to be absent is a justice claim? Was the was it about our access to the city, or or how? How did that? How did that change?

559
01:51:03.580 --> 01:51:24.970
Just briefly, because we are running out of time the tennis moment, started as a self help network People were evicted from their homes that were privatized So the new landlords either increased rent or even resorted to some illegal activities. They were actually companies established how to get rid of unwanted tenant.

560
01:51:24.970 --> 01:51:38.279
And these were. These were families that lived in the same flats for 40, 50 years. So it started as a self-health network. But then, because of the collaboration of the cooperation. With this quoting movement it became politicized.

561
01:51:38.280 --> 01:51:49.110
And pointed out. She started. Addressing or even attacking local authorities for not fulfilling their constitutional duty to provide social housing.

562
01:51:49.110 --> 01:52:12.499
and that expanded to the claim that the city belongs to everybody, also for the for people with less income, and that was a step way beyond self-help network, because it became politicized in a rather unexpected anti-capitalist way, and looking at 2 of cooperation with the Warsaw Tenants Association and the

563
01:52:12.500 --> 01:52:28.590
Mit Ctl. And you know, Kapos Kattenin's Association, you could see that those people that were actually coming there from the tenant side. They really started to to use the politicized the language of right to the city, right to social housing, that is, one

564
01:52:28.590 --> 01:52:39.250
theoretically guaranteed and Polish constitution, and to resist commodification of especially urban housing stock or communal housing stock.

565
01:52:39.250 --> 01:53:00.860
because For many municipalities, actually it doesn't bring much profit. So With this neoliberal way of thinking, they say, that they, they, these city companies that deal with public housing stock, they should start bringing profit, and the easiest way to bring profit was to sell those apartments.

566
01:53:00.860 --> 01:53:25.859
and you get on one hand, you get rid of the problem. And on the other hand, you actually make profit. And this is actually again in this neoliberal philosophy. So they actually started attacking that this communal and public housing stock is not intended to make profit. So you shouldn't think of it as a part of a commercial housing stock. And you, you could see actually a lot of politicization of those

567
01:53:25.860 --> 01:53:35.499
of self-help groups in the years 2,007, 2,01011, more or less. And they continue to be quite active actually until today

568
01:53:36.610 --> 01:54:04.139
and feel free to check out Klagosh publications, which are many, as you mentioned on that topic, and I would like to thank all of the presenters today, and also to self promote. The handbook that Pierre and me edited on the topic that may be close to your heart, and another is an invitation for a second session that concerns new urban mobilization and solidarities which will happen in the very morning of at 8 30 on

569
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Thursday. So I'm really looking forward to seeing you there. If you have a moment, please join us

570
01:54:10.709 --> 01:54:29.550
and thank you again. I found many similarities, and I found it really inspiring. All of the presentation were really great, and thank you for your time, and also for your sleep time as well. So good night to to our online presenters and have a great conference day to all of us here. Thank you.

571
01:54:30.360 --> 01:54:31.480
Thank you.

572
01:54:32.059 --> 01:54:34.000
We do.