Oris X4: CITIES AND SPACES OF URBAN LIFE BEYOND COVID-19: TOWARDS POST-PANDEMIC SPACES

PANEL
TOWARDS POST-PANDEMIC SPACES
Moderator: Srećko Horvat
With:
Boris Buden, philosopher, most recently published the book The Third Unconscious (Verso, 2021);
Franco Berardi "Bifo", philosopher, most recently published book The Third Unconscious (Verso, 2021);
Renata Ávila, CEO of Open Knowledge Foundation, digital rights advocate
Srećko Horvat, philosopher, most recently published book After the Apocalypse (Polity Press, 2021, in cooperation with the KTH Centre for the Future of Places).
After two years of the pandemic, we have witnessed an accelerated shift towards automation, digitalization and other technological advancements in places we live in (whether it is in our cities or in our own apartments), in the nature of work and at the very core of our private vs. public life. At the same time, supply chains and global transport are facing serious difficulties making urban life - with ever growing prices for electricity, transport, food - even more difficult. With the acceleration and multiplication of catastrophic events, from climate crisis (wildfires, floods, drought, heatwaves, sea levels rising) to natural disasters (earthquakes, volcano eruptions), urban environments are at even more risk and going through profound changes. How to envisage an approach to spatial thinking - or imagining a future of places - that would take into account not only the technological challenges but also the multiplicity of catastrophes that are not coming in some undefined future, but are already here and now? Can cities be transformed into an expression of the deep - utopian or heterotopian - dreams of our time, or will they end up in a dystopian nightmare of "smart cities" fostering further surveillance and data extractivism, refeudalized and gated communities excluding the poor, migrants and refugees?
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