What to expect in this cluster?

Clémentine Cottineau-Mugadza

We understand the periphery as a mirror of society beyond dominant ideologies: its conflicts, values, exclusions, segregations and aspirations become tangible in spatial configurations, and in the relationships between built form, open space, people, socio-economic processes, and metabolic flows. This cluster, therefore, engages with critical reading of territorial morphology across  scales and its embedded social-ecological metabolism.  Urbanism, understood as a projective practice, uses the relationship between form, counter-form, socio-economic processes and metabolism to interpret and transform territories.

This cluster approaches design as a critical, political, spatially precise and strategic practice for shaping urbanity across scales.This entails taking a position on what is made accessible or excluded, what is protected or exposed, and which forms of everyday life are enabled or hindered through space and urban morphology. 

The cluster “Lost and Found Urbanities” will guide projects in exploring and reactivating overlooked, fragmented, and marginal urban conditions as spaces for public life, spatial imagination, and metropolitan transformation.