Urban Imaginaries of Negotiation in Marvila

Falanga, Roberto and Mafalda Corrêa Nunes

November 22, 2022<March 30, 2023

Urban Imaginaries of Negotiation in Marvila

Roberto Falanga and Mafalda Corrêa Nunes

Roberto Falanga and Mafalda Corrêa Nunes examine how local community groups in Lisbon’s Marvila have asserted their right to shape the regeneration process of the area within the wider goals of city rebranding.

November 22, 2022<November 22, 2022

Keep it Blurry: Imagining Martim Moniz

Andrea Pavoni

More than any other place, Martim Moniz square embodies the conflicted nature of Lisbon’s urban imaginaries. Andrea Pavoni reflects on the struggles over its use and argues for the importance of a “blurry” vision of the city.

November 22, 2022<November 22, 2022

Who Profits? And Who Should? Notes on Coletividades, Gentrification and Political Agency in Arroios

Marco Allegra

Marco Allegra writes about the role of coletividades—non-commercial spaces—and local groups in the transformation of Lisbon’s Arroios, and questions some of the standard narratives of the neighbourhood’s gentrification.

November 21, 2022<November 22, 2022

Imagining, and Struggling in, Lisbon’s East Side

Simone Tulumello

Where is Lisbon's East Side and who defines it? Simone Tulumello discusses the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the identity of the area and emphasises the conflictual nature of capitalist urbanism.

November 21, 2022<November 21, 2022

From Conflicting to Overlapping Imaginaries: A Cartography of Urban Imaginaries in East Lisbon

Lavínia Pereira and João Felipe P. Brito

In their introduction to the second part of the roundtable, Lavínia Pereira and João Felipe P. Brito discuss the overlapping nature of urban imaginaries and pose questions for the contributors about strategies of “reverse imagineering” in East Lisbon.

November 10, 2022<November 10, 2022

Under Construction: Searching for Future Ruins on the Eastern Riverfront of Lisbon

Andrea Pavoni

Andrea Pavoni takes a psychogeographical tour of Lisbon’s eastern riverfront, a fragmented landscape which is permanently “under construction” and ruined at the same time.

November 9, 2022<March 30, 2023

Urban Imaginaries of Contention in Marvila

Roberto Falanga and Mafalda Corrêa Nunes

Roberto Falanga and Mafalda Corrêa Nunes report on Lisbon’s participation in a major European Commission project and analyse the multi-layered and often conflicting urban imaginaries that characterize the redevelopment of the Marvila district.

November 8, 2022<December 19, 2022

“What’s in a name?”: Imagining Arroios

Marco Allegra

Lisbon’s Arroios was dubbed “the world’s coolest neighborhood” by Time Out. Marco Allegra considers the power of naming and asks what's at stake in such rankings of “coolness.”

November 7, 2022<November 21, 2022

Introduction: Conflicting Imaginaries in East Lisbon

Lavínia Pereira and João Felipe P. Brito

In their roundtable introduction, Lavínia Pereira and João Felipe P. Brito survey the ongoing transformation of East Lisbon and discuss “conflicting imaginaries” as a framework for understanding the intersection of the local and the global in the "Mouraria–Marvila axis."

November 7, 2022<November 7, 2022

Cosmopolitan, Racialized, or Both: Conflicting Imaginaries in Mouraria

Simone Tulumello

Simone Tulumello examines the tensions between racialization and cosmopolitanism in Lisbon’s Mouraria neighbourhood, where imaginaries of multiculturalism have been co-opted as part of the capital’s push for global city status.

December 14, 2021<December 14, 2021

A Sense of Place: Repairing, Maintaining and Reimagining Social Housing on Film

Caterina Sartori

Challenging views of social housing as dysfunctional and dystopian, Caterina Sartori examines films that reimagine everyday social space through practices of care, repair and maintenance.

December 13, 2021<December 15, 2021

Permanent Precarity: Transient Spaces and Horrific Indebtedness in the Midwest

Adam Ochonicky

Adam Ochonicky explores the relationship between mobility and precarity in the Midwestern spaces of It Follows.