a deliberately incomplete description

mapping and investigating physical/cultural
spatiality in central-east europe

providing an english-language, cross-border forum for scholarship and activism
on critical urban studies, spatial justice, social aspects of the built environment

commitment to an anti-racist, gender-balanced, lgbtq+ inclusive, non-hierarchical,
and above all economically just vision for built space in our region

bringing together participants in practice – policy – academia – activism – society

philosophy – method -practice

our aim is to facilitate – encourage – stimulate – nurture – support… engaged public scholarship – critique – practice – activism on questions of critical urban/geographic studies, spatial justice, social aspects of the built environment, specifically (yet not exclusively) in central and eastern europe or beyond.

our intention is to create an open platform (framework? container? or other metaphor? the question is deliberately unresolved…) for lateral, non-hierarchical, a-hegemonic knowledge creation within one of the world’s semi-peripheral regions, with a hope of further cross-pollination, inspiration, intellectual exchange with others.

we have been inspired to create this virtual space by the current lack of similar platforms bringing together practitioners, scholars, activists, or involved members of the public across national and linguistic barriers – or conversely diverted (processed?) through the main centers of intellectual production. the use of an english-language medium should, of course, be treated with all due care for its own power implications, yet for immediately practical purposes, as well as further communication – dissemination of our thoughts and experiences, it appears the best alternative.