Spaces and Practices of Everyday Community Resilience
A special issue of Architecture (ISSN 2673-8945).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 181
Special Issue Editors
Interests: late modernist welfare housing; welfare landscapes; pratice-oriented research methods; feminist spatial practices; gendered labour; equality, diversity, inclusion policies; urban pedgagogies; practices of resilience
Interests: urbanity; modernity; architectural history; architectural theory; participatory urban processes; transformative collaboration; social habitat; community resilience
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to study the collective everyday practices of community resilience and their spaces. We invite contributions that address collaborations between citizens, researchers and municipalities that have stimulated the organizing capacity of communities. We are interested in discussing the methods that have been developed for recognizing, mapping, connecting, and strengthening everyday practices of collective resilience; the digital and other toolkits that have been created for connecting people and neighbourhoods; and the relevant strategies and tactics, processes and procedures, pedagogical formats, and policies developed and their scales.
The project attends to the needs of cities and neighbourhoods and collective efforts that aim to increase capacity for local processes of ecological transition grounded in urban livability, justice, inclusivity and active community engagement. This Special Issue will answer the following questions: Who are the actors, initiators, mediators, and multipliers of these emerging networks? Where do they thrive? What transformational imaginaries may they inspire?
We invite researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators and policy-makers to contribute to this Special Issue. Broad themes for contributions may include transformative learning practices, urban commons ecologies and economies, redefining everyday practices, and civic resilience.
Dr. Meike Schalk
Dr. Daniela Calciu
Dr. Oana Druta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- civic resilience
- spaces of resilience
- everyday practices
- transformative learning
- urban commons
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