 infra-demos PI just published a new article on Airbnbization of Europe, Mobility and Property.
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 Dimitris Dalakoglou, PI of infra-demos and Professor of Anthropology at VU, participates in the big debate on free-spaces in the city of Amsterdam organised by ADM free-space. The current city council coalition agreement was based on the idea that Amsterdam is unique because of its long counterculture tradition. Now that ADM, one of its largest free-spaces is likely to be evicted around Christmas, the city of Amsterdam is at risk of losing a crucial part of its character. What is the future of Amsterdam under the current urban growth pattern?
Tuesday 4-12 at 19:30. in Parkhuis De Zwijger* More details available in this link.  infra-demos is presented on Nov 9th in the international workshop on infrastructures and mobility organised by the Catalan Institute of Anthropology and the University of Barcelona in Barcelona.
For more information follow the link  A new article by Dimitris Dalakoglou and Yannis Kallianos of infra-demos team was published in the journal Political Geography. The article titled: 'Eating mountains' and 'eating each other'' and it talks about the relationship between political imaginary and infrastructures in Greece since the 1990s.
The article is available to be downloaded for free for 50 days following this link Article by the infra-demos PI on urban infrastructures in the Dutch daily newspaper het Parool17/9/2018  Professor Dimitris Dalakoglou, infra-demos' PI, just got published an op-ed in the Dutch daily newspaper het Parool on the commercialization of urban real estate and its impact infrastructures and public interest.
The full article is available here  By Christos Giovanopoulos The Solidarity Schools in Greece were created in the context of the crisis to counter the acute increase of inequalities in education. At the same time, they have been laboratories of self-organised educational structures. Moreover, their practices are integrated within broader solidarity networks as autonomous learning communities. By putting democracy and mutualism at the core of their organizational function and pedagogic practices they renegotiate the ways in which self-organised structures of education and of knowledge production and sharing liaise with their local (or more expanded) communities. This weekend the Solidarity Schools convene for first time in a two-day meeting in order to “further our democratic way of operating… to deconstruct the teacher-centered way of understanding education and learning and to construct the visionary frame of decentralized, autonomous and non-hierarchical educational communities”, as they state in the meeting’s call. In that way they aim “to cultivate a cohesive visionary frame for our role, to better describe our goals, to highlight and empower «good» practices on the educational spectrum… to defend education as a common good, to continue to reclaim by creating!”, as their invitation concludes. Foregrounding the creative and socially innovative properties of their attempt has been one of the foundational qualities of the solidarity schools, which makes them stand apart from other ‘demand orientated’ (towards the state and public authorities) movements in education. The two-day meeting aims to enhance such prefigurative and transformative function of the Solidarity Schools’ Network and of other alternative educational endeavors. The program of the meeting includes sessions and workshops on the solidarity schools as communities of participatory action and democracy; on their relation with the social and solidarity economy and the commons; on social pedagogy and communities of learning; on interculturalism and the education of immigrants and refugees; on gender identity and equality in/and education. It must also be noted that the meeting aspires to connect with analogous experiences from outside Greece. To this aim collectives, educationalists and researchers from Italy, Switzerland, France, UK, Turkey and Germany have been invited and will also take part in the procedures. Those delegates represent also a variety of formal and informal educational and community based institutions, which share nevertheless their critical and reforming attitude towards a more inclusive, participatory and democratic mode of education and pedagogy. Infra-demos, has been part of the organizing group of the two-day meeting from its outset. Infra-demos has contributed specifically to the organizing and facilitation of the session on the relation between the solidarity schools, solidarity economies and the commons. The session will develop in two axes. Firstly, drawing by the experience of the solidarity schools will attempt to show the different perception that they cultivate in regard to resource management, economic relations and transactions, based on use value through practices of mutualism and free exchange. The second focus will be on the relationship of the solidarity schools with their local communities, available resources and know-how, and with the existing municipal framework. The aim is to start imaging and working out institutional formats and changes that need to be achieved in order the autonomous educational communities to be sustainable. For those interested you can find more in: http://meeting.solidarityschools.gr/en/  AbdouMaliq Simone
Research Professor of Sociology Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Lila Leontidou Professor of Geography University of Peloponnese Dimitris Dalakoglou Professor of Social Anthropology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (infra-demos) Chaired by Yannis Kallianos Post-Doc Fellow in Anthropology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (infra-demos) May 12th, 2018 Netherlands Institute at Athens, Makri 11, 117 42 Plaka 18:00-20:30 Following the seminar that infra-demos.net organised in November 2017 in Amsterdam, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, we would like to invite you to our next seminar which will take place in Athens in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute at Athens. The seminar will focus on the relationship between infrastructure and crisis to discuss everyday innovations associated to socio-technological forms of participation arising within the infrastructural gap (IG). The infrastructural gap (IG) which emerged in the West after the rupture of the 2008 crisis refers to the difficulty of the state and private sector to sustain infrastructural networks. At issue is the fact that within this new infrastructural condition transformative potentials and innovative socio-technical practices have risen to produce innovative forms of civil activity, and thus explore non institutional ways of political participation. Infrastructures lie at the core of this process, both as sites of contestation where the previous model of urban governance can be challenged and as spaces through which technological innovations and new crisis-resilient socio-technological systems can emerge. The seminar touches upon these issues and beyond in order to explore the production of infrastructural relations in times of crisis and turmoil. The seminar is co-organized by the infra-demos project, the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA) and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The seminar will take place at the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA), Makri St. 11, Athens, 11742, from 18:00-20:30 followed by a wine reception. We look forward to seeing you there.  The Principal Investigator of infra-demos, Dimitris Dalakoglou is involved also as the PI (together with Dimitris Pavlopoulos of VU Sociology) in the project PRECARIAT that studies the deregulation of labour market in Europe, focusing empirically in Greece. PRECARIAT just launched its website, whilst its publications are expected soon. PRECARIAT is funded from the Institute of Societal Resilience and the departments of Sociology and Social & Cultural Anthropology of Vrije University Amsterdam (VU).
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