We warmly invite colleagues, students, activists, and anyone interested in the
politics of knowledge and urban transformation to join useither in person in
Vienna or online to join this panel discussion:
Panel Discussion: Alternative Knowledge Practices and the Politics of Urban
Transformation
Date & Time: Thursday, 2 October 2025, 16:0017:00 (CET)
Location: STS Seminar Room, Universittsstrae 7 (Staircase II, 6th floor),
1010 Vienna
Online: Join via Zoom:
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/66316904921?pwd=r1GDvmtYWB56idhJkFry6HQftrVvIb.1
(Meeting ID: 663 1690 4921, Passcode: 182974)
How can alternative knowledge practices reshape our cities? This public panel
brings together contributors to a forthcoming special issue of Environment and
Planning C: Politics and Space to explore how diverse knowledgesemerging from
resistance movements, informal practices, and marginalized
perspectivescontribute to the politics of urban transformation.
The discussion will engage with cases ranging from:
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Strategies of homeless communities in Chennai,
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Urban space-making practices of children in Chile,
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Learning processes in Urban Living Labs in Maastricht,
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Counter-expertise in self-organised housing groups in Vienna,
- And citizen/community science initiatives for urban wildlife in European
cities.
By focusing on urban frictionsthe tension-filled encounters where knowledges
collide, resist, and transformthe panel will explore how alternative ways of
knowing cities are produced, contested, and co-opted, and what this means for
imagining more inclusive, just, and multispecies urban futures.
Organisers:
Andrea Schikowitz (FH Wiener Neustadt)
Pouya Sepehr (WSL, Zurich)
Denver V. Nixon (Maastricht University)
Anique Hommels (Maastricht University)
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Pouya Sepehr, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher at
DISCLOSE
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Swiss Federal Research Insitute WSL
Zrcherstrasse 111
CH-8903 Birmensdorf
Switzerland
+41 44 739 28 17
pouya.sepehr@wsl.ch
https://www.wsl.ch/fr/personnel/sepehrpo/
www.wsl.ch
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