movements of the 1980s

Dear all

Our virtual INURA conference is approaching!

Movements of the 1980s
International Network for Urban Research and Action INURA / Zentrum Architektur Zürich ZAZ
Saturday, December 5, 16:00 – 19:00 CET (15:00 – 18:00 in the UK, 10:00 – 13:00 in Toronto)

Registration and zoom link: anmeldung@zaz-bellerive.ch

Programme

16:00 – 16:30
Philipp Klaus and Christian Schmid: Movements of the 1980s / The Zurich movement

16:30 – 17:30
Virginie Mamadouh: Squatting and alternative movements in Amsterdam before 1980
Arie van Wijngaarden: Squatting in Amsterdam in the 1980’s
Tino Buchholz: What happened to Dutch pragmatism & civil squatting?

Roger Keil and Philipp Oswalt: The Startbahn West movement in Frankfurt

17:30 – 17:45
break

17:45 – 18:45
Michael Edwards: London – Fragments of action and intellectual work in the 1970s

Marvi Maggio: The movement of 77 (movimento del settantasette) in Torino
Lorenzo Tripodi: Media activism in Italy in the 1980s and 1990s

18:45 – 19:00
Final discussion

We have a guiding question for this conference: Until today, there is almost no overall discussion on these movements of the 1980s in Europe, despite the fact that they had sometimes important impacts and consequences in many local contexts, and were also connected in many ways. What were the commonalities of these movements, in what ways were they different from the movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and why is there so little discussion about these experiences? I just found one single book discussing these movements in a broader context (see attachment).