"What does it mean to have the right to the city in the contemporary urban world?" Tatiana Efremenko

Tatiana Efremenko

"What does it mean to have the right to the city in the contemporary urban world?"
The city is the place where inequality, injustice and exploitation are most visible, but it is also the site of its transformation and resistance. The right to the city has emerged as a call for action encouraging local communities to transform urban realities under the principles of socio-spatial justice. The city is a theater of everyday life, and physical spaces of the city are its stage used by the city dwellers to claim, transform and appropriate those spaces and places in the form of protests, performance acts or individual struggles.

Tanya will give a glance on different ways to claim the right to the city she has encountered throughout her studies, work and personal experiences. In particular, she will talk about the traditional way of how the right to the city can be expressed as a collective voice in the form of women’s struggles to build their capacity for meaningful participation in urban development and governance, or citizens who defend their homes in informal settlements in Portugal and Turkey. Then, examples of a more individual and subtle approach to demand the right to the city will be brought up by the practices of urban exploration of abandoned and hidden spots in the cities. She will also bring an example of how an anthropological approach to study the right to the city was a way to influence the decision-making process of the urban renewal project in Spain.

Tanya Efremenko holds a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from AUCA and a Master’s degree in Urban Studies as a part of Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree in four cities (Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen, Madrid). After completing her studies, she moved to Denmark to start working as a project coordinator at the art gallery. Later she completed an internship and worked at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. In 2018, she also became a co-founder of a start-up, where they help small and medium companies to integrate circular economy principles in their business models.

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