Socrates Stratis

" Self and the Contested Cypriot City: Commoning Through Critical Urban Practice - TU Vienna "

“Critical Urban Practice in a Continuum of Transitions "
HafenCity University in Hamburg

“Alternative Ways for Claiming the City”, Keynote talk at the conference “Activating the public space”, organized by “Phytorio- Visual Artists and Art Theorists Association, Nicosia

“Caring for? Architecture as Repair Territorial Practice”, Keynote lecture for the Europan Spain Award Ceremony Workshop, Barcelona, Watch video here: https://vimeo.com/718345100

‘Modalities for co-imagining, when in conflict’ in Urgent Pedagogies, IASPIS, Stockholm, seminar on Modalities (on-line).

“Self and the Contested Cypriot Cities” in Brodersen’s and Selberg’s master design studio, KTH, (on-line).

“Activism through critical urban practice”, in Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, for Honors Students Seminar.

“Self and the Contested City of Nicosia” in Haim Yacobi’s Master program “Urban Health: Reflections on Practice”, UCL, (on-line).

“Self and the contested Cypriot cities” School of Design Strategies, Master of Urban Ecologies, for Studio 3 and Studio 1.

“Stories of becoming public”, Public Space Lab, Parsons New School of Design.

Processes of Negotiation for hybrid territories, Keynote speaker in “Cosmopolitan Habitat”, Hannover (on-line).

“Critical Spatial Practices...or the Right to Transform Conflicts” at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, (on-line).

Alice in Meridianland… or the counter-militarization action”, in Urgent Pedagogies, IASPIS & Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm VIMEO LINK https://vimeo.com/423634876

“The role of the EUROPAN project in the ere of Anthropocene”, (Le role du projet EUROPAN dans l’ere d’anthropocene), Keynote Speaker, at the conference “Europan Celebrates Its Thirty Years”, (Europan Fete ses trente ans), Cite d’Architecture, Paris

“Pedagogies for architecture as urban practice””, School of Architecture, University of Sheffield

“Transformative Processes for common urban Imaginaries in contested spaces”, Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, School of Architecture, University of Cambridge

“Contested Fronts: Commoning Practices for Conflict Transformation”, in international workshop “Laboratory of Urban Commons”, Athens, Greece

“Connecting Through Common Spaces: Redevelopment of Heraklion old city waterfront (Europan 4), Crete” in workshop, Ayios Nicolaos, Crete, Greece

“Transformative Processes for common urban Imaginaries in contested spaces”, in EAHN international conference Histories in Conflict, Jerusalem

“Conflicts in the Studio”, in EAHN, international conference Histories in Conflict, Jerusalem

“Critical Spatial Practices in Contested Spaces”, Keynote speaker, Technion

“Urban exchanges in contested cities” in The possibility of an Island, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem

“Urban exchanges in contested cities” in The possibility of an Island, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem

"Negotiate as You Go Along", keynote lecture at the Europan 13 & 14 Intersession Forum, Badajoz Spain VIMEO LINK https://vimeo.com/190430209, Watch video here: https://youtu.be/K6GjO_hms2k

“Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces”, book presentation at AA Bookstore, London, with Peter Bishop and John Palmesino

"Hands-on Famagusta": collective structures for the city's future, Seminar on Famagusta's Future, Environmentalist Party, Nicosia Cyprus

“Contested Fronts for the Urban Reconstruction of Famagusta: the Cypriot contribution in 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture”, Open University Derynia, and Rotary club Nicosia-Salamis, Nicosia

Support Structure in Contested Spaces-The Hands-on Famagusta Project, at Notre Dame University, Beirut

Imagine Famagusta! Encouraging common visions for a post-conflict city”, Key Note Speech with Esra Can Akbil at the international conference BUILD PEACE 2015

Hands-on Famagusta Web-Interview on Sigmalive, Watch video here: https://youtu.be/HeJZf_EHCG0

"An e-DIY Presentation on the work of AA & U", University of Idaho, USA (web-presentation)

“Vienna-Nicosia: Urban Challenges for a contemporary city”, in a seminar about the future of Nicosia, Cyprus, (with B. Vlay)

“Revisiting Famagusta: Strategies For New Futures”, in “Reviving Famagusta:From Ghost Town to Eco-city?”, London School of Economics, London, UK (with N. Christodoulou, phD candidate)

“About Urban Awareness”, in Socially Engaged Design, SED, Cyprus

"The Cypriot Buffer Zone and Architecture's Agencies" , International Summer Program of the University of Cyprus on Peace and Conflict: the life of the buffer zone at Home For Cooperation, Nicosia

“Spatial Practices' Ethical Dilemmas in Contested Spaces”, in a Graduate Course on Art and Social Practices, Parsons New School of Design, NYC, USA

“Confronting fragmentation in contested spaces: the case of Famagusta, Cyprus”, in ‘Tackling Urban Fragmentation’, organized by the Centre de Recherche sur les Politiques et Sociétés dans le Monde anglophone (MAPS), Paris Sorbonne, Université Paris-

“Famagusta’s possible futures after reunification”, Queen Belfast University, Northern Ireland, UK

“Urban Strategies and Tactics for Reconciliating Processes in Contested Spaces: Famagusta, Cyprus, Institute for Urban and Regional Development, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.

“Designerly translocalities: between urban stories and fairy tales” in “Quartet on Urbanism” (Quartet No 1 on urban mobilities) organized by the Department of Architecture, School of Fine Arts, Vienna Austria and Europan Austria

“Connecting through shared spaces”, in the Forum of Europan Results Vienna, Austria

“Cyprus Weak Metropolis”, in Erasmus IP Summer School, Agros, Cyprus

“Liminalities or Encouraging publicness in contested areas”, in a visual arts bi-communal workshop, Nicosia, Cyprus

“The stand-by condition”, Graduate Seminar on Urban Infrastructures, School of Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

“Searching innovative practices of urban design through the Europan Context: process friendly architectures”, Urban Forum Interventions in former-state residential complexes, Polis University, Tirana, Albania

“Architectures of Encouraging Publicness”, Urban Renewal, 1st International Conference of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and the Foundation for Urban Architecture, Budapest, Hungary

“Negotiating as creative form of engagement in urban design”, Department of Architecture, Volos, University of Thessalia, Greece

“The public role of topographical formations in urban peripheries in Cyprus”, Seminar on Architecture, Urban Development and Heritage Preservation in Modern and Contemporary Cyprus, STARC, Nicosia, Cyprus

“The notion of Liminality”, Liminal Zones 02, University of East London, UK

“Entre global et local: la notion de projet comme moyen de construction de connaissances’ (Between global and local : the notion of project as vehicle for constructing knowledge), Lecture Series for postgraduate students of Ecole Nationale Superieur

“New possibilities for the future of Nicosia centre”, High Rise buildings in Nicosia seminar, Nicosia, Cyprus

“2+3 projects”, Institut of Technology of Graz, Austria

“Europan 4, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Europan 9, Forum of Results, Santiago del Compostela, Spain

“Making things Public”, School of Architecture, University of Cottbus, Germany

“Intercosmics”, Architecture Lecture Series, University of Cyprus, Nicosia

“The regard of the others”, designing a house extension, Nicosia, Cyprus

“Generating the new – Agii Anargiri, Larnaca, Cyprus”, closing event of the results of Europan Norway – Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

“The CALL # 192” project and the “P.P.S Synergy Convoy project”, conference about borders in Gorizia, University of Gorizia, Italy

“Transgressing limits between parallel worlds, Nicosia, Cyprus”, Going Public seminar by Claudia Zanfi, Modena, Italy