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Papers by Georgios Artopoulos

Innovative renewable energy, Dec 31, 2022

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 6, 2022

eCAADe proceedings, 2007

This paper presents project-specific information and theoretical discussion on the design process... more This paper presents project-specific information and theoretical discussion on the design process and the computational methods used to develop advanced adaptive structural components in relationship to behavioral goals, criteria and constraints.

IOP conference series, Jun 1, 2023

Dynamic simulation tools are widely used in the workflow of energy retrofitting historic building... more Dynamic simulation tools are widely used in the workflow of energy retrofitting historic buildings as they contribute to the development of an optimised, cost-effective renovation strategy. Additionally, Building Information Modelling (BIM) applied in heritage buildings can provide a holistic platform that improves collaboration between different stakeholders involved in the management, restoration and energy-retrofit of heritage buildings, by facilitating data sharing and project coordination. However, the use of BIM for energy simulation is rarely implemented due to emerging technical complexities regarding data interoperability. In response to the above shortcomings, the paper addresses the challenges of integrating a) dynamic energy performance analysis and b) financial feasibility analysis, using Heritage-BIM (H-BIM) tools. Insights and knowledge acquired through the case of a deep renovation of a historic building in ruin condition is presented. Specifically, an integrated H-BIM approach was developed by the authors in order to propose cost-effective energy efficiency upgrade measures. The energy improvement measures concern the upgrade of the thermal transmission of the building envelope, the incorporation of efficient heating, cooling and mechanical ventilation systems, as well as the incorporation of renewable energy systems. The economic feasibility study is based on widely used financial indicators, including life cycle cost analysis (LCCA). The proposed workflow aims to become a useful methodological tool for public authorities, assisting the attraction of financing mechanisms for the restoration and energy-upgrade of the historic building stock.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 29, 2023

In an era of rapid technological improvements, state-of-the-art methodologies and tools dedicated... more In an era of rapid technological improvements, state-of-the-art methodologies and tools dedicated to the protection and promotion of our cultural heritage should be developed and extensively employed in the management of our built environment. At the same time, sustainability principles underline the importance of the continuous use of historic or vernacular buildings as part of the building stock of our cities. The adoption of a holistic, integrated, multidisciplinary strategy can bridge technological innovation with the conservation and restoration of heritage buildings. The project "Portal for heritage buildings' integration into the contemporary built environment" (Urban PERIsCOPE) provides an innovative platform for the identification, classification, documentation, and renovation of heritage buildings-a tool that can be exploited by a variety of stakeholders related to the conservation and retrofit activities. Urban PERIsCOPE enables the exploitation of state-of-the-art techniques in the scientific fields of Building Information Modelling (BIM), remote sensing, terrestrial and aerial 3D modelling techniques, and non-destructive onsite testing, pursued by the leading research and academic institutions of Cyprus in these fields. The Urban PERIsCOPE platform addresses specific stakeholders to impact culturally and economically the society of Cyprus, including public authorities and policymakers (Town Planning and Housing

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jul 17, 2023

Within the UP project, the naming convention follows the requirements specified in BS1192: 2007 (... more Within the UP project, the naming convention follows the requirements specified in BS1192: 2007 (Collaborative production of architectural, engineering and construction information-Code of practice) and will be used to name all kinds of FILES referring to the HBIM models, namely 3D BIM models, point clouds, mesh, models, CAD files, drawings, reports, simulation files, etc., that are stored in the Common Data Environment (CDE). Even if somewhat more complex than other systems the choice of the BS1192 regulation is based on its widespread diffusion. The new ISO 19650-3 should provide an international standard for the naming convention in the foreseeable future. The naming convention does not apply to a huge amount of data collected together, like geometric survey files (photographs, scan files), mesh models files, historical data, LCA files, or internal documents; in this case, the naming convention could apply to the folder in where the data are stored. The naming convention should generally be applied to the files directly produced within the project that are most important for the HBIM process (such as all the files linked to the HBIM models, simulation files, etc.). Nevertheless, a general name coding has been set for the internal needs of the UP project. The name will be composed of single fields of code, representing the file's metadata so that the name itself will provide information without the file being opened. Names should be created by joining together the codes in the specified fields, in the specified order, using the "-" hyphen character.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2023

The purpose of the Exchange Information Requirements document is to provide support and to serve ... more The purpose of the Exchange Information Requirements document is to provide support and to serve as a requirements guide for the design and production of the necessary semantically enriched datasets of the pilot buildings, which were selected by the project Expert Group (10 buildings in the Old Strovolos core district, Nicosia, and 9 buildings in the Cami Cedid and Arnaut districts, and city centre of Limassol) to function as testbeds for the development of the UP Platform. These datasets of multidisciplinary representations of the pilot buildings will be created as central models to be hosted on an open-source, online platform, which will provide access to these datasets, previously generated in T4.3 (WP4), through a BIM viewer. The objective of this process is data integration and flow optimization, creating a hierarchy of the information (i.e., metadata linked with 3D assets), according to the Heritage BIM (HBIM) goals. The amount of data available will be filtered according to the parameters that are useful for management and system maintenance. Throughout the various phases of this process, the Exchange Information Requirements document provides an operational framework to guide the modellers through the technical modalities of BIM processes. These phases are described in the BIM Execution Plan to ensure consistency and coherence in the use of the BIM software. This guideline document is based on a standard Exchange Information Requirements (EIR) Template based on ISO 19650-1, which is required for service agreements or contracts following the Construction Industry Council (CIC) BIM Standards and methodology.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), May 9, 2022

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2023

The scope of the BIM Execution Plan is to outline the way the Urban PERIsCOPE project team will u... more The scope of the BIM Execution Plan is to outline the way the Urban PERIsCOPE project team will use BIM workflows, tools, and methodologies to achieve the desired project outcomes. It includes details such as the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders that will be involved, the timeline for the project, the methods that the team should follow as well as the deliverables that should be produced. It also includes information about the BIM quality management system to be used and the software and hardware that will be required. In short, the present document sets the goals and coordinates of the project and communicates the BIM goals and objectives. This guideline document is based on a standard Exchange Information Requirements (EIR) Template based on ISO 19650-1, which is required for service agreements or contracts following CIC BIM Standards.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jul 17, 2023

This document presents the way the BIM data integrated into the 3d model must be exported and org... more This document presents the way the BIM data integrated into the 3d model must be exported and organised in order to be uploaded properly in the UP Platform. The Project Urban PERIsCOPE INTEGRATED/0918/0034 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research Innovation Foundation. The Project Urban PERIsCOPE INTEGRATED/0918/0034 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research Innovation Foundation. 5 01_Historical Data UP_XXX _XXX_DrawingsOfExistingConditions_SHR UP_XXX _XXX_DrawingsOfExistingConditions_jpeg UP_XXX _XXX_DrawingsOfExistingConditions_dwg UP_XXX _XXX_DrawingsOfExistingConditions_pdf UP_XXX _XXX_ Conservation State Analysis_SHR UP_CST-XXXXXX_doc UP_CST-XXXXXX _pdf UP_CST-XXXXXX_Jpeg UP_XXX _XXX_PhotographsOfExistingConditions_SHR UP_XXX _XXX_IdentityData_SHR.xlsx UP_XXX _XXX_BuildingDescription_SHR.doc UP_XXX _XXX_ListedTab_SHR.jpeg 02_hBIM UP_XXX _XXX_ExistingConditionsSurvey_SHR UP_XXX _XXX_ExistingConditionsSurvey_jpeg UP_XXX_XXX_ExistingConditionsSurvey_las UP_XXX_XXX_3DGeometricalReconstruction_SHR UP_XXX _XXX_3DGeometricalReconstruction_jpeg UP_XXX _XXX_M3_SHR.fbx UP_XXX _XXX _Ifc_SHR UP_XXX _ARC_XXX_M3_ifc UP_XXX_CYI_XXX_2dDrawings_SHR UP_XXX_XXX_hBIMLibrary_SHR (*rfa files) UP_XXX _XXX_BOQ_SHR.xlsx UP_XXX _ARC_XXX_SheetList_SHR.xlsx UP_XXX_ARC_XXX_M3_SHR.pdF The Project Urban PERIsCOPE INTEGRATED/0918/0034 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research Innovation Foundation. 6 03_LCA UP_XXX _XXX_LCA_pdf 04_NDT UP_XXX _XXX_NDTReport_SHR UP_XXX _XXX_NDTModel_jpeg UP_XXX _XXX_NDTReport_jpeg UP_XXX _XXX_NDTReport_doc UP_XXX _XXX_NDTReport_pdf UP _XXX_XXX_IR Thermographs_jpeg UP_XXX _XXX_NDT_SHR.exe UP_XXX _XXX_NDTWebStandalone_SHR.txt 05_Interactive visualization UP_XXX _XXX_Rederings_SHR UP_XXX_7D.01_CYI_XXX_360Rederings_SHR UP_XXX_XXX_RD_SHR.exe UP_XXX _XXX_RDWebStandalone_SHR.txt

Building Research & Information

Intellect Books, Jun 1, 2016

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2023

ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 2023

The architectural complex of the al-Madrasa al-Halawiyya in Aleppo, Syria, remains one of the mos... more The architectural complex of the al-Madrasa al-Halawiyya in Aleppo, Syria, remains one of the most remarkable monuments in the centuries-old city. First founded as the Church of St. Helen in the 6th century to serve as the Cathedral of Byzantine Aleppo, the structure preserves evidence of a complicated building history. For example, the Cathedral was converted into a mosque in 1124; later, parts of the church were integrated into a Madrassa. More recently, damage to the structure due to the war revealed information about Byzantine building methods. This research revisits the building history of the monument by relying on a parametric, Building Information Modelling (BIM) representation to compare the surviving structure with earlier reconstructions. This article addresses the following: (1) A survey of the building's history, topography, and architecture: Over the centuries, al-Madrasa al-Halawiyya has attracted Medieval monks, travellers, brigands, scholars, and more. Their accounts offer exciting opportunities to contextualise structural and functional changes to the complex. (2) An analysis of the historical structure, especially from the Byzantine period: The presented three-dimensional (3D) documentation of the site focused on historical transformations, which the authors then traced and compared by means of BIM to reconstructions proposed by Samuel Guyer (1911) and Michel Écochard (1950). This research demonstrates how a hybrid methodology can be used to establish building phases for comparison with historical and scholarly accounts, revealing new knowledge about building techniques and processes. The presented work started with a field survey of the monument, which was used to generate a hybrid 3D point cloud. Using the point cloud, the Byzantine church was virtually reconstructed and several construction phases were identified. At the same time, Heritage-BIM models were created based on the work of Guyer and Écochard. Finally, the Guyer and Écochard models were compared with the proposed Byzantine reconstruction and point cloud.

Journal of Cultural Heritage

Building Research & Information

International Journal of Architectural Heritage

Innovative renewable energy, Dec 31, 2022

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 6, 2022

eCAADe proceedings, 2007

IOP conference series, Jun 1, 2023

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 29, 2023

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jul 17, 2023

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2023

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), May 9, 2022

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2023

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jul 17, 2023

Building Research & Information

Intellect Books, Jun 1, 2016

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2023

ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 2023

Journal of Cultural Heritage

Building Research & Information

International Journal of Architectural Heritage

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE, 2023

Digital analytical tools combined with 3D documentation are used incrementally in building rehabi... more Digital analytical tools combined with 3D documentation are used incrementally in building rehabilitation in the conservation state analysis process. In the last decade, due to the current advancements in the Architecture Engineering Construction (AEC) industry, the application of BIM methods in heritage building conservation started becoming more attractive for specialists and practitioners. In light of the latest concepts in data management at city level, as a result of the discussion about smart city representations, the use of a shared digital environment that caters to technical studies related to conservation analysis, building provenance, structural changes, and urban context transformations can lead to reduced time, improved quality, and lowered cost of city management for all domain experts and city stakeholders. This paper explores the benefits of multi-scale and discipline digitization for the restoration of heritage buildings, highlighting the potential impact of innovative data integration, methods, and workflows on architectural renovation and energy upgrades. Specifically, it focuses on the integration of conservation information for heritage buildings and large-scale environmental analysis data for historic clusters in modern cities.

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37:102787, 2021

Contemporary discourse points to the central role that heritage plays in the process of enabling ... more Contemporary discourse points to the central role that heritage plays in the process of enabling groups of various cultural or ethnic background to strengthen their feeling of belonging and sharing in society. Safeguarding heritage is also valued highly in the priorities of the European Commission. As a result, there have been several long-term initiatives involving the digitisation, annotation and cataloguing of tangible cultural heritage in museums and collections. Specifically, for built heritage, a pressing challenge is that historical monuments such as buildings, temples, churches or city fortification infrastructures are hard to document due to their historic palimpsest; spatial transformations, actions of destruction, reuse of material, or continuous urban development that covers traces and changes the formal integrity and identity of a cultural heritage site. The ability to reason about a monument's form is crucial for efficient documentation and cataloguing. This paper presents a 3D digitisation workflow through the involvement of reality capture technologies for the annotation and structure analysis of built heritage with the use of 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (3D CNNs) for classification purposes. The presented workflow contributes a new approach to the identification of a building's architectural components (e.g., arch, dome) and to the study of the stylistic influences (e.g., Gothic, Byzantine) of building parts. In doing so this workflow can assist in tracking a building's history, identifying its construction period and comparing it to other buildings of the same period. This process can contribute to educational and research activities, as well as facilitate the automated classification of datasets in digital repositories for scholarly research in digital humanities.

Architecture and Culture (Taylor&Francis), 2019

Cities have always been arenas wherein social, ethnic and cultural differences lead to social fri... more Cities have always been arenas wherein social, ethnic and
cultural differences lead to social friction. People from various cultures
meet in spatial interfaces and this interaction, besides intensifying their
awareness of diversity, imposes the integration of existing and newly
brought cultural expressions with distinct socio-spatial and historical
references. This article reflects on the resilience of smart systems promoted today for user-personalization when interacting with, and in the
efficient operation of, city infrastructures. Specifically, the article
addresses the capacity of smart digital tools and participatory processes to stimulate city data interpretation, interoperability and sharing
processes as another commons of the city. The article foregrounds
user-driven co-creation methodologies and information and communications technologies tools that enable adaptive and flexible, cross-cultural, data interpretation by communities that appropriate public
spaces. Digital technologies can act as a catalyst for engaging people
with their urban environment and cultures, and therefore with
urban commons.

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, 19, 2, 2018

It has been observed that many researchers in the humanities do not use digital tools to their fu... more It has been observed that many researchers in the humanities do not use digital tools to their full extent for their research. Some of the most pressing needs of researchers in Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) are data storage and handling and large scale computing. Linking these researchers to experienced groups will significantly improve productivity and research innovation in DCH. This work presents our efforts in enabling virtual collaboration for research in the South East and Eastern Mediterranean region and more specifically the deployment of the Clowder CMS system and the development of extraction services to handle, manage and automatically process DCH data. We give technical descriptions of the system and provide some results and discussions of our efforts to enable virtual collaboration between regional level DCH researchers in the context of the Horizon 2020 funded VI-SEEM project.

Built Environment Technologies and Healthy Architectures, 2018

This article proposes a methodology for the cross-disciplinary study and analysis of complex urba... more This article proposes a methodology for the cross-disciplinary study and analysis of complex urban realities, such as the historic city of Nicosia, Cyprus, the last divided capital of Europe, with the use of advanced digital tools for the creation and development of real-time virtual environments for research and collaboration that explore the capacity of analysing data of users' behaviour in space. This research envisions contributing a fresh understanding of cultural and functional pressures in Nicosia's contested urban environment through the analysis of observational data. The objective of this research is development of a digital platform, which through immersion, interactive design and crowd simulation will enable the evaluation of alternative planning scenarios and design interventions in the context of the management plan of built heritage in open public spaces that used to be popular within the urban fabric of European cities but are now forgotten or in limbo due to political, economic, or social pressures.

HOUSING the FUTURE Alternative approaches for tomorrow, 2015

In Cyprus, contemporary affordable housing, mostly led by developers, promises an antidote to the... more In Cyprus, contemporary affordable housing, mostly led by developers, promises an antidote to the small spaces, small windows, lack of storage spaces, and the reduction of common spaces to a circulatory minimal found in most contemporary residential blocks in urban environments. In Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean region, housing blocks for low-income families, workers, and refugees1 have been criticised in the past as stark, dehumanizing, universal, sterile, and mechanistic, and were held responsible for many social problems, like social disintegration.

C. Busch, C. Kassung, J. Sieck (Hrsg). Kultur und Informatik: Hybrid Systems. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018

The paper offers theoretical considerations and reflects on technological solutions that contribu... more The paper offers theoretical considerations and reflects on technological solutions that contribute to digitally supported documentation, personalised access and reuse of localised heritage content in public spaces by means of user-engagement. The paper introduces an ecosystem (the Terpsichore Project) of tools and methods (platform) for enriching intangible cultural heritage with informal stories that could emerge and be communicated by drawing hyperlinks between digitised assets and not yet documented metadata. The aim of this research is to enable cultural heritage to be experienced in novel ways, supported by the proliferation of smartphones and ubiquitous Internet access together with new technical means for user profiling, personalisation, localisation, context-awareness and gamification. The research explores when and how information communication technologies (ICT) strategies and computation add significant value to heritage assets.

Architecture_media_politics_society. vol. 14, no. 3., 2018

Almost a century ago Modernism challenged the structure of the city and reshaped its physical spa... more Almost a century ago Modernism challenged the structure of the city and reshaped its physical space in order to, amongst other things, accommodate new transportation infrastructure and road networks proclaiming the nowadays much-debated ‘scientificated’ pursuit of efficiency for the city. This transformation has had a great impact on the way humans still design, move in, occupy and experience the city. Today major cities in Europe, such as Paris and London, are considering banning vehicles from their historic centers. In parallel, significant effort is currently underway internationally by designers, architects, and engineers to integrate innovative technologies and sophisticated solutions for energy production, management, and storage, as well as for efficient energy consumption, into the architecture of buildings. In general, this effort seeks for new technologies and design methods (e.g., DesignBuilder with EnergyPlus simulation engine; Rhicoceros3D with Grasshopper plugin and Ecotect, Radiance and EnergyPlus tools) that would enable a holistic approach to the spatial design of Near-Zero Energy buildings, so that their ecological benefits are an added value to the architectural design and a build- ing’s visual, and material, impact on its surrounding space. The paper inquires how the integration of such technological infrastructure and performance-ori- entated interfaces changes yet again the structure and form of cities, and to what extent it safeguards social rights and enables equal access to common resources. Drawing from preliminary results and initial considerations of ongoing research that involve the construction of four innovative NZE settlements across Europe, in the context of the EU-funded ZERO-PLUS project, this paper discusses the integration of novel infrastructure in communal spaces of these settlements. In doing so, it contributes to the debate about smart communities and their role in the sustainable management of housing developments and settlements that are designed and developed with the concept of smart territories.

Using ICT in the Management of Public Open Space as a Commons, 2019

The chapter defines public open space as a commons and explores innovative ways for its managemen... more The chapter defines public open space as a commons and explores innovative ways for its management and sustainable development through the use of new information and communication technologies. It argues that hybrid conglomerates of space and technological interfaces provide this possibility. Section 2 defines common pool resources and discusses issues of its manage- ment, before it moves to identify public open space as a commons and to outline key directives for governance. Section 3 outlines the new ICT and considers practices and technologies that can be used in order to enhance community identity, social interaction and user engagement in the governance of the public open space as a commons. Finally, the last section concludes this chapter with some remarks on the conditions under which the hybrid of a public open space with ICT features could be approached as yet another kind of ‘soft’ type of common pool resource.

This paper describes an experimental practice-based re-search project that considered design proc... more This paper describes an experimental practice-based re-search project that considered design process, implementation and construction of a pavilion built to be part of the Performative Space section of the International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague 2005. The project was conceptualized as a time-bound performative situation with a parasite-like relationship to its host environment. Its design has emerged through an innovative iterative process that utilized digital simulative and procedural techniques and was formed in response to place-specific behavioral challenges. This paper presents the project as an in-depth case-study of digital methods in design, mass customization and unified methods of production. In particular, it considers the use of Voronoi patterns for production of structural elements providing detail on programming and construction techniques in relationship to design aspirations and practical constraints.

Cite as: Artopoulos, Giorgos, Stanislav Roudavski and François Penz (2006). 'Adaptive Generative Patterns', in Proceedings of The Second International Conference of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2006), ed. by Jamal Al-Qawasmi and Zaki Mallasi (Sharjah: The Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD)), pp. 341-362

Based upon a completed practice-based research project, this paper presents information on the de... more Based upon a completed practice-based research project, this paper presents information on the design process and computational methods used to develop advanced adaptive geometries in relationship to behavioural goals, criteria and constraints. The paper highlights potential strengths of the approach, draws attention to foundational theoretical considerations and provides a basis for future work.

Cite as: Roudavski, Stanislav, Giorgos Artopoulos and François Penz (2006). 'Digital Design Techniques for Adaptable Systems: Prague Biennale Pavilion', in GameSetAndMatch II: The Architecture Co-Laboratory on Computer Games, Advanced Geometries and Digital Technologies, ed. by Kas Oosterhuis and Lukas Feireiss (Rotterdam: Episode Publishers), pp. 478-486

Hybrid Heritagescapes as Urban Commons in Mediterranean Cities: accessing the deep-rooted spatial interfaces of cities, 2018

This publication presents the discussions that took place during the International Training Schoo... more This publication presents the discussions that took place during the International Training School “Hybrid Heritagescapes as Urban Commons in Mediterranean Cities: accessing the deep-rooted spatial interfaces of cities”, convened at The Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center of the Cyprus Institute, in Nicosia, co-organised by the Cost Action TU1306 “Fostering knowledge about the relationship between Information and Communication Technologies and Public Spaces supported by strategies to improve their use and attractiveness (CYBERPARKS)”, between 30 October and 3 November 2017. Seventeen graduates and five tutors from various disciplines, such as history, archaeology, architecture, landscape design, urban planning and computer science, from 10 European countries visited Nicosia, the last divided capital in Europe to explore how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and interactive narratives can contribute creative practices of using the built heritage of Mediterranean cities for the reactivation of neglected urban spaces through playful engagement and storytelling. The Training School was aligned with the long-lasting research interest of the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center of the Cyprus Institute in the study of Mediterranean cities and the safeguard of the built heritage and cultural rights of the communities that inhabit the divided capital.

From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing: interactions of communities, residents and activists, 2017

Socio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic... more Socio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic crises, a notable rise of international migration and intensified trans-regional movement phenomena. Adopting this viewpoint, From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing maps the current terrain of political thinking, ethical conversations and community activism that complements the current discourse on new opportunities to access housing. Its carefully selected case studies cover many geographical contexts, including the UK, the US, Brazil, Australia, Asia and Europe. Importantly, the volume presents the views of stakeholders that are typically left unaccounted for in the process of housing development, and presents them with an interdisciplinary audience of sociologists, planners and architects in mind. Each chapter offers new interpretations of real-world problems, local community initiatives and successful housing projects, and together construct a critique on recent governmental and planning policies globally. Through these studies, the reader will encounter a narrative that encompasses issues of equality for housing, the biopolitics of dwelling and its associated activism, planning initiatives for social sustainability, and the cohabitation of the urban terrain.

POWER AND SPACE CONFERENCE, 2007

Conference Book of Abstracts Department of Architecture University of Cambridge