Mapping critical spatial practice as an agent of radical imagination within contexts of urban conflict

本研究旨在探讨空间生产，特别是批判性空间实践，在全球南北城市冲突的背景下作为激进想象的代理人的作用。这一重点与CDD路径的范围一致，因为它探讨了上述实践如何在一个以争议和危机为标志的时期，驾驭和改变不同的权力结构，支持城市的民主发展和公民社会在城市领域的主张、设计、管理和居住过程中的积极参与。该项目还通过“激进想象”的镜头重新定义了冲突的概念，将其转化为一种积极的动力，是危机时期所需的激进变革的温床，也是生产民主的基本力量。此外，该项目还认识到批判性空间实践作为社会运动催化剂的作用，通过其不断努力重新想象社会，同时在现有机构内发挥作用。对这种做法的广泛分析可能会对空间生产在创造性地解决冲突和城市领域的民主发展方面的作用提供见解

The proposed research explores the role of spatial production, and specifically Critical Spatial Practice, as an agent of radical imagination in contexts of urban conflict in both the global North and South. This focus aligns with the scope of the CDD pathway, as it explores how the mentioned practices, in a period marked by contestation and crisis, navigate and transform different structures of power, supporting the democratic development of cities and active engagement of civil society in the processes of claiming, designing, managing, and inhabiting the urban realm. The project also reframes the notion of conflict through the lens of 'radical imagination', turning it into a positive dynamic, a breeding ground for the radical change needed in times of crises, but also a fundamental force for the production of democracy. Moreover, the project recognises also the role of Critical Spatial practice as a catalyst for social movement, through its continuous effort to re-imagine society whilst acting within the present institutions. An extensive analysis of such practices could potentially provide insights on the role of spatial production in the creative resolution of conflicts and the democratic development of the urban realm