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How has the Right weaponised space as a tool of class struggle? What should a counter strategy from the Left look like? This session considers the centrality of urban space to capitalist development, its links to imperialism, and explores the forms of resistance open to us, aiming to bring together tenant and neighbourhood struggles into an expansive discussion of the right to the city.
Raquel Rolnik is a former UN Special Rappourter on the Right to Adequate Housing, a Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo and author of 'Urban Warfare: Housing and Cities in the Age of Finance (Verso 2018)'.
is a journalist, and the author of books including Militant Modernism and, most recently, The Alienation Effect
Catalina Ortiz is an Associate Professor of The Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London and the Chair of the Wards Corner Community Benefit Society, Tottenham.
Ben is a founding member of Unit 38, an architecture practice focused on supporting social movements, and a Director of Pelican House - a social centre in London. Ben is on the Festival Organising Committee for TWT25.
Isaac works for the Greater Manchester Tenants Union and is the author of The Rentier City (Repeater, 2024). Isaac is on the Festival Organising Committee for TWT25.
