Several people informed us that the link of our special issue in Leonardo Electronic Almanac from our research group on urban interfaces from 2019 (Leonardo Electronic Almanac issue 22, no. 4) is down. Thanks to the wonderful archive.org, we’ve managed to restore both the individual contributions (thanks Michiel!) as well as taken the effort (thanks…

This blogpost by Gustavo Rigon is part 4 of a four-part dossier on “Queer in the City”.  Leaning on each other: queer-feminist approaches to urban catastrophes Image: City-tent camp at Kahramanmaras stadium, Turkey. 2023. Photo: Reuters[1] Syrian people are doubled displaced, they are displaced from their home in Syria and they come to Turkey, and…

This blogpost by Gustavo Rigon is part 3 of a four-part dossier on “Queer in the City”.  Let’s go out? queer dancefloors and the “outside world” Image: Fun House Party in Amsterdam, 2014. “I dance alone” project[1] Clubbing culture has gained popularity within urban scenarios in the last decades, serving as a meeting point for…

This blogpost by Gustavo Rigon is part 2 of a four-part dossier on “Queer in the City”.  Queer temporalities in the urban landscape: challenging normative time structures Image: Pexels, “Man walking around”, 2024 In the urban, time seems hard to grasp, although perceived in multiple ways. Time is inscribed within cities rhythms, density, work culture,…

This blogpost by Gustavo Rigon is part 1 of a four-part dossier on “Queer in the City”.  Introduction Image: UCL, “Queering Urbanism: thinking climate change through queer time” lecture, 2023[1] Queer (being) in the city How can the city be observed through queer lenses? What bodies, subjectivities, epistemologies, and politics may we encounter from a…