About
CULTURES OF ASSEMBLY, a project by the Chair of the City of Esch, is currently developing a crossover format that consists of a digital platform alongside a pop-up neighbourhood agency in the centre of Esch-sur-Alzette. Our physical space and its virtual communication tool aim to generate productive dialogues between urban pasts, presents, and futures, and the various publics and individuals who claim and produce them.
Our projects promote public negotiation through unconventional formats and research, aiming to generate spaces of encounter and enable CULTURES OF ASSEMBLY.
As urban researchers, we are interested to critically discuss and mobilise collective imaginary to inform future processes of urban regeneration in Esch, shifting from a European center for steel production towards a more just and pluralist urban space — politically, economically, culturally, and environmentally. In this process, we work and collaborate with an extensive group of internationally renowned experts, researchers, and practitioners from various fields and backgrounds.
Team:
MARKUS MIESSEN is Professor of Urban Regeneration at the University of Luxembourg. His work revolves around questions of critical spatial practice, institution building, and spatial politics.
CÉSAR REYES NÁJERA is a postdoctoral researcher in Urban Regeneration at the University of Luxembourg. His work explores urban social dynamics and degrowth strategies to critically update the notion of sustainable development.
ENA KUKIĆ is a postdoctoral researcher in Urban Regeneration at the University of Luxembourg. Her work traces how spaces hold and generate collective memory and shared experience.
GUSTAV KJÆR VAD NIELSEN is a doctoral research in Geography at the University of Luxembourg. His work inquires on practices of radical making with ambiguous terrains as possibility for respons-able democratic futures-to-come.
KRISTINA SHATOKHINA is a doctoral researcher in Architecture at the University of Luxembourg. Her work explores material-semiotic dimensions of the abject, abnormal, and unruly, bridging cultural history and feminist theory.