agaTino RIZZO (read more)

Anders SIMONSEN (read more)

Egzon BAJRAKTARI (read more)

Michail GALANAKIS (read more)

Michel BAUWENS  (read more)

Eric HUNTING  (read more)

Luigi PRESTINENZA PUGLISI (read more)

Reinhard MICHELLER (read more)

riCardo SANTACRUZ (read more)

Tom JONSSON (read more)

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (read more)

Bauhaus Weimar University (read more)

DAU - University of Catania (read more)

P2P Foundation  (read more)

YTK - Helsinki University of Technology (read more)

Cityleft is a network of people working in/and for urban issues.

Funded in 2005, after having incubated the activities of the PhD in urban and regional planning established at University of Catania, Cityleft is now an independent platform collaborating with a plenty of institutions across Europe.

We do urban studies, planning, architecture, Urban Art Interventions, theoretical research, visual investigations, and media art.

The people working in Cityleft believe in Open Source knowledge and transdisciplinarity as way of life. Therefore our projects involve stakeholders, experts, and region makers in the making of the knowledge.

Despite our work regards mainly heavily urbanized spaces, we conceive the city as part of a bigger system which is part real and part virtual.

The real one is the territory, which is a combination of landscape + economic dynamics. It is the system environment-culture-economic which regards cities, metropolitan areas (fast territories), slow territories, and countryside (long territories).

The virtual one is instead a gigantic (global) network running throughout the richest part of the planet and in developing countries too. This latter system is today playing a crucial role in shaping new social behaviors (P2P).

Therefore, Cityleft works for a convergence, between virtual and real world, capable to generate important energies to re-structure theory, practice, and social rules.

contacts:

                cityleft (at) altervista (dot) org

                cityleft (at) gmail (dot) com

                Cityleft on Issuu (link)

                Cityleft on facebook (link)

                Cityleft on twitter (link)

                Cityleft on Ning (link)

                Cityleft on P2P Foundation (link)