Social Practices and City Spaces

Kyriaki Tsoukala is Professor Emerita at the School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She received the title of doctorate of Social Sciences, as well as the title of doctorate of Urban Geography from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and also holds the title of Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the University of Paris X-Nanterre in the Organisation of Space. Tsoukala has published numerous articles in scientific and architectural journals and books in Greece, France and the United Kingdom. Key topics of focus include: the link between architecture and the human sciences and philosophy; places of the upbringing of children and youth; the affiliation between the child-urban spaces; and the theories of Socio-Psychology of Space. She has written the following books: Trends in School Architecture-From the child centered functionality to the postmodern approach (1997, Thessaloniki/Paratiritis, in Greek), L’image de la ville chez l’enfant (2001, Paris/Anthropos-Economica), Les territoires urbains de l’enfant (2007, Paris/L’Harmattan), Child urban territories, Architecture and mental representations (2005, Athens/Gutenerg, in Greek), Urbanisation and Identity (2009, Thessaloniki/Epikentro, in Greek), Fluid Space and Reflective Counterpoints on Education (2015, Thessaloniki/Epikentro, in Greek), Fluid Space and Transformational Learning (2017, London/Routledge) and Body and Architecture (2023, Thessaloniki/Epikentro, in Greek).

Part 1: Timeless connections between society and builtscape 1. Public ethics and moral significance of landscape: Political correlations, bodily emancipation and neoteric bourgeois identity 2. Letters: 1519, 1796, 2020 - The architect's public discourse 3. The three-dimensional ethos Part 2: Contemporary interweavings: Participatory social practices and inhabited space 4. Revisiting the practices and ethics of participatory design: Learning from contemporary Latin American examples 5. Co-design in real time: Research and design in Brussels and Valparaiso 6. Place-making from the Urban Palimpsest 7. Architectural toolbar and art of dwelling: Antagonistic antinomies of a spatial ethos 8. Spatial plots: Three epistemological models Part 3: Contemporary interweavings: Socio-environmental inclusive approaches to inhabited space 9. Acting and spatial framing: Towards a political topology of the terrestrial 10. Space, biopolitics and democracy 11. Eco-phenomenology and environmental ethics: Observations on topos with reference to Stalker by Andrey Tarkovsky 12. Technospatial entanglements of infrastructural bio-/politics 13. Interwoven lines of cultural expressions 14. ‘Posthuman’ architecture: Contemporary approaches of the human, technology, and nature within the built environment