Kristen Kreider is Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK.James O’Leary is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations IntroductionUngovernable Spaces: Situating PracticeUngovernability and the Poetics of Resistance 1. GridBeneath the Grid, the Root: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Overlay of Chicago’s South Side2. CharkhaGandhi’s Salt March, Daily Practice of Spinning and Intermittent Fasts: An Ethics of Resistance in Three Acts3. ConstellationPoetry, Architecture, and the Making of Ciudad Abierta: Imagination and Transformation in Ritoque, Chile4. ClusterTurbulent Politics and Emergent Ecologies: A Stratigraphy of the ‘Peace Walls’ of Belfast, Northern IrelandConclusion: Towards a New Poetics of ‘Us’: Lessons from the Edge of ‘Fortress Europe’NotesIndex

Theoretically sophisticated and formally experimental, Ungovernable Spaces delivers an intimate, embodied and up-close account on the different forms of community that can be enacted within and against the disaster of capitalism […] an essential guidebook for those of us similarly intent on finding the spaces and places where life might still be possible.

Kristen Kreider is Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK.James O’Leary is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations IntroductionUngovernable Spaces: Situating PracticeUngovernability and the Poetics of Resistance 1. GridBeneath the Grid, the Root: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Overlay of Chicago’s South Side2. CharkhaGandhi’s Salt March, Daily Practice of Spinning and Intermittent Fasts: An Ethics of Resistance in Three Acts3. ConstellationPoetry, Architecture, and the Making of Ciudad Abierta: Imagination and Transformation in Ritoque, Chile4. ClusterTurbulent Politics and Emergent Ecologies: A Stratigraphy of the ‘Peace Walls’ of Belfast, Northern IrelandConclusion: Towards a New Poetics of ‘Us’: Lessons from the Edge of ‘Fortress Europe’NotesIndex

Theoretically sophisticated and formally experimental, Ungovernable Spaces delivers an intimate, embodied and up-close account on the different forms of community that can be enacted within and against the disaster of capitalism […] an essential guidebook for those of us similarly intent on finding the spaces and places where life might still be possible.

Kristen Kreider is Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK.James O’Leary is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations IntroductionUngovernable Spaces: Situating PracticeUngovernability and the Poetics of Resistance 1. GridBeneath the Grid, the Root: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Overlay of Chicago’s South Side2. CharkhaGandhi’s Salt March, Daily Practice of Spinning and Intermittent Fasts: An Ethics of Resistance in Three Acts3. ConstellationPoetry, Architecture, and the Making of Ciudad Abierta: Imagination and Transformation in Ritoque, Chile4. ClusterTurbulent Politics and Emergent Ecologies: A Stratigraphy of the ‘Peace Walls’ of Belfast, Northern IrelandConclusion: Towards a New Poetics of ‘Us’: Lessons from the Edge of ‘Fortress Europe’NotesIndex

Theoretically sophisticated and formally experimental, Ungovernable Spaces delivers an intimate, embodied and up-close account on the different forms of community that can be enacted within and against the disaster of capitalism […] an essential guidebook for those of us similarly intent on finding the spaces and places where life might still be possible.