This fifth session of Fairville’s Dialogues in Co-production takes place during the 3rd Conference on Participatory Design, themed Spatial Justice in the Era of Climate Crisis. Geographies & Communities of Greece, the Balkans and the Mediterranean.

The dialogue focuses on the right to visibility as a key condition for advancing environmental justice through recognition and political participation. Environmental inequalities are often rendered invisible, whether through dominant housing and development narratives or through the repression of grassroots activism. Bringing together activists and researchers from the Fairville Labs in Giza, Dakar, Marseille and Athens, the session explores how co-production can make these struggles more visible.
 
Building on earlier Dialogues in Co-production, this in-person hybrid exchange foregrounds case-based experiences and collective reflections on visibility, solidarity and mobilisation. Participants will share strategies for sustaining co-produced practices under conditions of social exclusion, environmental degradation and political repression, and for identifying pathways for mutual support across cities.
 
Chair: Alessio Kolioulis (Associate Professor in Urban Economic Development, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London)
 
Discussant: Soraya Boudia (Professor of Sociology, Université Paris Cité; member of Cermes3 – CNRS, Inserm, EHESS, Université Paris Cité)
 
With inputs and comments from:

• Kawkab Tawfik (Research Associate, Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale and Centre d’Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales, Cairo – Giza Fairville Lab)

• Paloma Anger (North South Consultants Exchange – Giza Fairville Lab)

• Ahmed Zazaa (Urban designer and researcher; co-founder of 10 Tooba research group – Giza Fairville Lab) 

• Hélène Froment (Un Centre-Ville pour Tous / Collectif des Habitante·s Organisé·e·s du 3ème – Marseille Fairville Lab) 

• Agnès Deboulet (Professor of Sociology, Université Paris 8; researcher at LAVUE/CNRS – Marseille Fairville Lab) 

• Ismaila Seye (Mapping and Data Collection Unit, NGO UrbaSEN – Dakar Fairville Lab)

• Giorgos Velegrakis (Affiliated Lecturer, University of Crete; Commonspace – West Attica Fairville Lab)

• Artemis Koumparelou (Commonspace – West Attica Fairville Lab)

• Seema Manchanda (Director, Co Produce It CIC; Chair of Deptford X; Chair of Action for Race Equality – London Fairville Lab)

• Agnieszka Rolkiewicz (Director, Co Produce It CIC; cultural animator and applied theatre practitioner – London Fairville Lab)

• Saif Osmani (Director, Co Produce It CIC; interdisciplinary creative practitioner specialising in architectural design and fine arts – London Fairville Lab)

 
Languages: Greek / English
 
Organisation: Alessio Kolioulis (DPU – University College London), Barbara Lipietz (DPU – University College London), Agnès Deboulet (Université Paris 8 / LAVUE CNRS), Philippe Urvoy (LAVUE / Université Paris 8 – CNRS).