DISAPPEARING URBAN Seminar
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DISAPPEARING URBAN Seminar
Monday 8 June 2026, 15:30–19:00
Free entry with registration
Seminar in English
The 'Disappearing Urban' Seminar, organised by Andrea Pavoni (DINAMIA’CET-IUL), Salomé Honório (CECOMP-FLUL) e/and CADA, will take place on 8 June 2026 at Palácio Sinel de Cordes, Lisboa.
In an age of rising seas, extreme weather, and high-tech war, the finiteness of cities, and of the collective life they harbour, demands serious attention. Cities are not just built environments, however. Disappearance, in them, is not only physical, but a subtle and ongoing process of dissipation which takes place as their streets and façades remain intact. Under the effects of gentrification, touristification, financialisation, securitisation, the urban as experience, a collective relation, and an aesthetic form seems to be ceaselessly disappearing.
This seminar interrogates our relation to that disappearance – not as a completed fact, but as an ongoing condition: the vanishing of the past (traditions, places, communities, solidarities) and the dissipation of the futures that never came to fruition, through sound, cinema and literature.
The event will feature presentations by Alberto Vanolo (University of Turin), Bartholomew Ryan (IFILNOVA, Lisbon), and Ian Capillé (IFILNOVA, Lisbon), followed by a roundtable discussion with Pedro Neto (ICS, Lisbon), pê feijó (independent writer), the seminar speakers and organisers.
More info, registration and programme here.