Wednesday, March 18th, we welcome Belgian philosopher, art historian, writer and lifelong activist Lieven De Cauter to the Sofa. Not only is he well known for his work on—among others—activism and the commons in the city, but it was also from his and Gideon Boie’s class at this faculty that the Sofa Talks originated.
We will discuss De Cauter’s and Boie’s upcoming book The Activist City, and reflect on the role activism and new forms of engagement and resistance play—and could play—in a contemporary urban context. This also raises the question of what an activist pedagogy might be, and how emancipative and festive forms of communing shape, and will continue to shape, our common spaces.
Through his work, we might better understand activism as a political act of making the invisible visible and ensuring that voices are heard.
Everyone is welcome to join!
When? Wednesday, March 18th at 18:30
Where? At the bar, Paleizenstraat 65, 1030 Brussels