The Emergent Agency of the Urban

“The ‘open’ architectural ‘education’ structure of SARCHA, 

succeeded in pointing out 

the Emergent Agency of the Urban 

through its research programmes and projects in the crisis ridden Athens:  

Not an abstract container that accommodates conflicts and contradictions, the urban functions as an apparatus, a material device by which the recombination of human, non-human, technical, technological, organic, inorganic matter and matters produces new assemblages that continually reshape empirically and theoretically the conceptualization and understanding of our categorizations.” 

Concluding remarks by SARCHA’s speaker Dr Maria Theodorou 

in the “Athens Radical Futures?” Symposium

 organized by Penny Travlou and Tahl Kaminer and supported by the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape architecture (ESALA) and the Global Justice Academy, University of Edinburgh, 20.11.2014 http://www.sarcha-architecture.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/athens-radical-futures-symposium-sarcha.html