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The urban dilemma in a glass of beer (copyright: Turbinen Bräu)

What is the link between half a glass of the swiss Turbinen Bräu, Henri Lefebvre’s concept of diverted space and the contemporary fuzz about temporary, creative spaces? As part of research projects at Roskilde University and Technical University of Denmark, Supertanker unfolded their thoughts on the potentials and perils of urban vague spaces at the conference ‘Beyond Lefebvre‘ at ETH in Zürich on the French urban philosopher.

The common denominators between the discourse on creative cities and the critique of neoliberal urbanisation was discussed with the anglo-belgian ‘prophessor’ of urban politics Eric Swyngedouw and the finnish professor of ‘weak places’ and architecture, Panu Lehtovuori, among others. One important conclusion is that while the perils are staring us in the face, we have only scratched the surface of the urban potentials of vague spaces.