Article / Squatting and direct care for urban space: the case of the Participatory Ljubljana Autonomous Zone (PLAC)

Article by Sandi Abram ‘Squatting and direct care for urban space: the case of the Participatory Ljubljana Autonomous Zone (PLAC)‘ in Traditiones.

The article deals with the question of how the squatting community understands and implements direct care for urban space in the context of gentrification and elitization of the city. Using the example of the Participatory Ljubljana Autonomous Zone (PLAC), the squatted territory of a former workers’ canteen, the text thematises the localisation of care in, through and for the landscape as an experience of solidarity and relations in the everyday material life of people and non-people, encompassing relational, spatial and political dimensions of care.