Articles, Book Chapters and Essays
Temporary Artwashing at the Construction Site: Curating Gentrification through Real Estate Marketing in Berlin (2026)
Claudia Seldin
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR), 50(1) (Wiley) – https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.70021
Keywords: Berlin; Digital marketing; Gentrification; Land speculation; Neoliberal urbanism; Street art; Tactical urbanism
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Temporary Spaces in Peripheral Urban Areas: Building Situated Knowledge, Not Best Practices (2025)
Claudia Seldin & Caio Barros
Getting Political in the Neoliberal City: Planning and Design for Social and Environmental Justice, 116-130 (Routledge)- https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003015833-8
Keywords: Best practices; Insurgent planning; Neoliberal urbanism; Realengo; Resistance; Rio de Janeiro; Tactical urbanism; Temporary spaces
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(In)Subordinate Planning: A Decolonial Tool for Marginalized Urban Areas (2024)
Claudia Seldin
Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, 24 (Open Edition Journals) – https://doi.org/10.4000/nuevomundo.95315
Keywords: Decolonial theory; Favelas; Insubordinate planning; Insurgent urbanism; Rio de Janeiro; Resistance; Temporary urbanism; Urban park; Vidigal
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Book review: Subaltern Geographies (2022)
Claudia Seldin
Urban Studies, 59(13), 2821-2823 (Sage) – https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221079248
Keywords: Decolonization of knowledge production; Geography; Global South; India; Subaltern studies
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Understanding Bottom-Up Territories of Culture in Unequal Cities (2023)
Claudia Seldin, Caio Barros, Pedro Ribeiro & Victoria Michelini
Debats. Journal on Culture, Power and Society, annual review 8 (Centre Valencià d’Estudis i d’Investigació)- https://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats-137-1.1
Keywords: Contested territories; Cultural territories; Decolonial theory; Flyover; Inequality; Latin America; Realengo; Rio de Janeiro; Temporary urbanism
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The Challenges for Cultural Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Collaborative spaces & Temporary Uses in Berlin (2022)
Claudia Seldin
Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! DIY Cultures and Global Challenges, v. 5 320-330 (Universidade do Porto) – https://doi.org/10.21747/9789898969415/kee
Keywords: Berlin, COVID-19 pandemic; Collaborative planning; Digital events; Temporary spaces; ZK/U; Zwischennutzung
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Book review: Agonistic Articulations in the ‘Creative’ City (2021)
Claudia Seldin
International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(6), 845-848 (Taylor & Francis) – https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1949005
Keywords: Artists; Berlin; Collectives; Creative city; Creative class; Koalition der freien Szene; Networks
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Peripheral Creativity: Temporary Cultural Uses as Alternatives to Inefficient Policies? (2020)
Claudia Seldin, Caio Barros, Pedro Ribeiro & Thomas Gavinho
International Journal of Cultural Policy, 26(7), 771-790 (Taylor & Francis) – https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1811246
Keywords: Creative policies; Cultural planning; Latin America; Inequalities; Rio de Janeiro; Tactical urbanism; Taquara; Temporary urbanism
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The Voices of Berlin: Busking in a Creative City (2020)
Claudia Seldin
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 12(2), 233-255 (Linköping University Electronic Press) – https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.20200609a
Keywords: Berlin; Buskers; Creative policies; Resistance; Street performance; Temporary use
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Housing in ‘Intramural Favelas’: Considerations on New Forms of Urban Expansion in Contemporary Times (2018)
Claudia Seldin & Juliana Canedo
CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios, 37, 16-32 (DINÂMIA’CET-ISCTE) – http://dx.doi.org/10.15847/citiescommunitiesterritories.dec2018.037.art02
Keywords: Deindustrialization; Favelas; Informal settlement; Housing; Maré; Occupation; Rio de Janeiro
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The New ‘Periphery Cinema’ of Rio de Janeiro – Comprehending the City through Art (2018)
Claudia Seldin, Raquel Martins & Rosa Rocha
Urban Artscapes: Essays on Political and Cultural Contexts, 101-133 (McFarland)
Keywords: Cinema; Favela cinema; Film festivals; Rio de Janeiro; Periphery cinema; Representation; Rio de Janeiro; Urban cinema; Vila Kennedy
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From the Precarious to the Hybrid: The Case of the Maré Complex in Rio de Janeiro (2016)
Lilian Fessler Vaz & Claudia Seldin
Precarious Spaces: The Arts, Social and Organizational Change, 37-59 (Intellect)
Keywords: Capoeira; Favela; Favela museum; Maré; Maré Centre for Popular Arts and Culture; Opaque spaces; Rio de Janeiro
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Cultural Practices as Urban Insurgencies: The Case of the Kunsthaus Tacheles ‘Squat’ in Berlin (2015)
Claudia Seldin
Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (RBEUR), 17(3) (ANPUR) – https://doi.org/10.22296/2317-1529.2015v17n3p68
Keywords: Berlin; Creative city; Cultural urban planning; Resistance; Squat; Zwischennutzung
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The Creative Shift – Considerations on the 21st Century Approach to Cultural Urban Planning: The Case of Berlin (2014)
Claudia Seldin
InterArtive – A Platform for Contemporary Art and Thought, 65 – https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14822637
Keywords: Berlin; Creative city; Creative class; Cultural planning; Gentrification; MediaSpree; Richard Florida; Strategic planning
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