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Joshua Grisby: ROG support letter

24 May 2016
Expert opinions and criticisms
Joshua Grigsby

Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography, and Astronomy

Institute for Geography and Regional Research

Universitätsstraße 7, D519
1010 Vienna, Austria

Joshua Grigsby, MSc.
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24 May 2016, Vienna

 

  To whom it may concern,

 my name is Joshua Grigsby. I am the assistant programme coordinator for the 4CITIES Erasmus  Mundus Master Course in Urban Studies and a lecturer at the University of Vienna. One of my  responsibilities is to develop the itinerary for an annual university excursion to Ljubljana,  Zagreb, and Belgrade. This year we visited Tovarna Rog in Ljubljana, which proved to be one of  the highlights of the entire trip.

  Sociologist and urban planner Richard Sennett, borrowing from Jane Jacobs, distinguishes  between open cities and brittle cities. The former embrace flexibility and open systems, while  the latter are characterised by closed systems and over-determination. Open systems recognise  the value of “in-between” spaces of democratic “becoming.” These are the places, like Tovarna  Rog, where residents become active citizens instead of passive consumers, where new  approaches to urban issues can be experimented with, where new narratives of urbanistic and  cultural development emerge. Open cities are dynamic, resilient, they endure. Brittle cities die.  Cities are complex adaptive systems that require openness and a wide spectrum of possibilities  in order to thrive. Alternative social centers like Tovarna Rog are not a threat to the  establishment; on the contrary, they support vibrant urbanity precisely by providing alternative  opportunities, perspectives, and approaches. Cities, if they are allowed to function properly, are  defined more by diversity than similarity. There is no surer way to kill a city than to stamp out  “alternative” cultural spaces. As Ljubljana continues to transform itself, it should be careful not  to become overdetermined, homogeneous, and brittle. The city would be wise to not only  allow places like Rog to exist but to collaborate with them as partners and value them as the  assets they are. Without such initiatives, Ljubljana would be a lesser city.

 

  Sincerely,  Joshua Grigsby, MSc.  

 

 

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