Pluralism versus Populism: Liberalism, fascism and their converging spatial logics
Pluralism versus Populism: Liberalism, fascism and their converging spatial logics
Website
Antifascist Theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room – Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics – Places in Europe
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design Research Studio
Cities by Design
Pluralism versus Populism: Liberalism, fascism and their converging spatial logics
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism – Urbanism – Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Website
Antifascist Theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room – Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics – Places in Europe
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design Research Studio
Cities by Design
Pluralism versus Populism: Liberalism, fascism and their converging spatial logics
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism – Urbanism – Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Website
Antifascist Theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room – Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics – Places in Europe
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design Research Studio
Cities by Design
Pluralism versus Populism: Liberalism, fascism and their converging spatial logics
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism – Urbanism – Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Website
Antifascist Theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room – Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics – Places in Europe
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design Research Studio
Cities by Design
Pluralism versus Populism: Liberalism, fascism and their converging spatial logics
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism – Urbanism – Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
This contribution to the conference’s Final Roundtable explores relations between liberalism and fascism and their converging spatial logics. Drawing on research presented earlier that day, which examines deportation as a form of de-pluralisation, I explore integration-as-assimilation as a liberal process of de-pluralisation. I then identify parallels between fascist and liberal imaginaries of ‘the city’ as a spatial entity, referring to the Chicago School of Urban Ecology, Nazi ideas of the ‘organic city’ as developed by Gottfried Feder, and recent arguments for the 15-minute city.
Website
Antifascist Theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room – Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics – Places in Europe
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design Research Studio
Cities by Design
Pluralism versus Populism: Liberalism, fascism and their converging spatial logics
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism – Urbanism – Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Website
Antifascist Theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room – Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics – Places in Europe
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design Research Studio
Cities by Design
Pluralism versus Populism: Liberalism, fascism and their converging spatial logics
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism – Urbanism – Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Date
15–16 October 2026
Language
English
Location
Technical University Berlin
Event
Conference – Contested Pluralities: Conflictive Practices, Politics and Spaces of De/Pluralization
Author
Günter Gassner
Keywords
Fascism
Racism
Queer
Antifascism
Spatial imaginaries