Protests Beyond the Plaza: Where and How Dissent Happens in the City
Urban protests may occur in a single square, but the infrastructure that makes protests possible unfolds across the entire city — and beyond.Join us for a lecture and book talk by the two co-editors of the recently released book “Protests Beyond the Plaza: Everyday Spaces, Urban Morphologies, and Strategies” (Routledge, 2026) ”, exploring how public dissent operates today as a distributed phenomenon across urban and digital space through case studies from around the world. The talk will examine how protests emerge, spread, and interact with the infrastructure of the city.
Speakers:
Kateryna Malaia, PhD is an architectural historian and educator teaching at Kharkiv School of Architecture and the University of Utah. She researches ordinary architectures, particularly housing, under pressure and in times of change. Her books include Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room (2023) and Mass Housing in Ukraine (2024, with Philipp Meuser). Dr. Malaia was recently awarded the 2026 IAWA Kristine Fallon Prize for her manuscript “Missing Women: Ukrainian Architects of the 1930s
Nathan Mark Hutson, PhD is an urban planner and Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Postwar Reconstruction at the Kyiv School of Economics. He also teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, is a fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and an active member of the Ro3kvit Coalition and the American Planning Association’s Ukraine Rebuilding Action Group.
The lecture will be moderated by Lilet Breddels, Project Manager at Ro3kvit.