About Charalampos Tsavdaroglou

Charalampos Tsavdaroglou is a scholar in critical urban studies and his work specializes in migrants’ urban and housing commons, mobile commons, refugee camps, and the newcomers’ right to the city. He is currently Post-doctoral researcher in the Swedish Research Council program: “Housing as a Digitalized Service” at the University of Amsterdam. Haris received his PhD (2016) in Urban and Regional Planning, from the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During the academic years 2017-2025 he was the Principal Investigator in the HFRI research program: “Refugees’ Solidarity City. Institutional Policies and Commoning Practices in Athens, Mytilene and Thessaloniki” (RECITY) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, post-doctoral researcher in the Horizon 2021-2027 program: “Prototypes for Addressing the Housing-Energy-Nexus” (PREFIGURE) at the University of Amsterdam, post-doctoral researcher in the Horizon H2020 program: “Arrival Infrastructures as Sites of Integration for Recent Newcomers” (ReROOT) at the University of Thessaly, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, visiting fellow at the Urban Studies Institute, University of Antwerp and post- doctoral researcher at the University of Thessaly, the University of the Aegean and the National Hellenic Research Foundation. His research interests include critical urban theory, the autonomy of migration, intersectional, decolonial and affective geographies, the right to the city, urban atmospheres, common spaces versus spatial enclosures and urban social movements.