An Atlas of Future Hopes and Ideas – For European Slums

This is the second volume of a three-volume series reflecting the topics and projects developed within studio díazmoreno garcíagrinda, directed by Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, between 2019–2024.

An Atlas of Future Hopes and Ideas – for European slums contains the work from the 2019/20 academic year on European slums, with a particular focus on the informal Roma settlements in Romania. A glossary of terms – a deliberately selected collection of words, expressions or concepts – has been gathered to reveal and make transparent the issues surrounding the numerous informal settlements that exist in Europe, veritable cesspools of poverty, exclusion and social violence. The ultimate intention of the publication is to allow these ideas, concepts and proposals to become part of the debates surrounding the possible future of these settlements and to be a seed of more ambitious policies that recognise the right to the city, and to the basic conditions of habitability for minorities and migrant groups who are forced to live in precarious spatial conditions.