In light of the current crises in liberal democracies around the world, the conference probes the complicated relationship between architecture and democracy during the 1965-1989 period. At what intersections was architecture able to propose a new, if precarious, balance between planning and citizens' empowerment? How did this impact the disciplinary institutions of architecture and its epistemologies? And perhaps more speculatively, where do these shifting conditions leave architecture today, considering questions of democratic values, a ruthless market logic that penetrates all sectors of society, and a divisive populism dominating the public debate? Ideologies and Politics : Ambiguities and contestations in and of the welfare state - From Le Droit à la Ville to Rechte Räume. Legacies and legends of the Movement for the Reconstruction of the European City Isabelle Doucet (Chalmers University of Technology), Janina Gosseye (ETH Zurich) and Anne Kockelkorn (ETH Zurich) - Political Postmodernism. Architecture and democracy in Chile, 1975-1990 Lidia Klein (University of North Carolina) - Seeking to Salvage Italian Democracy. Architectural inflections of political compromise at the Estate romana, 1977-1985 Manuel López Segura (Harvard University) - From Harlem to New Haven. The emergence of the advocacy planning movement in the late 1960s Marianna Charitonidou (ETH Zurich) Community Actions : Protest, negotiations and lived experience From Vision to Reality. - Emile Aillaud's untenable arrangements at Cité de l'Abreuvoir and Cité Aillaud Pari Riahi (University of Massachussetts Amherst) - An Epic Silent Film. Alexandra Road and the shifting grounds of welfare state housing in Britain Tom Davies (Oslo School of Architecture and Design) and Luis Diaz (University of Brighton) - Sticky Architecture. Relating to Niagara Falls, New York Monica Hutton (University of Toronto) - Design by Direct Democracy. Citizens as architects of urban renewal in Amsterdam Aimée Albers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) New Forms of Citizenship : Emancipation, participation and representation. - Exploding School. Planning, Participation and the Bulletin of Environmental Education Tim Ivison (ArtCenter/SCI-Arc) - Architects' and Citizens' Empowerment. Dutch architectural periodicals on 'participation' and 'participation', 1959-1979 Elke Bruns and Dirk van de Vijver (Utrecht University) - Kirsti Nordin and Association 9. Feminist architectural practice and the turning point of the welfare state in Finland Hanna Tyvelä (Tampere University) - 'To Give Voice to What Has Heretofore Been Silent'. The 'Third Zone' and the crisis of representation in Ivry-sur-Seine's city center urban renewal, 1962-1986 Vanessa Grossman (ETH Zurich) Welfare state conditions : from biopolitics and economy to housing regulation. - The Health of Democracyn : Coop Himmelblau's Entspannungsarchitektur and the expansion of the Austrian welfare state, 1970-77 Victoria Bugge Øye (Princeton University) - Notes on a Vanishing Act. Taxation, democracy, and architecture in U.S. housing between 1965 and 1989 Susanne Schindler (MIT, ETH Zurich) - Council Housing in the Age of Property-Owning Democracy and the Parker Morris Standards, 1960s-80s Savia Palate (University of Cambridge) - The Hurray-mood of Wirtschaftswunder-culture. Constant, integration, and the League of New Images Bart-Jan Polman (Princeton University) City Planning and Urban Renewal : Between commercialisation and de-colonisation. - Brazilian Modernist Bus Terminal Stations. Desires for public architecture from Brasília to re-democratization Diogo Mondini Pereira (University of São Paulo, FAPESP) - 1977 Kars Plan. Planning for a conflicted city in Eastern Turkey Neşe Gurallar (Gazi University) - CastleCourt. The shopping center as an imposed symbol of civic normality Agustina Martire, Thomas McConaghie (Queen's University Belfast) - A Tale of Two Urban Futures. Dutch city centers in the age of affluence, 1960-1980 Tim Verlaan (University of Amsterdam)