The Universal Declaration of Urban Rights looks toward the articulation of a new urban agenda based on democratically generated local ideas and experiences.

The starting point of this project is the construction of an open archive with the standpoint of diverse urban beings. By invoking the “Right to the City”, the aim is to expand the scope of debate in the public sphere composing an always updatable Urban Chart, a non-fixed manifest made by infinite inputs, where everyone is invited, in clear contraposition to the “Athens Chart” made by a few experts with profound impact in billions of citizens around the world for nearly 100 years now.

The current edition is inspired by the idea of the “parliament,” as public infrastructure to gather and connect local and situated knowledge to compose The European Parliament of Urban Rights. 

Editions

Since 2011, Zuloark has executed a variety of editions with diverse approaches to the main goal: the UR_Archive, where we publish interviews with inhabitants about their hopes and expectations for their territories and visualizing standpoints; building UR_Parliaments as physical and methodological infrastructure built through open workshops where those who are not often represented in contemporary urban debates can come to contribute their knowledge, concerns, aspirations, and ideas for their neighbourhoods and cities, and using the UR_Methodology to discuss controversies.

Voices

The UR_Archive is the ordered collection of individual voices on the Urban Rights Declaration.

Who is behind

The Universal Declaration of Urban Rights (UDUR) is a pro bono project developed by Zuloark with a broad network of collaborators.

Join us!

Since 2011 the Universal Declaration of Urban Rights has generated a broad and diverse network of collaborators through UR_Embassadors, UR_Observers and UR_Supporters.

Do you want to be part of this UR_Net?