Cityleft brings together the City and Copyleft concepts.
Founded in 2005 to disseminate the activities of a PhD in urban and
regional planning at University of Catania, today Cityleft showcases projects and research investigations
conceived and delivered mainly by Agatino Rizzo in collaboration with a network of researchers, students, public institutions, and professional practices.
Cityleft literally means open source, P2P urbanism,
a concept developed in 2009 by a group of urban thinkers which included
Agatino Rizzo. In 2015, Agatino Rizzo together with M Galanakis
departed from P2P thinking to focus on the performative aspects of
activism and the relationship between this latter and the complexity
science of cities and socio-spatial approach. In this endeavor they
developed a new methodological framework called Transdisciplinary Urbanism.