(Un)Planning Invisibility: Devices of Exclusion and Measures of Care in the Contemporary City

Contemporary cities reproduce forms of micro-exclusion through hostile architecture and regulatory measures that restrict the presence of marginalized bodies in public space. By materializing dominant imaginaries of decorum, security, and productivity, these mechanisms determine who is allowed to inhabit the city. Through critical urbanism, surveillance studies, and artistic and activist practices, the analysis explores how excluded communities challenge these norms through spatial reappropriation and micro-interventions. It proposes plural body measures as a design methodology and political vision that replaces normative standards with collective negotiation, transforming architecture into a practice of recognition, care, and shared urban belonging.