Cover Image: Rhythm 0, performance, from Marina Abramovic’s contribution on page 82. Location: Studio Morra Naples, 1974, Photo: Donatelli Sbarra. image © Marina Abramovic. Image is courtesy of the Marina Abramovic Archives.

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In order to avoid participation in architecture and urban design becoming merely a politically required token of democratic involvement - a kind of fake participation that does not actually engage the participants in any meaningful way - architects, planners, and designers need to commit themselves and relinquish control, as Jeremy Till claims in an interview with us entitled "Distributing Power". With this new issue of MONU on the topic of "Participatory Urbanism", the magazine aims to find out and reassess to what extent individual citizens really can and should become proactive in the production and development of cities and in the shaping of neighbourhoods, and where the limits of such Participatory Urbanism really lie.

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**This issue is supported by University of Leuven’s Master of Human Settlements and Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning, Bauhaus University Weimar’s International Master Programmes, Luleå University of Technology’s Master Of Science in Climate Sensitive Urban Planning and Building, Fontys’ Masterclass Lisbon 2016, University of Liechtenstein’s Master (Msc) of Architecture, and Erasmus University Rotterdam’s Institute of Urban Management (IHS). 

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