08/04/2021
ZAKOLE Wawerskie - Exchanges of knowledge with a wetland
ZAKOLE is a wetland in close proximity of the heart of Warsaw. The Right to the City Lab produced by Krytyka Polityczna is exploring its spaces and importance for the city.
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16/03/2021
Citizens' Assemblies. Right to the City Zagreb. Podcast #1
The Right to the City Zagreb podcast started as a kind of experiment, a way for our participants, who have dealt with urban justice issues for years, organizing protests and starting initiatives, to try to communicate their ideas in a new format. In conversations with activists, scientists and city and state officials, our editorial team - Iva Marčetić, Nikola Zdunić and Antonija Komazlić - are exploring various RTTC topics, such as the democratization of city management or inadequate housing policies, and discuss how these can be improved.
09/03/2021
The Office of Nothing-ism - Digital Workshops
The Office of Nothing-ism wishes to produce a counter-discourse springing from the representations and the imagination of residents, through the creation of citizen labels for the city of Marseille.
31/12/2020
New Ways to Encourage Change
Whether the right to the city is still relevant when considering power relations and struggles in the city after the coronavirus pandemic, which has changed the city’s social role in just a few months, is a question that activists and journalists from London, Marseille, Seville, Warsaw, Stockholm and Zagreb tried to find an answer to in the first MediaActivism Talk Show. As we try to reimagine urban arrangements that would truly meet our needs – from better public and living spaces, better housing conditions, to measures that would combat climate crises – the pandemic demands that activists devise new participatory and creative ways to encourage change in the coming months and years.
23/12/2020
Patio 108. Video testimonies in a post-pandemic Seville
Patio 108 is an invitation to occupy the narratives of Seville. An invitation to drain the city from its stereotypes, to centrifuge it to its peripheries, to fill it with diversity, neighborhoods, reality.
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18/12/2020
Launch of “The Office of Nothingism of Marseille”
The office of Nothimgism welcomes you and offers you a new vision of the Ex-Marseille Provente monopoly. Our agents are available to consult you and co-build with you citizen labels to be awarded to our beautiful city in ruins!
10/12/2020
ZAKOLE - New ways of talking about and experiencing places
Zakole Wawerskie is a surprisingly wild wetland located between Gocław and Wawer developments, in the immediate vicinity of Trasa Siekierkowska and Trakt Lubelski routes. We wish to emphasize the importance of such places in cities, especially for natural and climatic reasons, but also take into account the complexity of relations and interests of various actors connected to these places.
23/10/2020
Media narratives for the right to the post-covid city: MediActivism Talk Show
Join us on the first MediActivism Talk Show on Tuesday 15th December. 13:00h CET
05/08/2020
London’s gentrification on screen
Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in 1964 to describe the displacement of working-class people from inner-city London districts by middle-class incomers. Around the same time the process began filtering through to screens.
29/06/2020
What to do in the event of a wreck. Right to the City Lab Notes
The Spanish group underwent a drastic change with the arrival of the pandemic. Their aim was to mapping of the labor precariousness in the tourist sector hits an iceberg and we are about to collapse, but suddenly they found themselves shut away in a city without tourists. In this post, it is explained how they collectively addressed a change of direction in their project.
06/06/2020
The project reacts
Although the virus has penetrated to different extents, all partners are working from home and continuing to work away from their offices. As well as practical difficulties, there are conceptual ones too: post-COVID, right to the city issues aren’t quite the same.
12/05/2020
After the Pandemic We Went for Doughnuts: Amsterdam Knows How to Eat Through the Crisis
The Dutch did it again, they went ahead the rest of us. Four centuries ago they were one of the first nations in Europe to opt for capitalism when facing the General Crisis. Nowadays, when we all keep wondering whether the coronavirus and a recession that follows in its footsteps spell the apocalypse, the Dutch capital looks forward to the future: ready to abandon well-trodden paths and well-known narratives of perpetual economic growth and try out a new strategy of sustainable eco-growth, i.e. doughnut economics.
06/05/2020
Right to the (post-covid) city
Will coronavirus stop gentrification, touristification and the privatisation of public space?
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03/04/2020
This Could Be the Space - Kurziv's Hackcamp in Zagreb
Recognizing the importance of citizen participation in creating a social fabric that brings cities back into their own hands, Kurziv’s hackcamp This Could Be the Space focused on reimagining the city and the processes of collective decision-making in their future development.
02/04/2020
"Marseille still exists" - Hackcamp by Les Têtes de l'Art
During 3 days, 70 young people, local media and specialist of the Right to the city as Alain Barlatier, anthropologists of the blog "After the "collapse" or the "Museum Street" operation, architects and artists have been exchanging point of view, experiences and ideas around one purpose: generate proposals for actions that could change their right to the city.
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02/04/2020
Climate and the City: Warsaw Hackcamp Experience
Climate change has a global dimension, and therefore countering its effects should also take the shape of an effort at the planet-wide level. Does this mean, however, that right to the city activists should remain passive regarding climate issues? Urban activists cannot imagine not taking a fight on such an important matter that would significantly affect the future of us all.
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30/03/2020
The 'European' City Today – What Is It and Who Is It for
Number of European cities' heritage is being put into the service of tourism development, and Spain's Seville is one of them.
23/03/2020
Hackcamp in Botkyrka by Fanzingo
Fanzingo chose to have the Hackcamp together with 20 young people from Botkyrka during their culture summer job given to them by the municipality. It usually means that we make a magazine from scratch and about four films during the three weeks they are with us at Fanzingo. This time we made “Right to the city” the theme of the whole period and incorporated the Hack Camp into the process, the development, production and presentation of the works the youth created.
22/03/2020
Hackcamp «The city is ours» in Seville, by ZEMOS98
In October 2019 our partners ZEMOS98 organized “The city is ours”, a meeting held in Seville with thirty local, national and international participants working the city in areas related to memory, identity, folklore and tourism from artistic, audiovisual, journalistic, statistical and academic fields.
20/03/2020
A media archive for activists on the Right to the City
One of the key assets of Mediactivism is the Media Collection, an archive of more than 400 pieces of alternative media created by active citizens from across Europe.
13/03/2020
Welcome to Mediactivism.eu
The movements for the right to the city are flourishing in different cities of the world as a response to the life conditions imposed by neoliberal politics. Civil society is organising to claim for politics about housing, struggling against those who privatize territories and worsen the living conditions of citizens. Added to that, most of the local councils are failing at their attempts to implement public policies to protect public space and material and immaterial heritage of the cities.