18/06/2021
We are ready to share the outputs of the MediActivism European Hackcamp! These are the results of intense days of collective thinking. But first of all, let's review what happened during the event.
17/06/2021
The table 1 at the MediActivism European Hackcamp created two different prototypes which could be replicated in every city taking to account its local characteristics.
17/06/2021
How to make collective politics through a Solarpunk approach? Table 2 had been working in a toolkit that can be adapted to different contexts. It is an excellent way to get inspiration from utopian communities and projects.
17/06/2021
Gaming is the source of potential "city hacks" and the table 3 seized on that to propose other approaches to bring the city closer. The result was a game to be played from empathy and the female gaze standpoint.
17/06/2021
How to work in the right to the city through the lens of sound? Table 4 focused on the notion of Caring city to create a guide with some tools to listen to care and fully to our surrounding urban environments.
17/06/2021
How should a collaborative journalism infrastructure look like? There are multiple forms to envision it, but the table 5 develop a "Coffee house Europe" where to create a democratic, open and inclusive space in Europe to bring people together across-border.
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22/05/2021
The MediActivism European Hackcamp is starting next Monday (24th May)! Join us at the Zoom session or watch the stream on Youtube. Remember: 7:45 - 9:15 pm CEST.
06/05/2021
The MediActivism European Hackcamp will happen from 24th to 28th May 2021. We will work on the right to the city through the media lens to reclaim better conditions of living for our cities.
08/04/2021
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.
16/03/2021
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 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
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 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
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 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
Join us on the first MediActivism Talk Show on Tuesday 15th December. 13:00h CET
05/08/2020
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
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
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
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
Will coronavirus stop gentrification, touristification and the privatisation of public space?
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03/04/2020
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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.