Rights to the City #2: Tenancy

Why is the tenant’s status so precarious and can activist initiatives bring about a change in housing policies in Croatia?

Orti Generali - Right to the Green City

A short documentary about urban regeneration of public green areas in the city of Turin, giving voice to the citizens involved in the project Orti Generali.

Zona 6: a radio podcast about Torino trap scene (trailer)

A video trailer introducing the radio podcast “Zona 6” hosted by Vandal Barriera and Argo, two young romanian trapper based in the district of Barriera di Milano in Torino.

MediActivism European Hackcamp - Table 5 - Collaborative Journalism: How to

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.

MediActivism European Hackcamp - Table 4: Soundscapes of Europe

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.

MediActivism European Hackcamp - Table 3: Gaming the City

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.

MediActivism European Hackcamp - Table 2: Solarpunk Methodologies

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.

MediActivism European Hackcamp - Table 1: Caring the City Map

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.

MediActivism European Hackcamp - Presentations

In May 2021 a group of 40 participants across Europe gathered in a virtual event to reclaim our right to the city. These were the outcomes.

Mediactivism European Hackcamp - Talkaoke

A talk show hosted by "The People Speak" where Mediactivism partners explain the Right To The City Issues they are working about in their projects

Mediactivism for the Right to the City - Trailer

Mediactivism for the Right to the City - Trailer

Mediactivism hackcamp in Marseille: Interview with Faustine Vieillot

This little presentation offers the principals data about the poor housing and its effects on the different neighborhoods in Marseille.

Mediactivism hackcamp in Marseille: Interview with Elven Sicard

One of the Marseille's Right To The City Lab activists

Mediactivism hackcamp in Marseille: Interview with Amandine Poupat

One of the Marseille's Right To The City Lab activists

Mediactivism hackcamp in Seville: interviews with participants

Young Mediactivism participants from Marseille travelled to Seville to attend their hackcamp and interviewed Mateja Rot and Xabier Artázcoz

Climate and the City - Mediactivism Hackcamp in Warsaw

In December 2019, young Warsaw right to the city activists gathered to reflect on the topics of climate change that can be taken at urban level and adequate strategies to fight against the climate change consequences: smog, global warming, drought...

This Could Be the Space - Mediactivism 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.

Does Marseille Still Exist? Mediactivism Hackcamp in Marseille

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.

Video Essay #5. We Love The City

The city speaks to us and confronts different imaginaries constructed upon it.

Video Essay #4. Who Are Our Neighbours?

They are the people whose name we know. People who we share memories with. People who help each other.

Video Essay #3. What is Public Space?

A place to move around, to hang out, to look after. A common place.

Video Essay #2. Housing (For Whom?)

Who has the right to live in the city? Is quality public housing guaranteed in Europe? Why are so many people evicted from their homes? Who can afford to pay rent in our towns?

Office of Nothing-ism : The city is ours ! Certainly not yours !

Marseille is evolving, Marseille is moving, changing and modernising itself. That is why we offer you with the gentry tour, an excursion throughout all the new spaces that are making a difference in Marseille

ZAKOLE introduction

The ZAKOLE project is dedicated to a wetland located in close proximity to the heart of Warsaw. Zakole Wawerskie combines picturesque, mostly inaccessible mires with vast meadows. The area is inhabited by an array of various creatures, such as beavers, birds, frogs, mosquitoes, reeds and grasses, as well as humans.

What We Imagine

Video campaign from the Turkey Medialab for the Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons project

Imagine It Into Being

Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons Teaser (Turkey Medialab)

Open Jazdow

Video Campaing from the Poland Medialab foro the Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons project.

Neighborhood of Friendship

A film about the neighbourhood of "Friendship" in Warsaw.

Radical Democracy Urban Encounter I compilation video:

Municipal Recipes

A conversation about caring for our cities

Londonville

Londonville (2015) is a performance-led documentary exploring the chaotic, dystopian world of London's current housing crisis and its hapless characters.

Aylesbury Estate // London housing crisis #nopumo

Short remix about the London Housing crisis

Welcome to Oxmouth

A fictional promotional video for Oxmouth Town Council.

HABITAR (Heaven is a place on Earth with you)

Abandoned airports, empty office buildings, housing estates without people, closed amusement attractions parks... As many other places where large sums were invested with the dubious expectation of a "better city", Seville also has its particular contemporary ruins: the site of the Expo 1992.

Forced Migration

In the 90’s one million five hundred thousand Kurds were forced to migration as their villages were burnt down.

Portmanteau

"Packing and traveling are nice things. If only you were going on vacation..."

Gurbet City

A collage of different images and music that contribute to the wide understanding of what a migrant is.

How Do You Know Tarlabasi?

"278 historical buildings in the 30,000 meter square area are being reconstructed" but at what cost?

Mobile Inner Peace

“…being ‘peaceful’ is a human right. ”

Migrant-Settler

“You are a frail migrant, how dare you aspire living in Byzantine? Get going and carry on or you will get a slap on your neck.”

Jerez of Babylon

A song about the way of living in the south of Spain, the cultural things that make us different.

At the Corner of My Street

A night hanging out with some young people in a French town.

Life Without Art

A boy from Kennington, London recites a poem about art and mixes it with footage of his local area

The Worst Years of the World

"Maybe the secret to live long is this: Never wage war with anybody, especially yourself."

Launderette

'I think the Kids. I think they're a beautiful thing to see... because they don't know nothing you know? They don't know nothing of this world. This world is very scary'

Four Seasons, One Night

A film about people who work and live at night.

Our River

Children talking about their river in Armenia

Love Street

The story is about the Love Street in İzmir from the eyes of old, new, young and elderly frequenters.

Just Brewed It, We're Waiting for It to Settle

"This place is my child. How can I give my child away? I devoted my life to it."

Wander

Drifting around the city of Seville

From Estate to Estate

'I never really got the knock-back at first because, especially in Crewe, 'cause no-one else was doing it, it was a new thing, people were excited by it, people loved it'.

Bialowieża of our dreams

Summer workshops about multimedia for over 100 children and young people.

Ahead from the Past

This place used to be a park

Return to my neighbourhood

A Portuguese girl returns to her neighborhood and remembers her Godmother, who has passed away

Congregations

'No Eating or Drinking is permitted in the Sanctuary'

A Life in Tarlabasi

Wandering in streets of Tarlabasi, a girl is looking for traces of her lost hometown, Mardin.

I Enjoy La Alameda

We try to understand how the changes have been produced in the last few years in La Alameda de Hércules have modified the way it's enjoyed by the citizens in Seville.

The Man Who Never Leaves the Island

Ali, who immigrated to Istanbul 38 years ago after having had a brain trauma, stayed in the Kinali Island and never left the island since.

90 Grad

Free running in the public space

The factory

A look at the postindustrial areas in one of the Polish towns called Skarżysko-Kamienna.

The Poetical, the political, the police in Seville

Videoremix which, through a series of images and archive stories, tries to recollect the personal vision of the author about The Sevillian Holy Week and its projection by the local media, with its particular vision about “the poetic” of this cultural manifestation.

One of Us

People of Eskisehir in Turkey talk about a statue, creating stories around it.

Garden City

Garden City is a video poem drawing on documentary, psychogeography and landscape art.

Paradise City

The 12th Gymnasium of Acharnae is situated in the suburbs of Athens, inside the former 2004 Olympic Village.

Decision

Project is focused on the urban greenery, which serves maybe not so much as an excuse, but a starting point for it

On Da (The) Streetz

A fun short film that investigates the 'realities' of urban life in Walthamstow, through a series of interviews and observations, with a powerful message at the end.

The Glass House

The history of Warsaw in one building.

TATV Eco News

In this mocumentary TA TV Eco News, Turgut Akan Primary School students report “live” from Istanbul to give the viewers the most interesting ecology news on TA TV.

CritiSymbolism

A critical perspective on the objectification and commercialization of Canakkale's history.

Sounds and Shadows

Two contrasting perspectives on the city of Canakkale, one echoing the remnants of its history full of wars, the other showing the city's current peaceful character.

Painting

From time to time residents meet to repaint the walls of their building. Through such collective work they build a real community.

Skarpa Cinema

Skarpa was once one of the most important cinemas in Warsaw.

The course in beautifying the world

"People need an opportunity to be together" says Renata - an initiator of a project which involves neighbours in colective work in their district.

View From My Window. 1968-1979 chronicles

A series of 40 photographs taken by Mariusz Hermanowicz from flat on People's Army st. nr. 23.

Summer Moviehouse

This movie house was once a lively, gathering spot for the neighbourhood whereas it is now left without any care in ruins.

Bucuresti, Ro

Oana Koulpy (born 1987) made this short film about the capital of her homeland, Romania.

Scavenger

Story of a young man collecting paper in Sariyer district of Istanbul

Ece'esque

"I put the camera on the shoulder of Melahat from Canakkale. I look from there. Genuine and true..."

Dear Brother Sakir

Sakir Turker is the charitable, beloved, fatherly owner of the cafe Sakir's Place, which has long become one of the symbols of Canakkale.

Wet Istanbul

How much the Istanbulites love their city?

On the Beach

An effervescent, cheerful person's yearning to teach the city people to give back.

Juice

As colourful as Istanbul

Zlin Soup

"Why Zlin city is so strange?"

Rebellion of the Machines

Rebellion of the Machines by Daghan Celayir deals with the concept of loss behind the walls of the Halic shipyard in Istanbul, one of the biggest and oldest shipyards in the world.

City Landscape

This film highlights the problem of rubbish in an Armenian town.

Travelling

Documentary film made by Francesca Togni (born 1990) from Italy.