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City in times of crisis: building a network of care and solidarity

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This Right to the City Lab is designed to support and provide visibility to endeavors of Right to the City activists, mainly concerning housing issues. Media content and knowledge produced within the Lab aims to reach directly to vulnerable groups, but also to the general public to raise awareness about housing and other Right to the City issues and to push for necessary change. RttC Lab will additionally reflect on new urban life modalities and explore the various forms of cooperative practices, intersectional networking and bottom-up approaches to social change as examples of good practices and knowledge pools crucial to overcoming the crisis we are facing.

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28/10/2020
Citizens' Assemblies - #1 Podcast
The first podcast coming out of our Right to the city lab deals with citizens' assemblies - public forums that bring together neighborhood residents and encourage the exercise of collective power in the decision-making process. The forgotten democratic form has been rediscovered and used in recent years thanks to activists who have entered local government bodies. Iva Marčetić and Nikola Zdunić talked to them about their experiences, the challenges of organizing assemblies and their outcomes.
https://www.kulturpunkt.hr/content/pravo-na-grad-zbor-gradana
29/06/2020
This Could Be the Space - Mediactivism Hackcamp in Zagreb
Video. Kurziv’s hackcamp focused on reimagining the city and the processes of collective decision-making in their future development. The two-part hackcamp gathered, on the one hand, local students and young professionals interested in engaged journalism and, in the second part, participants from different European cities and different professional backgrounds, brought together to reflect on the future of cities and the challenges they face.
23/03/2020
Three interviews with European activists
We published these interviews in our magazine Kulturpunkt:
- Commiting to Encounter and Collaboration. Interview with Stéphanie Lucien-Brun, a volunteer at Lyon's Laucaux Motiv' community center.
- Encouraging Empathy. Interview with Martin Mikhail, a co-ordinator of community center RISC.
- We need to expand radical democracy. Architect and activist Kike España talks about cultural and social centre La Casa Invisible.
- Democracy is all about sharing. Sociologist Pascal Gielen talks about creative cities and the ideology of commonism that he sees as an alternative to neoliberal market-oriented relations.

Updates

Citizens' Assemblies - #1 Podcast

This Could Be the Space - Mediactivism Hackcamp in Zagreb

Three interviews with European activists