“It is sad to think that places like this represent the beginning of the end” this is what a friend of mine told me during the performative lecture carried out on July 26, 2014, at the project space uqbar by Eva Kietzmann and Petra Kuebert, Berlin. Continue reading
Makers, as synonymous for active citizens who are everywhere slowly, but inexorably, changing the rules of urban life and of the market. Different successful stories of neighbors who are taking the lead on a small scale to find creative and sustainable solutions to cope with daily problems in a city and to look at the general crisis as a positive challenge. What is happening in the cities? Why there is this need to associate, to create, to share and develop new forms of cooperation and re(use), to shape a common project and self-determined development strategies? Grass-roots initiatives are more than ever raising their voices and claiming their right to the city. Continue reading
The city, or better an almost empty and disused market hall (today known as Markthalle Neun and one of the most flourishing place in the district of Kreuzberg and in whole Berlin), as interactive stage. Continue reading
This is part of a site-specific project realized during my first year in Berlin, when I was absolutely fascinated and thrilled by the energy of this unconventional European capital and I wanted to discover its “secrets” as much as possible. Continue reading
A selection of articles from international newspapers on the topic of bottom-up initiatives, where citizens claim their right to shape public spaces…
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“Informieren, informieren: das ist unsere Hausaufgabe für die Bevölkerung!”
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You have to convince people to stop in their tracks
Ipazia 