{"id":5763,"date":"2014-04-24T17:10:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2014-04-24T17:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:10:57","slug":"this-time-were-coming-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/fr\/this-time-were-coming-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"This time we’re coming to you!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At European Alternatives, we develop creative activities to help people imagine, enact and demand new ways of living. You may have been to our Transeuropa Festivals taking place in different cities across Europe. You may have gone for a transnational walk, played our urban games or even been a human book in our living libraries. You may have taken part in research to help design scenarios of the future or supported our citizens\u2018 initiatives.<\/p>\n

This time, we\u2019re coming to you.<\/p>\n

What do we want to discover?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We want to uncover the\u00a0unheard voices<\/a>, the\u00a0unmet needs<\/a>\u00a0and theundiscovered assets<\/a>\u00a0of communities across Europe. We want to understand\u00a0how people are coping with the crisis. To do this, a group of 30 people will travel in caravans in six zones across the continent.<\/p>\n

This is no\u00a0Grand Tour<\/a>. There will be no valets nor overnight stays in embassies. This won\u2019t be a \u201chippie trail\u201c or a \u201cpilgrimage\u201c either. We\u2019re not looking for the new Goa or Mecca. But like Dean, Sal & Marylou from \u201cOn the Road\u201c, we will be travelling to make sense of a world that we\u2019ve yet to discover and many ignore.<\/p>\n

We will learn from nomads, the original transnational tribes! They travelled to find what they needed to make a living and to find meaning, whether that\u2019s pastures to grow food or places to rest. Nomads also brought in new influences from the places they passed through.<\/p>\n

Through travelling through different environments \u2013 from the countryside to the city, from clone towns to ghost towns, from coastal resorts to inner city ghettos \u2013 our caravans\u00a0want to discover how you are imagining, enacting & demanding new ways of living.<\/p>\n

Who do we want to meet?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We want to meet people who feel they are voiceless in the public sphere, ranging from those without formal rights to those who feel discriminated against. We want to meet people involved in campaigning & innovating – from community activists to civic entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

What are we going to achieve?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through meeting groups using creative methods, we will be uncovering issues that are unheard in the public sphere, groups that are being excluded from the political debate and techniques that can stimulate people to engage in issues that cross borders.<\/p>\n

Through connecting these initiatives through online and offline methods, we will open up a transnational perspective for them to take action and connect with other initiatives.<\/p>\n

How are we going to do it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been developing ways to navigate the world differently, from a\u00a0storytelling bus<\/a>\u00a0to a\u00a0caravan of the commons<\/a>\u00a0so that people can see the environments change before their eyes as they discover the hidden stories of the neighbourhoods they pass through.<\/p>\n

This time, there will be six groups of young people travelling in caravans across Europe at the same time…between 26 April and 4 May. Through travelling across the different nooks and crannies of Europe, we will stop in neighbourhoods to meet people and groups.<\/p>\n

What activities are we going to organise?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We will organise creative activities with the people we meet, using a mixture of techniques they have developed and those we have. These will include:<\/p>\n