{"id":6115,"date":"2013-02-26T15:25:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:19:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T11:19:21","slug":"a-tale-of-twelve-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/fr\/a-tale-of-twelve-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"A TALE OF TWELVE CITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of co-designing the next Transeuropa Festival, we\u2019re trying to\u00a0broker connections<\/a>\u00a0between the groups we\u2019re working with in each city. We\u2019re also using the\u00a0keyword technique<\/a>\u00a0before to help us join up the dots between people\u2019s ideas, so now it was time to use this to connect up activities from the different cities.<\/p>\n

Click on the image below to activate the visualisation<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s striking is that many of these keywords are in fact questions. Which is reassuring as often the solutions people put forward don\u2019t work because they haven\u2019t thought well enough about the problem they want to address. They might have provided the right answer but to the wrong question.<\/p>\n

Of course, the questions you\u2019ll see below are still very broad. But if you\u2019re asking a question in different cities, you need it to be inclusive enough to cater for different interpretations of what we mean by \u201cmaking a living\u201d or \u201ccreative activism\u201d. This then creates the space for being able to make connections between the cities to create a broad-based transnational understanding of the issue.<\/p>\n

\"6295069268_7146d5a172_m\"\u00a0How can people understand the crisis?<\/strong><\/p>\n

From role playing a series of situations a \u201cnormal\u201d person has to confront (opening a bank account to asking for a loan) in the context of the economic crisis in Bologna to a flashmob on the effects of the recession in Cluj, there is a strong desire to show what the crisis looks and feels like to people on the street \u2013 literally as well as metaphorically!<\/p>\n

From a \u201cpecha kucha\u201d in Warsaw where people can put forward proposals for alternatives to a scenario planning workshop to imagine different futures in Cluj, the cities have come up with inclusive and interactive ways to think of what the good society might look like.<\/p>\n

We need to\u00a0find better ways<\/a>\u00a0to understand\u00a0how our peers are coping with the crisis<\/a>– we know that if we are going to create a better future for our generation, then we need to\u00a0imagine it together<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0How can we make a living?<\/strong><\/p>\n

From a living library to promote alternative ways to consume in Barcelona to a social market showing how to make crafts in Belgrade, being able to self-organise in public spaces to \u201cmake\u201d things helps foreshadow new forms of local economy.<\/p>\n

From creating an audio map of informal economies in Berlin to touring the history of economic alternatives across the city of Paris, movement is also highlighted as a key factor not just as a constraint to making a living in the sense of finding a job, but in this case of discovering economic alternatives on your doorstep.<\/p>\n

\"6294521779_533b7463e2_m\"We know we need to redefine what we mean by “making a living” if we are going to rethink what economy we want to build together.\u00a0Strange attractor or brain drain?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>From \u201cskype movies\u201d in Belgrade asking people who\u2019ve left their country how they feel about leaving and \u201ctext messaging\u201d actions to ask people in the city what they feel about the \u201cbrain drain\u201d, it\u2019s striking how it\u2019s in this thematic that digital technologies are the most visible.<\/p>\n

In a way, these uses of social media mirror the way migrants keep in touch with their cities of origin and how even though the technology might make them feel back at home, can it reduce the emotional distance to the cultures they\u2019ve been brought up in?<\/p>\n

The role of cities like Berlin and London in being strange attractors to people across Europe will also be debated.<\/p>\n

\"6295045366_0c91bec235\"As our cities change to recover from the crisis, we can learn from what people bring to it, but we can also\u00a0look at cities\u00a0<\/a>who’ve been moulded through crisis.<\/strong>How do different cultures live in the city?<\/strong>
\nFrom working with migrants to perform how invisible they feel on the borders between the private and the public space in Bologna to an urban game to rediscover migration through the different senses across the city in Warsaw, the kafkian concept of the \u201coutsider\u201d is put into play.<\/p>\n

From organising a community meal with refugees sharing recipes in Amsterdam to a living library with second generation migrants in Bologna, being able to\u00a0create the spaces for shared experiences is a practical but powerful way of discussing complex issues, as has been demonstrated by initiatives like\u00a0@pielab<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the influence of the Arab Spring on Europe?<\/strong><\/p>\n

From debates on how the Arab Spring affects our relationship with migration in Barcelona to how it influences civic participation in Berlin, it\u2019s an opportunity to\u00a0reflect not just on the interdependent nature of globalisation from an economic perspective, but on the network effects of new forms of democratic mobilisation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fascinating how the debate in Belgrade will show how the Serbian movement worked with the Egyptian protesters to develop strategies of revolution.<\/p>\n

How do we tackle the issues of detention camps and borders?<\/strong>\u00a0From storytelling a narrative about crossing borders in Amsterdam to recreating the feeling of being detained in a detention camp in Barcelona through emotional mapping, via a joint film programme between Bologna and Tangiers, the\u00a0use of visuals is critical to highlight issues that are too often unheard and unseen<\/strong>. What does democracy look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"6295018560_439a30c9fc_m\"From video streaming the voices of different activists in Belgrade to performing the use of the human body in politics in Barcelona, projecting democracy as a life-form shows that it can be more than fixed institutions or static protests.<\/p>\n

From forum theatre on political alternatives in Cluj to filming experiences of artistic mobilisation in Paris to a workshop getting people produce a new visual language in Warsaw,\u00a0it\u2019s important that people can perform new democratic \u201cgestures\u201d that everyone can feel comfortable with.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How can we develop democracy in open spaces?<\/strong><\/p>\n

From creating installations on \u201cpop up democracy\u201d in Amsterdam to an exhibition on the relationship between social security and social control in open spaces in Barcelona, we see that public space is a blank canvas that can be used for control as well as freedom.<\/p>\n

From the simulation of an Athenic agora to show how distant parliamentary democracy is from people\u2019s problems in Belgrade to the use of \u201copen space\u201d methodologies to create collaborative ideas in Cluj, we\u2019re asked to\u00a0rethink how we can use the metaphors of public spaces to develop techniques to better facilitate democratic debate.<\/strong>\u00a0How can we develop new forms of creative activism?<\/strong><\/p>\n

From getting people from different cities to produce stickers Cluj on getting over the cultural barriers of civil disobedience to getting people from different nationalities to perform a \u201cwalk of the discouraged\u201d in Paris,\u00a0we\u2019re confronted with the histories and perceptions of different cities on protest and dissent.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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