Kin City · Reimagining Urban Space within Ecological Limits

Much of the world’s population now depends on cities as places to live. But for a growing number of people, cities are not safe places. Threats range from massive pollution to heat waves and rising sea levels. Cities are largely responsible for these problems. As ‘engines of growth,’ cities drive colonial capitalist globalization. One consequence of this process: devastated ecosystems return the stress they have been subjected to, for example in the form of the increasing violence of climate change.

How can we politicize the dual role of cities as both drivers and ‘victims’ of the disasters of our time? How can we reclaim and reinvent cities as infrastructures of both human and other-than-human life? How can we connect urban and ecological struggles? At “Kin City” researchers, artists, and activists will search for answers.

• Conference · Debora Darabi, Sandra Huning, Farhana Sultana, and more
  The City as Environmental Hell: Reports, Reflections, and Alternatives
• Performance Lecture + Installation · Constanza Mendoza
  Chuquicamata: Necropolitics and Autopoiesis of a Mining City
• Oral Storytelling · Cata von Noxen, Sara Petrolova, Model Y. Schrottkiste
  VWagner City-Edda
• Performance · Sari-Sari Night · Pepe Dayaw und Special Guests
  The City of Milk, Honey, and Other Leftovers
• Workshops · Svjetlana Nedimović, Claudia Núñez, Dzina Zhuk, and more
  24 hour hackathon, five workshops, each with a 24-hour program: “Caring Urban Ecologies,” “Contesting ‘Green’ Coloniality,” “Undoing Urban Borders,” “Hacking Liquid Tree City,” and “War-Torn Urban Ecologies.”
• Publication · Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki
  Urban Ecologies, Infrastructures of Life, and Internationalist Struggles

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Celebrating BG’s 25th anniversary, the “Kin City” festival is organized by BG | berlinergazette.de and funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, the German Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb, and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

The event is a cooperation with ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics. Outreach partners Common Ecologies, Harun Farocki Institut, Kuda.org, LeftEast, NON, Supermarkt, Undisciplined Environments, and transcript.