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March 2025 - Student blockades continue in Serbia, the process of suspending work in schools, universities, lawyers, farmers, artists and the Unions of many other sectors has been initiated. A wave of widespread civil disobedience was launched with the intention that it is necessary to implement a change in society. First of all, towards an autocratic corrupt regime that blatantly neglects public resources, but also towards human lives in favor of personal interests.

Serbia is not a isolated example regarding corruption, but unique case in this moment, that's why we connect cases in the networks for change - in October last year in Berlin we participated in the 'Kin City' Conference organized by our partners and friends Berliner Gazette, and that's why we are now sharing additional materials for inspiration, information and further engagement.
Kin City · Reimagining Urban Space within Ecological Limits 
October 17-19, 2024 
ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics

Much of the world’s population now depends on cities as places to live. 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?

All materials are also available on the event web page:

https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city/
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Urban Ecologies, Infrastructures of Life, and Internationalist Struggles:

Our planet of cities is trapped in an economic-ecological vicious circle. To break out, we must expand critical reappraisals of the histories and continuities of colonial-capitalist urbanization and connect urban and environmental struggles across borders.

Text by Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki
Publisher: kuda.org, Novi Sad

This 100-page publication is an elaboration of the festival themes and an extended introduction to the “Kin City” text series. It includes artwork by the Colnate Group and is available as an open access book in English, German, and Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian.