by Berliner Gazette
The program for the Kin City festival, organized by Berliner Gazette, celebrating its 25th anniversary, is out. October 17-19 at the ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics. The program includes a conference, artistic interventions, and workshops. Admission is free, seats are limited. Register by Oct. 15 here: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city
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 all of this. As ‘engines of growth,’ cities drive colonial capitalist globalization. One consequence of this process: devastated ecosystems that 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? The three-day “Kin City” festival aims to explore these questions through academic, artistic, and activist interventions. With Debora Darabi, Pepe Dayaw, Nelli Kambouri, Constanza Mendoza, Svjetlana Nedimović, Claudia Núñez, Sara Petrolova, Christine Winter, Dzina Zhuk, and many more.
Program highlights
Keynote: “Urban Planning and ‚Making Kin‘: Reflections on Multispecies Environmental Justice in Spatial Planning” by Sandra Huning (Technical University Dortmund).
Talks: “Climate (In)Justice in the Megacities of the Global South” by Farhana Sultana (Syracuse University).
Oral storytelling: “VWagner City Edda” by Cata von Noxen, Sara Petrolova, Model Y. Schrottkiste
Admission is free, seats are limited, register by Oct 15 here: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city
