kuda.org announces Berliner Gazette “Kin City” festival, October 17-19,2024 and new publication

Kin City · Reimagining Urban Space within Ecological Limits ·

October 17-19, 2024

ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics

Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin, Germany

 

The program of the “Kin City” festival, with which Berliner Gazette celebrates its 25th anniversary, is now online: academic, artistic, and activist impulses, guided by the following questions: How can we connect urban and environmental struggles? How can we reclaim and reinvent cities as infrastructures of life?
The “Kin City” festival will take place from October 17-19 at the ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin. Admission is free, seats are limited, please register by October 15.
More info on the program and registration here: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city
More information of the workshops: https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/workshops/ 
 

Publication · “Kin City” · Urban Ecologies, Infrastructures of Life, and Internationalist Struggles

Text: Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki
Publisher: kuda.org, Novi Sad
ISBN 978-86-88567-45-9 (ENG)
ISBN 978-86-88567-39-8 (DE)
ISBN 978-86-88567-40-4 (BHS)

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. This 100-page publication is an elaboration of the festival themes and an extended introduction to the “Kin City” text series that will be published in BG throughout 2024. It includes artwork by the Colnate Group and is available as an open access book in EnglishGerman, and Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian. You can order a print copy for 10 Euros plus shipping at office[at]kuda[dot]org.

 

Special offer for alternative spaces

On behalf of the publisher, we would like to make a special offer to alternative spaces: independent bookstores, community and care centers, grassroots libraries, artist-run spaces, social centers, institutions and non-profit organizations dedicated to emancipatory politics, and the like. We offer you the opportunity to display the Kin City book in your space and/or at your events and offer it on a donation basis at a suggested minimum price that you set. The proceeds would stay with you. And you would decide whether to keep it or pass it on to others who need it more than you do. So contact us at info[at]berlinergazette[dot]de and let us know how many copies and which language version you want.

This offer is part of our long-term (re-)distribution initiative, which distributes books whose production context allows for downward redistribution of resources.

For example, at the Kin City Festival we presented books by ourselves and a number of our friends, colleagues, cooperation and outreach partners (including Berlin Journals - On the History and Present State of the City, Kuda.org, and transcript) and – in exchange for the books – collected donations for the climate justice initiative ZBOR (which was created at BG’s Allied Grounds 2023 conference and is based in the Balkans and Berlin). ZBOR, in turn, decided to redistribute the donations to someone who needed it even more: a social center in Banja Luka (the second largest city in BiH) that is now facing eviction due to liquidity problems.

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.

* Photo ©Colnate Group