Dear subscribers, after the summer vacation the project "Open Meaning" is back!
First of all, we remind you: by participating in the open meaning lecture, you are helping political prisoners.
This season we offer lectures on the methods, goals and issues of the development of the urban space. The focus is on the left perspective.
November's theme was inspired by events in recent months: political mobilization of students in Serbia, the successes of the left in Germany, new approaches to urban politics in New York. Everyone, in their own way, brings back to the agenda the question: who owns the city, who determines its future, and what opportunities for social change are opened at the city level?
By listening to the project's online lectures, you will learn about models of organizing collective life in cities in different periods of history, about the opportunities and challenges of urban policy, and about the problems and potential of urban self-government. History and modernity testify: urban housing and public infrastructure, new forms of urban ownership and participation of residents in management - many programs that were not continued on a national scale managed to be implemented in individual cities.
In addition, together with the lecturers in the project, you can discuss the following topics:
What forms of participation allowed the residents to really influence the structure of the city?
What remains of projects that were subsequently abandoned or were not further developed?
What solutions, on the contrary, were preserved and spread beyond individual cities?
The conversation will be built around three cities, three capitals, whose names begin with B: Berlin-Belgrade-Brasilia. Together with experts, you will have to understand what is happening there in municipal politics, and how the citizens themselves influenced it at different times.
Cycle plan:
November 16 (Monday) - Berlin.