Kin City
The “Kin City” text series draws attention to the abyss between conversations about ‘the city’ on the one hand and ‘nature’ on the other, and the resulting failure to adequately conceive and politicize the crucial role of metropolitan spaces for human and other-than-human life across the planet. To overcome this cognitive dissonance, the “Kin City” project addresses cities as both drivers and ‘victims’ of ecological collapse, and above all creates a space for exploring the existing and possible connections between urban and environmental struggles. This is suggested not least by “kin,” defined here as a kinship based on a deep sense of the connections and relationships that hold our world together and make possible interwoven forms of social, spatial, and ecological justice.