Kin City Talks · Oct. 17 · 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. · ZK/U, Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin
Free entry, limited seats, registration required by October 15 at info[at]berlinergazette[dot]de. Vegan catering is optional and will be available by reservation only. The daily package (incl. breakfast, lunch, dinner and coffee/tea) costs 25 Euro, which must be paid in advance. You’ll get the details when you register.
What does it mean to connect urban and environmental struggles? How can we reclaim and reinvent cities as infrastructures of both human and other-than-human life?
09:00 a.m.: Registration + breakfast
10:00 a.m.: Welcome address · Magdalena Taube + Krystian Woznicki (berlinergazette.de)
10:15 a.m.: “Urban Planning and ‘Making Kin’: Reflections on Multispecies Environmental Justice in Spatial Planning” · Keynote · Sandra Huning (Technical University Dortmund) · Moderation: Manuela Zechner
11:00 a.m.: “Rhizomatic Ecologies, Insurgent Communities, and Green Policing in Athens” · Talk · Nelli Kambouri (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) · Moderation: Sotiris Sideris
11:45 a.m.: “Capitalism and Environmental Stress in Berlin” · Talk · Debora Darabi (Charité University Hospital Berlin) · Moderation: Ellen Gomes
12:30 p.m.: “Turning Shopping Malls into Care Centers” · Project presentation · Paula Mikat + Cléo Mieulet (Sorge ins ParkCenter)
01:00 p.m.: Lunch break
03:30 p.m.: “Balkans Revisited: Climate Camp and the City” · Project presentation · ZBOR (Združeni Balkanski Otpor i Rad)
04:00 p.m.: “Climate (In)Justice in the Megacities of the Global South” · Talk · Farhana Sultana (Syracuse University) · Moderation: Magdalena Taube
04:45 p.m.: “Kin Cities in a Settler State – Whose Kin?” · Christine Winter (University of Otago/Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka) · Moderation: Rose Wanjiku
05:30 p.m.: Dinner + bar opens
07:00 p.m.: “Chuquicamata: Necropolitics and Autopoiesis of a Mining City” · Performance-Lecture + installation · Constanza Mendoza
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The “Kin City” conference program is part of the “Kin City” festival, celebrating BG’s 25th anniversary. It is organized by BG 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 include Common Ecologies, Critical Data Lab, Harun Farocki Institut, Kuda.org, LeftEast, NON, Supermarkt, and Undisciplined Environments.
More info on the festival program here: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city