-citizen initiative in public space-

Zone 0 :: From Central Park to ParkCentralPark : "forgive the inconvenience, we are working to improve the city".

City Mine(d)
by Tom de Forze

City Mine(d) is a production house for urban interventions, committed to the creation of cutting edge public artwork, the re-appropriation of public space and the development of new forms of urban citizenship. The initially Belgian NGO now has agencies in Brussels, Barcelona and London.

The objectives of the association are the realization and initiation of an urban movement, the realization and stimulation of urban projects, the organization and support enabling these initiatives, and the stimulation of a critical reflection with respect to the city.

City Mine(d)
by Tom de Forze

City Mine(d) is a production house for urban interventions, committed to the creation of cutting edge public artwork, the re-appropriation of public space and the development of new forms of urban citizenship. The initially Belgian NGO now has agencies in Brussels, Barcelona and London.

The objectives of the association are the realization and initiation of an urban movement, the realization and stimulation of urban projects, the organization and support enabling these initiatives, and the stimulation of a critical reflection with respect to the city.

ParcCentralPark

citizen initiative in public space

Zone 0 :: From Central Park to ParkCentralPark : "forgive the inconvenience, we are working to improve the city".

Poble Nou - Barcelona Mercalab - 2004, time to reform!

The property speculators are attacking again !

Between the hooligan Barcelona of the centre & the fashion Barcelona of Diagonal Mar in Poble Nou are 5 strategically situated hectares. On the 29th of May 2004, a group of people decided to use (some people say squat) some land abandoned by the Barcelona City Council. They only realised its strategic importance when a group of riot police arrived to stop 40 people cleaning an open piece of land. We understood that we had put our finger on a sensitive spot.

From February 26th to 29th, 2004, young artists, filmmakers, musicians, theorists and activists from all over Europe and many other parts of the world met at the Muffathalle in Munich for a number of events, speeches, discussions, presentations, performances, concerts and actions reflecting the pulse of the age. After experimenting a lot with new video codecs and an efficient distribution system, the documentation of all the panel debates is now online and ready for download.

The narrow mountain roads, that lead up to the former hunting lodge of Tito, are framed by thousands of people. They all have taken the Mayday as a cause for a trip into nature, lay easygoingly in the medium high grass or are barbecueing the meet on an open fire. Everything has its order in such an idyll like hundred years ago: The kids play ball, the women spread out blankets, the men drink beer.

Not only since "911" the security discourse became the hegemonial topic of the post office-modern society, by which from today all social affairs are organized. From Thatchers "There is NO alternative" over Giulianis "zero Tolerance" up to the fight against the globalization opponents: Security serves in each case as naturalized legitimaton of political decisions and national force excesses.

kinoki was founded in 1992 within the Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus as its homebase, as a project to create political cinema by showing movies and videos rarely seen in TV or regular motion picture theatres through setting series of subject and organizing open-air-shows.

ASA is an association which puts her concentration on PERFORMANCE ART. It started in the year 1978, when Boris Nieslony, head of ASA, began to organize meetings of different artist, independent organizers, artist-run-spaces-holders and organizers of alternative and parallel cultural projects.

MAIZ is an organization of and for female migrants. According to the principle of the self organization MAIZ works since 1994 amongst other things also with female migrants in sex industry, persons concerned with woman trafficing and juvenile migrants.