THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX

Title: THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX

Organisers: @LomaDoom (Femke Dekker), Werker Collective

Guests: Mokum Kraakt, Niet te Koop, OCCII, W139, We Are Here, Adam Adriss, Ad de Jong, Guilly Koster, Teferi Mekonen, Boudewijn Ruckert, Sjoerd Stolk, Wouter Stroet, Alite Thijssen, Elke Uitentuis, Annegriet Wietsma.

The Right to the City XXX is a podcast that explores Amsterdam’s grassroots resistance against homelessness and unaffordable housing, and its consequent fuel of counterculture platforms in the city, in the past and in the present, from the first rent strikes of the 1930’s until today.

The project defines an alternative map of the city through a series of conversations and sound-pieces raising questions such as: How to survive today’s neoliberal policy in Amsterdam? Is it possible to create alliances from different positions and privileges to claim back together our Right to the City? What role does art and artists have to play in the ongoing housing struggle, as they are often used as agents of gentrification?

The Right to the City XXX merges Loma Doom (Femke Dekker) and Werker Collective’s long term practices which investigate the role of archives as tools for resistance and political imagination. An edition of screen-printed bandanas has been designed by Werker to help spread the sound waves through the city.
With the generous support of Social Practice Workshop (Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten), Education from Below (European Culture Fonds), San Serriffe (Mondriaan Fund).

THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX’s tracks

• THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX #2 by THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX
• THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX #6 by THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX
• THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX #4 by THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX
• THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX #3 by THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX
• THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX #7 by THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX
• THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX #5 by THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX
• THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX #1 by THE RIGHT TO THE CITY XXX