This session is the first programme of a three-part series, called ‘Speak to your imagination’, in which we will playfully consider how our society can be shaped differently.

Do not expect a standard panel, but a conversation in which everyone can participate. The interactive part of the programme is optional. If you only want to listen, you can. Each speaker will discuss one historical, current or imaginative case that, for them, embraces the image of the post-capitalist city. In activism, we’re mostly focused on challenging that which oppresses, disrupting the status quo and provoking the powers that be. But what comes afterwards? How can we move on from an anti-capitalist city to a post-capitalist city? Not striving for a set utopia, but imagining a city in which its inhabitants are inseparably part of its creation. Ever changing, ever experimenting to counter the current collective alienation. During this night we’ll playfully imagine a just future together by discussing questions like: What would the city look like if profit-making was no longer on the foreground? How can we rethink ownership and the way work is valued? What should happen to our art and culture? How should our relationship with nature change? What about the way in which the city works together with the provinces? And our relations between the local and international? Let’s picture a post-capitalist city as an act of resistance in itself.

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Speak to your imagination

Picturing a Post-Capitalist City