Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Shaping CITYzenship – Photos!

A while ago I wrote about this project I was involved in, which revolved around the city of Berlin, with a focus on the changing nature of the city and how media campaigns have shaped my understanding (in a way…

The ballad of those things that will not be remembered

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Anti-nuclear energy demonstration in Berlin: let’s fight the system, just not the sexist part of it


On Saturday 18th, roughly 100.000 gathered and marched… from Hauptbahnhof (Berlin central station) to the Reichstag, to show their opposition to the government unwillingness to completely abandon nuclear energy.
I was there, as you can imagine, and besides walking alongside

Urban agriculture – taking back abandoned public spaces in Berlin

Cities have plenty of abandoned public spaces and when they manage to remain in public hands, which is not always the case unfortunately, often something very special can happen. An example is this great project: Prinzessinnengärten… (Princess gardens), launched by

Public spaces in Berlin: truly public decisions?

Due to something I have been working on, I have been out observing and photographing the city a lot. Berlin is not a city that has gone undocumented. Quite to the contrary, there are many exhibitions and art works dedicated…

The December 12 “candle” demonstration in Berlin for the Copenhagen summit

On the 12th of December I went to a demonstration, a candle light demonstration in a cold pre-Christmas Berlin, held in front of the Brandenburg Gate and organised by the group TCKTCK….
The aim was, of course, to tell