movement
City Mine(d) was set up in 1997 as an “urban movement”. In the mean time we realised that cities are not only made on a neighbourhood level, or even on the level of the metropolis, but that relations with other cities and international collaborations also decide on how the city works. In 2010, at the completion of Krax and Micornomics, City Mine(d) translates all its international connections in the ambition of an urban movement.
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| Since 2006, City Mine(d) brings together initiatives stretching from urban gardening over bicycle projects and neighbourhood initiatives to DIY-ing and actions to support the rights of citizens of a different colour of skin, sexual orientation or social class.
They share a spontaneous and informal character, have no employer or employees, and most of all they are urban not despite the city, but because of the city. Until now, participants from 13 cities organised 3 key moments to galvanise the platform into action. Download the booklets for these moments here. |
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We can get the benefits of an international collaboration, without the danger of costly overhead or unnecessary travel, through bi-lateral and multi-lateral collaborations that promote the same name.
The sum of those collaborations can get its visibility and credibility from a common reference [logo, “powered by” or “a … project”] and publication of its activities [on a website or in the press]. As such, the network will become a movement made up of the different activities [local and international] that happen under its name. The guiding document of the movement, its charter, can create a sense of belonging and inspire people to action, regulate the use of the references, and state the shared political aspirations of those involved. The Urban Platform will be the opportunity to discuss the first draft of the Charter. |
With the things we create, do or learn, many of us try to have an impact beyond our local community. We want to share thoughts and experience with people in different countries and even different time zones; and find complicity and back-up on the other side of the globe. Although technology should allow this type of collaboration, in practice it rarely does. Many explanations can be found, from the practical –I can’t be bothered to switch on all these different communication machines–, to the political -Google and Facebook are looking over your shoulder. But we think there must be a way. Together with e-itd from Barcelona, we are currently working on a proposal that will be tested during the Bazaar of 21 november 2010. |
