The groups we have in mind all use their creativity to make cities better [more fun, more fair]. Creativity that can be expressed in arts projects, activism, but also in just grassroots citizenship”. What they have in common is that they are all initiatives from the bottom up, started up by people themselves, that they are not for profit, and that distances are very small between initiator and participant, between producer and user and between artist and audience.

Nelly ALFANDARI, artiste, City Mine(d) London

Jens BRANDT, architecte, Supertanker

Anders HAGEDORN, urban planner, Supertanker, Copenhagen

Stany CAMBOT, architecte, Echelle Inconnue

Giulia CANTALUPPI,

Laura COLINI, researcher, INURA

Tom DEFORCE, City Mine(d) Barcelona

Vildana DRIJEVIC, sociologue, Kriterion

Sarah HABERSACK, Social Polis

Frauke HEHL, Workstation

Nikolai JEFFS, KUD Mreza, researcher

Jim Segers, City Mine(d) London/ Brussels

Ekim TAN, The Responsive City, researcher

Catarina THORN, FSSK

Janet NKUBANA, Gahaya Links

Jon CRUDDAS, Labour Depute

Michel GENET, Greenpeace Belgium