Walk to Chemnitz garage complexes: Disputes and struggles over a piece of East German everyday culture to this day
GDR garages are still a common sight in rural and urban areas in East Germany today. Despite their visibility, 35 years after the political transformation they receive too little attention, even though they represent an important ‘microcosm’ for their owners and neighbourhoods: a place for working and tinkering in the sense of a ‘repair culture’, […]
Center without a future / Future without a center? – Critical perspectives on the “Future Center” in Halle (Saale)
Last year, Halle (Saale) was awarded the contract for the “Future Center for German Unity and European Transformation”. In its self-description, the 200-million-euro project boasts about the location, which “not only reflects the ongoing fractures and dynamics of transformation in the tense coexistence of social segregation and civic cohesion, but also translates them into diverse […]
Nationwide rent cap – how do we build up the necessary pressure?
In the run-up to the Bundestag elections, the “Mietendeckel Jetzt!” campaign was formed as an alliance of various political organizations, initiatives, associations, foundations and tenants’ associations. In the context of an election campaign charged with racism, armament and frontal attacks on the welfare state and asylum law, it succeeded in making a strong demand for […]
Homelessness as a gap in the RAS movement
According to the Federal Working Group for Homeless Assistance, there are around 650,000 homeless people living in Germany. Funding for support services is being cut and fought over, existing shelters are overcrowded and underfunded, people on the street experience violence in various forms every day. There are as many different stories and fates as there […]
enter the space – Participatory spatial development with young people for young people, example Chemnitz
Chemnitz, the city of vacancies, the city of open spaces and endless potential? Chemnitz, the city of makers, the city without Späti and without disturbances? Chemnitz as one of the demographically oldest regions in Europe? We have landed in this area of tension with the “enter – Young Cultural Region Chemnitz” program. Starting in the […]
