Right (on city) now more than ever!
Off to Chemnitz for the forum
June 19 to 22, 2025
Stadtwirtschaft Schüffnerstr.1
Register directly!
Brief info
Deadline: June 08
Do you need a place to sleep for the weekend? Then also register for the bed exchange and we will get back to you.
Please only register if you will be attending several days or a large part of the forum. It will also be possible to attend individual events if capacity remains.
Registration form
You can get involved
We need places to sleep!
Bed exchange
People from different regions are coming to Chemnitz for the forum to organize for a fairer, livable urban development. In order to give all participants the opportunity to be there, we need your support. Whether it’s a king size bed, a sofa or a few square meters on the floor – every sleeping place counts!
I'm offering a place to sleep - Form
Call for participation
At this year’s Right to the City Forum, we would also like to offer a space for practical approaches. The plan is to create a place in public space that will be used throughout the weekend. We are still looking for people or groups who would like to work with us on the theoretical and practical design of this space. So if you have workshop ideas that deal explicitly with the appropriation of public space or can be easily implemented there, please send an email to info@rechtaufstadt-forum.de. We are also looking for craft or creative inputs, be it an urban gardening workshop, a theater piece or a handicraft station. The event is intended as an experiment and thrives on the people who want to get actively involved and help shape it. Let’s get organized!
Donations
We also need your help financially! We are also happy to receive a donation in advance. Bank transfer to:
Recipient: Bordsteinlobby e.V.
Bank: Triodes Bank N.V. Germany
IBAN: DE41 5003 1000 1063 5670 07
See you soon!
The preparatory group of the Right to the City Forum 2025 Chemnitz
Program?
19.06. – 22.06. Stadtwirtschaft Chemnitz
We are currently working hard on the program – as soon as it is finalized, we will inform you.
But we can already reveal this much:
Arrival & Catering
In Chemnitz?
Why Chemnitz?
As a major city, Chemnitz combines problems that can also be found in other growing metropolitan regions with issues that many medium-sized cities in federal states of the former GDR are facing. Shrinkage, strong demographic change, vacancies and the right to take up space raise questions about the right to the city. Chemnitz offers space, and this space is contested. In a city that is (still) affordable, the major event of the European Capital of Culture 2025 is intended to reactivate vacancies, change the image and make the city attractive to investors. At the same time, funding for culture and social affairs is being massively cut and places are having to close, while right-wing structures and their continuity, which in some cases goes back decades, are disappearing into the background and are barely being considered.
Why 2025?
2025 is an important year in which the city will be in the spotlight: Chemnitz, the so-called “City of Modernity”, will become the “European Capital of Culture” (together with Nova Gorica/Gorizia) and thus receive international media attention. As the activist scene organizing the forum, we want to critically question this event: What is made visible at such major events and what is not? What do slogans and narratives hide about societal and social issues? And we want to ask what this means in practice: how can we use the festivalization of cities in such a way that the relevant social and ecological issues of the right to the city and the strengthening of solidarity structures come to the fore and ensure that it stays that way?
The right place in the right year to show that there are numerous initiatives in Chemnitz and beyond that are committed to the right to the city in all its dimensions. Through redistribution, a different way of doing business and social climate policy, we can counter the shift to the right. And this is not possible without participation in society for everyone, including those on a budget and those affected by racist discrimination. We can only achieve this together. So, get involved!
What is the city economy?
What is happening in Zietenpark?
As part of the Right to the City Forum, we will also design an urban intervention space: Zietenpark.
Throughout the weekend, we will enliven this space and create exchange – between the neighborhood, the forum participants and anyone else who is interested. A varied program awaits you: In addition to workshops, there will also be games, fun and practical input. The event is intended as an experiment and depends on the people who want to get actively involved and help shape it. So if you want to network, play tag in the park or let off steam creatively – come along!
About the right to the city – Forum
What is the 'right to the city'?
Initiatives from all over Germany have been meeting at the Right to the City Forum every year for 10 years. In 2025, it will take place in Chemnitz for the first time. The demand ‘Right to the City’ unites movements that campaign for a just city. In the face of ever-increasing right-wing radicalism, the climate policy rollback and ever more glaring social inequalities, resistance to this is very energy-sapping. That’s why left-wing spaces are needed to regain strength and exchange ideas within the movement. The great experiences that hundreds of activists have had in recent years have shown that the Right to the City Forum creates such a space. There is room for exchange and inspiration, controversy and discussion, eating and celebrating together and everything that initiatives need to recharge their batteries.
The forum is a good opportunity for local initiatives to discover that their problems, the strategic issues they face and the solutions they have found exist just as much elsewhere. In this way, we can not only learn from each other, but also become a strong nationwide movement that is anchored locally but is heard at all political levels. Only together are we strong!
