Negotiating Space

We question the current order of the city. By seeing the city as something we are constantly recreating and establishing - there is an opening for us to affect the city.


This is the very foundation of Change.


It starts with seeing the city as a City of Possibilities rather than a fixed state that we can do nothing about. It is a constant negotiation, the negotiation of space, of money, of life, of borders, of access, of control, of power.

But the negotiators are always the adults, even though the future of the city concerns all, and the negotiation is always happening on adults terms - fixating the view that some people’s ideas have more value, are more ‘realistic’ and meaningful than others. 
That it is more beneficial to have a casino than a youth center - but beneficial for whom? And when?


We do not acknowledge these terms as the truth, we do not buy the idea of the city’s main goal being a monetary one. 


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