Nomadisch Grün (Green Nomad) launched Prinzessinnengärten (Princess Gardens) as a pilot project in the summer of 2009 on Moritzplatz in Berlin Kreuzberg, a site that had been a wasteland for more than half a century. Along with friends, activists and neighbors, the group cleared trash, built transportable organic vegetable gardens and harvested the first fruits of their labor. Source : Photos de Google Earth (Moritzplatz Berlin 2006/2012) Imagine a future where every available space in big cities is used to allow new green spaces to flourish. Green spaces that residents create themselves and use to produce fresh and healthy food. This would result in increased biological diversity, reduced CO2 emissions and a better microclimate. These spaces would foster a sense of community and the exchange of a wide variety of skills and forms of knowledge, and help people lead more sustainable lives. They would constitute a kind of miniature utopia, a place where a new urban lifestyle can emerge, where people can work together, relax, communicate and enjoy locally produced vegetables. In the future, more and more people will live in cities rather than rural areas. The city will therefore become the decisive place for the development of more sustainable modes of eating, living and traveling. The city of the future should be a pleasant and climate-friendly place to live, where everything is done to preserve our natural resources. Prinzessinnengärten is a new place for urban learning. It’s the place where locals can come together to experiment and learn more about organic food production, biodiversity and climate protection. This space will help them adapt to climate change and become familiar with healthy eating, sustainable living and a future-oriented urban lifestyle. With this project, Nomadisch Grün intends to increase the biological, social and cultural diversity of the neighborhood and pave the way for a new way of living together in the city. Text Source : https://prinzessinnengarten.net/about/

Sarai began work in 2000 on issues of media, urban life, and the public domain, at a time when such issues were hardly on the horizon in India. In addition, Sarai brought together academics and practitioners in a new dialogue and collaboration. Sarai was initiated by Ravi Vasudevan, Ravi Sundaram , both faculty at CSDS; and the Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta). Sarai’s early research foci on urbanization, media life, and information are now part of any serious thinking about the contemporary. Since its inception, Sarai has initiated research projects on media urbanism, Cybermohalla, critiques of intellectual property, free software, art practice and the public realm, language and the city, and many others. It has supported unique independent fellowship programmes, and held a host of events including conferences, workshops, and performances. Like all experimental research initiatives in India, Sarai has seen cycles of expansion and contraction, involving the dispersion of some nodes and the emergence of new sites and publics. Sarai’s current projects address the larger themes of media archeology, infrastructure, data and law. Sarai has generated regular publications. These include the widely circulated Sarai Reader series, graphic novels, the urban classic Trickster City, and researcher broadsheets. Practice based works have also emerged from Sarai’s fellowship projects and the Media Lab. Sarai is the home of the academic journal BioScope. This is a blind peer-reviewed journal focusing on film and media studies, with an additional interest in image and sound practices Source text Sources images Saria.net

Noailles Debout The association aims at cultural production, heritage creation and participation of the inhabitants in the definition of urban policies in terms of development, social and cultural life and the expression and circulation of visions, popular knowledge and non-dominant ideas. text source Photo by Noailles Debout Photo by Jean De Peña / Noailles debout Photo by Jean De Peña / Noailles standing Photo by Noailles Standing

Echo Park Film Center (established 2001) and the EPFC Collective (launched 2022) provide all-ages community film/video workshops, screenings, resources and residencies in Los Angeles and around the world. The EPFC Collective is a fluid and ever-evolving multi-generational, multi-cultural working group that came together in 2022 with open hearts to share an array of skills, experiences, and interests, united in our passionate belief in the power and joy of collaborative creative practice to support and strengthen community. Source images & texte EPFC COLLECTIVE