Call for Workshops 2025
Want to share your knowledge or skills with others?
We look forward to your contribution to the City for Everyone Camp 2025!
Our camp this year will take place from 24 May to 1 June 2025 in St. Marx in Vienna in cooperation with the initiative St. Marx für Alle. For one week, a space for education, networking and exchange between various civil society groups and interested individuals will be created there. We invite you and your ideas for workshops, presentations, group discussions, games or skill sharing – the more interactive the better.
The theme of this year’s event is ‘City for Everyone’. It is all about struggles for commonly created and consumption-free spaces and against gentrification and other forms of exclusion and displacement. We are locally supporting the initiative St. Marx für Alle, which is campaigning for the participatory design of the public space of the former cattle slaughterhouse and against the construction of another mega event hall.
City for Everyone Camp
participatory urban planning, city from below, right to city, ecological city, resistant city, appropriation of open spaces, commoning, gentrification, displacement, public welfare vs profit interests
Together we would like to spend a week taking a critical look at urban forms of displacement or exclusion, at processes of gentrification and commodification, as well as inecological, exclusive and profit-driven urban planning from above. We want to address how forms of social inequality and discrimination are condensed and reproduced in cities, how urban planning is often racist or ableist, how homeless or people on the move are deliberately spatially excluded, how lively neighborhoods or public spaces are systematically sacrificed to profit interests, why more and more people can no longer afford their rent while there are endless vacancies, how neoliberal urban planning is linked to individualization, isolation, the destruction of solidarity neighborhood relationships and a general societal shift to the right.
At the same time, we want to look at forms of urban resistance and the appropriation of public spaces in urban areas – from residents’ initiatives and interim use to direct action and occupations. Finally, we want to focus on the possibilities of collective, solidarity and ecological organization and ways of living in cities – such as people’s kitchens, district unions, housing projects, social centers, socialized supply centers and so on. We want to focus on the City for Everyone.
We are moving away thematically from our previous typical focus as a climate camp. However, these topics are important to us and we see many connections between aforementioned dynamics and the broader societal shift to the right and authoritarianism. In this respect, we see the camp as a contribution to a solidarity and collectively organized society in which open spaces for climate activism are preserved and the necessity of a social-ecological transformation is recognized. Even if your expertise may not lie directly in the field of City for Everyone, we encourage you to get creative and link your topics to our core theme!
We reject conspiracy theories and discriminatory content of any kind. We especially want to encourage people who are particularly affected by discrimination in our society (e.g. FLINTA* people¹, BIPoC2, migrants and people with disabilities) to actively participate in the climate camp and prioritize submissions from members of marginalized groups.
The workshops are scheduled for 2-3 hours and will take place at locations on the camp that can accommodate approximately 20-30 people. Traveling expenses will be reimbursed and an expense allowance is possible. The camp languages are mainly English and German, but we are happy to receive applications in all languages! Please discuss this with us in good time so that we can organize a translation if necessary.
Submit your ideas by 5th April 2025 here: https://survey.klimacamp.at/index.php/129789?lang=en
Do you have any questions/concerns? Write to us at: programm@klimacamp.at
¹ FLINTA* stands for women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and a-gender people.
2 BIPoC stands for people who do not belong to the white majority society and are racially discriminated against because of this (from the English: ‘black, indigenous, and other people of colour’).