UPON is a series of talks that reflects on urban practices from an inclusive, multilingual, context bound and feminist perspective. As a platform for reciprocal exchange and collective research about urban practices in an international context, UPON connects artists, urbanists and activists around the world.
UPON feminist practices for climate justice focuses on (eco)feminist practices that enable the necessary and fair transformation of communities towards climate justice.
Which strategies can we learn from initiatives taking action for the protection of urban ecosystems, regenerative community practices and gender-orientated resistance? How can we develop social conducts that repel extractivist models in favour of caring patterns based on interspecific maintenance and interdependency?
This year’s talks with Nashin Mahtani from Yayasan Peta Bencana (Jakarta) [EN] / Padmapani L. Perez former lead strategist for Creative Collaboration from Agam Agenda and former team Carissa Pobre, Maria Faciolince (Quezon City) [EN] / Geneviève Kinet, Leila Bensalem from Marais Wiels Moeras (Brussels) [FR] / Laura Viviana Cala Mejía from Somos Bosque (Bogotà) [ES] as well as the interactive movement practice with Martha Hincapié Charry (Berlin) [EN] present international practitioners working towards interconnected societies beyond consumption.
The mini symposium took place on the 6th of September 2023 and was hosted at Floating University: a nature-culture learning site in Berlin Kreuzberg, run by the association Floating Berlin e.V.
Full interviews here:
https://www.urbanepraxis.berlin/publication/international-network-upon-talks-2023/
UPON is curated and organised by Lorene Blanche Goesele (transformation architect and transdisciplinary artist) and Valeria Schwarz (artist, curator, art mediator and mother), kindly supported by the team UP office.
