Various collectives and individuals were invited to share their reflections and practices related to collective ownership of land and space: Karin Christof explores the importance of autonomous urban spaces for living, working, and socialising, and the evolving role of citizens in providing these (semi) public services; Natasha Hulst on community land trust, transforming our relationship to land and each other; the Zapatismo Study Group brings texts to read collectively from the revolutionary Zapatista through which we can (re)imagine in and around the possibility of the Commons/El Común; and Mathijs van de Sande on communalism as a democratic repertoire in the Situationist movements of the 1960s, the European squatters’ movements in the 1970s and 1980s and contemporary municipalism.
As part of the Teach-In we screened Direct Action (2024) by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell, on the life rhythm of the farmers and activist community in ZAD Notre-Dame-des-Landes. This is the place where they successfully opposed the building of an airfield by building collective life on and with the land — a revolution that they put into practice every day. It is possible to reclaim the power to act
Concept: Working Group Land, Lumbung Practice
Initiative: denisse vega de santiago, Natascha Haagenbeek, rori
Hosted by: De Appel
