http://smu-research.net Self Made Urbanity Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:19:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A film by Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler 94 min. / 2010 “We have to decide for ourselves what we want. We are the ones who know about our needs and what is happening in our community”, Omayra Peréz explains confidently. She wants to convince her community, located on the hillside of ... http://smu-research.net/archives/comuna-under-construction Il Messaggero ROMA (21 febbraio) - Una task force di mezzo migliaio di agenti tra vigili urbani, poliziotti in assetto antisommossa e carabinieri. Accordi già presi con sei residence. E le ruspe pronte a motori accesi. Inizierà da martedì mattina l’operazione di sgombero e di bonifica dell’Idroscalo di Ostia. L’intervento, originariamente previsto ... http://smu-research.net/archives/idroscalo-martedi-lo-sgombero dopo il trasloco sigilli al campo nomadi. Chiude l'area che ospitava 600 persone: ruspe al lavoroa mezzogiorno il sindaco Alemanno ha chiuso i cancelli ROMA - Un silenzio irreale. Rotto soltanto dal rumore delle ruspe che entrano in azione per abbattere le ultime baracche. Al di là del cancello del «Casilino 900», il ... http://smu-research.net/archives/casilino-900-via-le-ultime-famiglie ZALAB e OFF!CINE presentano un film di Andrea Segre con la fotografia di Luca Bigazzi Neda è una signora romana di 50 anni. Una "romana de Roma". Nel senso che è cresciuta negli anni '60 nel cuore della capitale, a due passi dal Colosseo. Oggi però Neda non vive più nel ... http://smu-research.net/archives/magari-le-cose-cambiano text by Vladan Jeremic and Rena Rädle Antiziganism and Class Racism in Europe by Vladan Jeremic and Rena Rädle, April 2009 The Roma have a long history of migrations that repeatedly brought repression to their people over the centuries. European countries began introducing laws against migrating peoples (i.e. nomads, travelers) ... http://smu-research.net/archives/antiziganism-and-class-racism-in-europe produced by Biro Beograd Short documentary about the protests due to the demolishing of the Roma settlement at Block 67 in New Belgrade, Serbia, in April 2009. http://www.archive.org/details/BELLEVILLE http://smu-research.net/archives/belleville By Abraham Cruzvillegas, 2009 Through his interest in autoconstrucción ("self-construction"), Abraham Cruzvillegas explores economies of the makeshift, the handmade and the recycled. His recent work gravitates toward an examination of his childhood home and the neighborhood of Ajusco, a district in the south of Mexico City founded by migrants who, like ... http://smu-research.net/archives/autoconstruccion-the-film AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "POST-CAPITALIST CITY" IN PULA International conference under the title "Post-capitalist City" was held from 14. to 16. August in Pula. Fourteen European groups presented their work in the context of political reading of the city and new forms of production emerging in different spaces. More: http://postcapitalistcity.blog.hr/ Fotostreaming of Conference: ... http://smu-research.net/archives/report Reguarding: Conference on Post-capitalist City,  Pula - Croatia, 14.-16.8.2009 Before the splitting of the Self Made City working group we were invited as co- founder of the Self Made City project. This is the reason because at this conference we are still announced as Self Made City. At the conference we will present ... http://smu-research.net/archives/self-made-city-is-urbanxchange http://postcapitalistcity.blog.hr/ The city is the space where the reproduction of social, political and economic forms of life takes place and where these forms of life confront instrumental political power or political diagonal. This reproduction of forms of life represents the central site of exploitation as well as of resistance. Resistance is ... http://smu-research.net/archives/conference-on-post-capitalist-city