Organising Infrastructures: Seizing the Means of Everyday Life

Welcome to a two day gathering bringing together cultural practitioners and organisations sharing knowledge and experience of organising otherwise through the means of aesthetics, spatial configurations and infrastructure.

What role might cultural houses and other urban commons have in times of increased financialisation and privatisation? When the present has given up on the future, what might we learn from the unactivated potentials in the futures of the past?

During the two days we will unpack various histories of collective organizing as well as sharing experiences and attempts of organizing otherwise in the present. Through lectures, radio transmissions and joint conversations we will explore various infrastructural attempts to create spaces where new subjectivities, relations and experiences might emerge. The programme brings together experiences from Sweden, former Yugoslavia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Photo: Ministry of Space

Weekly meeting of users of Inex Film, squatted social-cultural center in Belgrade, 2011-2015

Participants include among others Marko Aksentijević (Ministry of Space, Belgrade), Hedvig Wiezell (Folkets Husby),  Sebastian Dahlqvist & Elof Hellström (Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus), Magnus Ericson (IASPIS), Dubravka Sekulić (Royal College of Art, London), Nazem Tahvilzadeh (Södertörn University), Sofia Wiberg (KTH Tekniska Högskolan).

The full programme will be published soon

Organising Infrastructures: Seizing the Means of Everyday Life is a collaboration between IASPIS, Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus. The event is organised as part of ‘Practice Matters’, a project exploring design, craft, architecture, and spatial practice and its ability to act in relation to present urgent issues of crisis and conflicts.