Propositions against real-estate and urban violence in Barcelona

This kind of violence provoked by the “free market and controlled by the Administration through its urban transformation plans, has led to a devastation of the urban net that produces displacements, evictions and the kidnapping of public spaces.

In this context of urban and real-estate violence, the means of communications and social actions are not enough: the idea is to transform the habitat issue into a political and social conflict that impulses a deep debate about how to face the fight related to territory and municipality. From the collective arguments of groups of neighbors, a fighting platform is constituted in order to fight against real-estate violence by realizing occasional activities. Nevertheless, these activities transcend the specific and become a lab of ideas and propositions of actions.

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HIC thematic priorities

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