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jrepin@joindiaspora.com
Jure Repinc

The Internet Has Gentrified — Here’s What We Can Do About It

"Gentrification doesn’t just describe struggles for power and authority in urban neighborhoods, it also describes struggles over online communities — and it can help us think more clearly about the politics and possibilities of digital technologies. As the urban studies scholar Sharon Zukin put it, “gentrification makes inequality more visible.” It’s a contest between groups of people with different levels of power and resources."

The Internet Has Gentrified — Here’s What We Can Do About It
https://thereboot.com/the-internet-has-gentrified-heres-what-we-can-do-about-it/

#internet #technology #gentrification #inequality

The Internet Has Gentrified — Here's What We Can Do About It - The Reboot

Gentrification is a useful idea for understanding the internet’s problems, as well as the need for alternative models that are open and fair.

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renzol@diaspora.stemy.me
Renzol

Contre une gentrification d'entreprise: Le canal vu d'en bas (épisode 1)

L'association bruxelloise Inter-Environnement lance un questionnement sur les conséquences pour la population d'une densification de la ville par son tissu industriel. En effet, le canal qui traverse la ville a toujours fait partie de son tissu économique, mais son lotissement de plus en plus intense rebat les carte de la politique urbanistique.

Cette première capsule vous fera découvrir le rôle logistique du canal comme colonne vertébrale d’un axe de production, de transport et distribution de marchandises utile à la ville et ses habitant.e.s. Une fonction aujourd’hui sérieusement fragilisée par la pression immobilière

https://videos.domainepublic.net/videos/watch/b1fa0a2b-5c6b-4361-aa49-707a32c7c143

#Interenvironnement #ieb #Bruxelles #Belgique #urbanisation #gentrification

Inter-Environnement Bruxelles - Habitant·es et associations pour une meilleure qualité de vie à Bruxelles.

floriancramer@pod.thing.org
Florian Cramer

Are artist-run spaces now being created/simulated by real estate developers?

And on top of that, not just any art space, but one that claims to be "a bottom-up non-institution" that does "self assemble and strategically address societal and ecological justice"? [Note the question mark, because I am not yet 100% sure yet whether my suspicions are true.]

In Rotterdam-Delfshaven, right next to where I live, the real estate development companies Dura Vermeer & Dudok Groep are turning a former factory territory into a new upmarket housing complex, as part of the larger Merve-Vierhaven real estate development/gentrification project. This complex, right at the entry of Dakpark, will called Diepenveen. As part of this complex, an old factory building will house a "club of makers and thinkers which will form a mini society together with the neighbors" (description on the website of the real estate developers), respectively "a new experimental platform for contemporary culture" [description on the website of the space] called "Huidenclub". Huidenclub states that it "will launch on 1 July 2021 with its first theme addressing how as a bottom-up non-institution it can self assemble and strategically address societal and ecological justice."

The launch will be during Art Rotterdam Week. Announcements can be found on art/culture websites such as WeOwnRotterdam and artrabbit.com, but also on real estate websites like wonen360.nl and Dura Vermeer's own website.

The artists listed for the opening exhibition are:
Pauline Boudry + Renate Lorenz, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Andrea Éva Győri, Patricia Kaersenhout, Janis Rafa, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Jennifer Tee, Kubilay Mert Ural, Laurids Gallée, Sabine Marcelis, Tim Mastik, Phil Procter, Anna Aagaard Jensen, Théophile Blandet, Jonas Lutz, Supertoys Supertoys, Pim Top, Johan Viladrich + Lauriane Heim

The website of "Huidenclub.tmp" looks like that of a contemporary art space, but has a contact adress of the P.R. firm Coebergh which works, according to its homepage, for "brands, (inter)national market leaders and innovators" (which include the FrieslandCampina agro-industrial company, Auping and Rituals).

The driving forces behind the Huidenclub seem to be the art consultancy Liv Vaisberg and the architect Chantal Schoenmakers whose bureau IWT.IO lists Dura Vermeer and Dudok Groep as its clients](http://www.iwt.io/who).

#art #gentrification #rotterdam

floriancramer@pod.thing.org
Florian Cramer

Some notes and questions on the documentary W1555 – Conversations with an Accidental Community

  • Why did the documentary stay so firmly within the bubble of W1555 residents, or, to be more precise:

  • Why was the neighborhood of W1555 only referred to in the third person? Why were there no conversations with people in living in Oud Charlois as neighbors of W1555? Why was, apparently, not the whole neighborhood invited for the screening of the film? (That became obvious on the second screening night when a man angrily complained about the noise on the street.)

  • Why the lack of reflection on class and race in the film (both in the interview statements included in the film and in the selection of people given a voice in it) when the subject matter - social housing in Rotterdam - has so much to do with it? Why no (historical and present-day) research into the politics of housing in Rotterdam South? Why no reflection on “creative class” gentrification and the larger political agenda behind it (among others, through the City Council and the National Program Rotterdam South with its declared agenda of ending the so-called “Un-Dutch problems” of Rotterdam South)? With more than one hour running time of the film, there would have been enough room for digging deeper.

  • Why no appearance, and not even a mention, of the people who put so much work, heart, caretaking and emotional labor into the Wolphaertstraat community, like Kamiel Verschuren? Why no appearance or mention of people who were centrally involved in W1555 but quit because they were critical of its politics, like Jeroen Jongeleen?

  • Why no questions or research about what happened to the former precarious inhabitants of Wolphaertstraat - such as the drug addicts who were repeatedly mentioned by the interview partners? Why that indifference by everyone?

My video [made from more than 2000 high-speed still photos] of the open air screening/premiere of W1555 – Conversations with an Accidental Community, a documentary by Honey Jones-Hughes on the artist-run housing project W1555 in Rotterdam, Oud-Charlois, Wolphaertstraat, screened at Charlois Speciaal festival August 15 2020:
https://vimeo.com/448329128

#art #housing #artist-run #Rotterdam #Netherlands #gentrification #socialhousing