EPISODE 4: Urban Planning, Housing, and Independent Culture | hbs Belgrade - 25 Years of Meddling

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Episode 4 is the longest and was the most complex to assemble because it covers what has become our office’s flagship topic - urban planning, housing, and the commons. Thinking about urban commons began as a series of talks in the early 2010s, and a publication on what kind of city we should strive for. This gave rise to an ecosystem of partner organizations dealing with these topics in various ways, and a sprawling back catalog of progressive and imaginative work on independent culture, collaborative models of governance over common goods, beyond the hegemonic paradigm of nationalism and private ownership. Work on independent culture in particular has proven adept at breaking through that paradigm, enabling a cross-pollination of ideas between artists from Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, as well as other neighboring countries. More recently, this work has been directed at reaching out directly to citizens impacted by unwanted urban projects, providing them with urban planning expertise necessary to resist and make their voices heard through official channels.