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KRAX 2009 :: OUT OF CONTROL ::

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For third year, KRAX organises the Jornadas KRAX, from the 20th to the 23rd of May 2009 in Barcelona.
The KRAX Jornadas are an international meeting of creative citizen initiatives. The KRAX Jornadas visualise and connect different independent initiatives who develop new formats of political, cultural and economic organisation and participation in the city. During the 4 days of the Jornadas, groups of 8 different cities meet in Barcelona to share and to debate, among them and with initiatives from Barcelona, creative experiences of political thought and action.

We understand these new ways of independent participation, emerging from the cracksin the city, as the “collective urban creativity”: practices that generate knowledge, new ways to do and propose alternatives in response to a unitary interpretation of the city and its complexity.

From KRAX we want to compile, connect and to inform at a horizontal level these new visions and practices on the city, culture and politics, to share, empower and to stimulate the work of these independent initiatives.

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The first Jornadas KRAX, in April 2007, tried to define that collective urban creativity that emerged in response to urban conflicts, showing the capacity and potential of the cracks as ruptures of the hegemonic discourse and as places of citizen appropriation. In the second meeting, in April 2008, we decided to focus on those independent groups and spaces where that collective creativity becomes common, where new formats of debate, participation and management of the collective are rehearsed and experienced.
More than 40 initiatives have passed through both editions of the Jornadas, meeting, knowing, sharing, debating…

For these Jornadas KRAX 2009 we want to continue with this collective questioning, guided by several concepts of the social processes and relations, as autonomy, power-to, self-institution, commons…
We know the ways we have of acting: multiple, heterogenous, experimental, proposing alternatives… We also know the formats of creation, production, management, communication of knowledge, our forms of free cooperation. Now, and especially in these times, we want to ask on the capacity of transformation of that “diffuse power”that we own, how to open and multiply the power of the critical social networks, how to exceed the critic and go beyond it, how to empower the diverse citizen proposals, that power-to that already exists and that is outlined from different cracks and different contexts, how to make that latent power manifest…

In order to work these questions, we will invite creative initiatives of several cities (Iconoclasistas from Buenos Aires, Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry, AulaAbierta from Granada, The Change You Want to See from New York…). With all these initiatives, and along with collectives and people of Barcelona, we want to ask ourselves, to debate and to know different definitions and realities of these new forms of political creation that are arising and showing possible changes.

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The Jornadas KRAX program includes workshops, presentations by guest initiatives, guided tours, meetings with local initiatives and a Documentation Centre (KRAX Cargo) with the material compiled through the research process.

*: KRAX comes from the concept “cracks in the city”.
KRAX is an initiative of City Mine(d) Barcelona.

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PROGRAMME:

»» Guided Visit: Barceloneta
The neighbours themselves show and explain the urbanistic and social change this popular neighbourhood is going through.
This activity is free, of course, but with limited places. To participate in this visit, please register sending an email to krax(at)citymined.org.

»» Collective Mapping Workshop: Barceloneta
The Collective Mapping Workshop will be in charge of Iconoclasistas (Buenos Aires, http://iconoclasistas.com.ar), with the participation of neighbours of Barceloneta and people interested in the current situation of the neighbourhood. The Workshop will be from the 18th’till the 29thof May. Contact us at krax(at)citymined.org for more information!

»» Work Sessions / Debates
KRAX wants to make the best of all the knowledge and experience from different urban contexts that will come together at the Jornadas to debate the strengths, weaknesses and legitimacy of autonomous citizen’s groups as tools for urban creation, debate and transformation.
Limited places: register sending an email to krax(at)citymined.org.

Session 1: “A potential glossary”:From different approaches and realities, we will work towards a common language around concepts like autonomy, capacity, power-to, consciousness of power or self-institution.
Moderators: Javier Rodrigo (Artibarri), Jim Segers (City Mine(d) London).

Session 2: “Online cooperation and self-organization”: we will approach the collaborative spaces as possibilities to improve the coordination, collective work, transferring of knowledge and sharing of resources between citizens’ movements. How to structure a decentralized network? How to organize and to invigorate it to generate the desired interaction and creation?
Presentation of n-1.cc: máquina de guerra tecnocomunicativa, by Toret.

»» Guests presentations
We do not think that the guests can be taken as “models”: we understand them as examplesand citizen’s experiences, diverse ways of thinking and doing, but sharing their interest in creating and fostering an independent and citizen public sphere.

- Iconoclasistas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, http://iconoclasistas.com.ar
- The Change You Want to See, New York, U.S., http://thechangeyouwanttosee.com
- AulaAbierta, Granada, Spain, http://aulabierta.info
- Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry, Toronto, Canada, http://tsci.ca

web: http://krax-jornadas.citymined.org/

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