URBAN TALK
Tuesday, 20.05.2025, 6:30 p.m. I IfA Forum
Kollektiv Orangotango - This Is Not an Atlas
kollektiv orangotango was founded in 2008. Since then it has been constantly developing through a network of critical geographers, friends and activists who deal with questions regarding space, power and resistance. With our geographical activism, we seek to support processes and oppositional actors who instigate social change by prefiguring social alternatives. We conduct emancipatory educational work as well as concrete political and artistic interventions. These are supposed to enforce reflections on and changes of social conditions. Through workshops, publications, mappings, excursions, and creative interventions within public space, we collectively learn how to read space and how to initiate emancipatory processes from below. By sticking to the traditions of activist research, we connect theoretical reflections and concrete actions.
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Tuline Gülgönen is an independent researcher and popular educator working at the intersection of urban sociology and critical childhood studies. She develops collective and activist research projects including counter-mapping, video and sound. The sensory and emotional dimensions of urban experiences, and more broadly, the relationship between the body and the environment in relation to social and environmental justice, are at the heart of her practice. Much of her projects have been developed in Mexico and Berlin. She is a member of kollektiv orangotango.
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