Cities for Change

The People's Plan for Glasgow is a collaboration of groups, organisations, campaigns and individuals to co-create an alternative plan for people and the city. It is a humanifesto w...

Welcome to a skill sharing and collaborative learning event hosted by the emergent 'Solitariteitsnetwerk Buurttuinen' (Solidarity network community gardens). During this online eve...

'Digital Courage' is an exploration of the influence of digital infrastructure and the platform economy on the city. What is the damage and how can it be different?

Datafication, al...

One of the most urgent questions of our times is whether economic growth will deliver well-being for all while staying within the ecological limits of our planet. A rising number o...

An economic transformation that promotes human flourishing for all on a thriving planet is urgently needed. Doughnut Economics is an important source of inspiration for an emerging...

Arie Lengkeek and Maurice Specht wrote an essay, supported by LSA, about municipal real estate as crucial to help us move beyond the logic of the market. Real estate is essential f...

How can Amsterdam initiatives connect the European Green Deal to beautiful and thriving living spaces? The New European Bauhaus initiative connects the European Green Deal to our l...

Deze online meeting gaat over het gebruik van een 'City ID' card, een soort stadspaspoort, en wat dat kan betekenen voor ongedocumenteerde migranten in de stad. 
We gaan in gesprek ...

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The 750 billion COVID-19 recovery funds are being touted as the moment of truth to accelerate the green transition in Europe -- but, is i...

Digitale Moed is een verkenning van de invloed van digitale infrastructuur en de platform-economie op de stad. Wat is de schade - en hoe kan het anders?

Dataficatie, algoritmes en A...

The Municipalist School was set up with the aim of creating a space for self-training and knowledge exchange based on different experiences of municipalism throughout Europe.

The fi...

While emissions keep on rising, party-politics are failing us in addressing the climate- and ecological crises and other systemic struggles. It is time for radical system change. A...

How do young people look at the future of this city?

We commence this special series of programmes about the Future City Economy with an event in which we give a voice to young peop...

De online expositie Digitale moed neemt de kijker mee langs de productieketen van twee casussen, Uber Eats en de basisschool, met daarin krantenknipsels, verhalen, inzichten maar o...

Het aantal nieuwe bewoners dat zich jaarlijks in Amsterdam vestigt is sinds 2015 verdubbeld. Het aantal vestigers uit het buitenland is meer dan verdubbeld. Maar Amsterdam loopt bi...

Investeringsmaatschappijen die grote aantallen appartementen kopen voor winsten op korte termijn, buy-to-let door private investeerders, de verkoop van sociale huurwoningen, korte ...

A pan-european webinar for change makers, transitioners, eco-villagers and lovers of life.

After more than a year of a global pandemic, we are experiencing health issues that go bey...

Between regenerative economies and local specificities: experiences, models, tools. This debate will be moderated by Sophie Bloemen, from Commons Network (Amsterdam, Netherlands) w...

Hoe past Amsterdam de donuteconomie toe in de praktijk? Amsterdam staat op de kaart als eerste stad die de donuteconomie in praktijk brengt. Dit model van econoom Kate Raworth bepl...

Growth of GDP has been the goal of economic policy for decades. Since the financial crisis, we've seen a new approach emerge, looking at the broader economy, centering wellbeing. H...

All across Europe, municipalist movements have rethought local governance and community engagement, by innovating institutions along with paradigms of care, social justice, partici...

To truly reshape our economy so that it acts in service to people and planet, we must transform ownership and control of our local economies so that they are regenerative and not e...

We must completely reshape our economy, from the bottom-up. From an extractive economy that depletes the earth's resources and communities, we must move to a generative and just ec...

The energy landscape is changing rapidly. The climate transition is pushing our thinking about energy democracy and energy cooperatives are growing in numbers. Energy democracy mea...

Welcoming refugees and migrants in our municipalities and cities is a chance to democratize Europe further from below: it is the cities that bear the brunt of managing migration, t...

How can we as communities and social movements reimagine and reclaim our cities, towns and villages?

For many of us, the local elections in May 2021 again provided little chance to ...

To combat climate breakdown, regenerative action is required. Degrowth criticises sustainability’s relationship to perpetual quantitative growth on a finite planet. Permaculture’s ...

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED

The session will take place in the Cities for Change Forum, a two-month online programme facilitated by the city of Amsterdam, on the 26th of May from 16.00-...

Cities around the world are turning into smooth, homogeneous places, wiped clean of anomalies and frayed edges: 'smooth cities'. All kinds of developments make public space increas...

I fondi del Recovery Fund rischiano di essere spesi seguendo obiettivi e modalità del tradizionale ricettario neoliberista: la maggior parte dei fondi pubblici saranno diretti a so...

The Covid-19 epidemic is causing crises or difficulties in many economic and social areas, while other processes are also affecting the change in our cities (climate change, energy...

Datafication, algorithms and AI shape how we live and work and impact power structures and distribution of wealth in the city. The current digital environment presents many urgent ...

The climate crisis has increasingly significant repercussions at the local level, in urban, peri-urban and rural areas. Air quality, water, energy, soil and food are becoming cruci...

In this programme we look at practical experiences with the concept of Community Wealth Building. This method is used to boost local economies in a way that is democratic and inclu...

The 750 billion COVID-19 recovery funds are being touted as the moment of truth to accelerate the green transition in Europe -- but, is it really? Powerful big polluting industries...

In deze masterclass bespreken we Panel als methode voor inclusieve participatie. We verkennen hoe de Panel methode digitale commons kan versterken. Deze masterclass wordt live gege...

Amid COVID restrictions local struggles aimed at making our cities better and fairer places to live have not gone away. During this session,speakers from Catalonia and Poland will ...

This discussion will focus on particular solutions in the field of housing policy implemented in Amsterdam (social housing, co-housing etc.) as well as the local activities of the ...

What opportunities does the Polish recovery plan offer to cities and local initiatives? Could it offer more? How did it give rise to a massive mobilisation of civil society actors ...

This Roundtable will gather organisations from several CEE and Balkan countries to discuss their experiences in election campaigns, participation in local structures of power and t...

Around the world, cities and citizens are finding local solutions to solve global problems.

In Jackson, Mississippi a strategy has been developing to fight inequality, while transfo...

If we are serious about tackling climate change, we need to keep the vested interests of the fossil fuel industry as far from our public decision makers as possible, like we did to...

The pandemic is only a dramatic symptom of the larger socio-environmental crisis caused by the global warming and the destruction of several natural habitats. This crisis is the re...

Municipal responses to migration governance vary and so do municipal institutional design and who runs the institutional machinery. This talk aims at exploring the experiences of M...

The municipalist perspective maintains a close link with housing, public heritage and territorial issues, often arising from struggles against housing speculation. Although not all...

Across the world social movements and communities are reimagining and reclaiming their cities, towns and villages through different ways of doing politics from the ground up. In Am...

Op Woensdag 2 juni zal de bijzondere documentaire ‘Vrankrix en het Amsterdamse rijk’ getoond worden, gevolgd door een Q&A met maker en regisseur Annegriet Wietsma.

Wees welkom bij o...

Im Stadtraum wird Politik gemacht: durch Gentrifizierung und Abschottung, durch autoritäre Sicherheitsmaßnahmen und Anpassung an Investment-Interessen. Und es wird Gewinn gemacht: ...

“You have to act as if it were possible to transform the world, and you have to do it all the time” - Angela Davis. The climate crisis, discrimination and sexism, housing shortage ...

Cities for Change will join the Neighbourhood Democracy Movement in exploring the new forms of local democracy that are emerging as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic. The NDM ...

In order to make the ideas of the Doughnut Economy understandable in a reality-based context, we will illuminate the four lenses of the Doughnut Economy in four talks. The kick-off...

A few months before the elections in September 2021, we want to discuss the chances for a municipalist platform in Berlin in the framework of the pan-European Cities for Change For...

As part of the Cities for Change forum happening now in Amsterdam (and virtually), an opportunity for UK-based radical municipalist movements to come together and talk. So far Glas...

The event aims at discussing Portuguese case studies on citizen participation for new models of governance and public space. The examples from Amsterdam will frame the discussion o...

As part of the Cities for Change Forum, Fréquence Commune and the 99 van Amsterdam are organizing a European Francophone meeting on Monday 14 June from 8pm to 10pm, with Atelier Po...

Neustart Potsdam is a local festival for the social and ecological transformation of Potsdam in Germany. We use this event as a kick-off to create long lasting relationships and ne...

Europe is disintegrating and losing its soul: DiEM25 is born to stop this process, and to enable us, the Europeans, to regain democratic political control over the decisions that a...