Program for SQEK Berlin meeting, March 2011
Squatting Europe Kollective Meeting (SQEK) March 29-31, New Yorck in Bethanien, Berlin
The transnational Squatting Europe Kollective (SQEK) is a group of people dealing in the area between science and activism with squatting and urban movements. We want to share and discuss experiences in the different cities, and find ways to cooperat in theory and practice. We welcome all participation: squattingeurope [at] listas.nodo50.org

Program:
Tuesday, March 29
1pm-4pm – Governance and discourse about squatting; Dominant discourses on squatting in UK; Squats and urban governance in Paris; The Right to the City: To use or not to use urban space – records from Amsterdam and Düsseldorf
4pm-7pm – Database project: Italy/Rome – Netherlands/Amsterdam – Towards a database of squats in Madrid
Wednesday, March 30
1pm-4pm – Transfer: Squatters, places, cultures, tactics – How things move inside movements
7:30pm, Mehringhof – Public Meeting: Current Situation of Squatting in Europe
Thursday, March 31
1pm-4pm – How things are linked – from squatters to politics – A trial of squatters in Paris in 1955 – Between political opportunities and strategic choices: The protest campaign against eviction of CPO Experia in Catania (Sicily) – Configurations of squatting, especially conservational squatting – The influence of squatter movements on urban renewal and politics in Barcelona and Berlin
4pm-7pm – Without ending... House Magic: Circulating movement information in the sphere of art – Legality of squatting – Socio-legal framework for squatting in Spain

manifesto:
www.miguelangelmartinez.net/IMG/pdf/2009_SQEK__7_Dec_.pdf

notes from SQEK. London. June 24-27, 2010 at:
https://sites.google.com/site/housemagicbfc/about/sqek-london-june-24-27-2010-notes

New Yorck in the Bethanien
http://www.yorck59.net/