Resurgent Cities: Activating the Local

As part of the Resurgent Cities Forum this May, organized by the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative and Urban Front, we invite you to a keynote evening Resurgent Cities: Activating the Local on May 27th at De Hillevliet in Rotterdam.

Join us Tuesday May 27th
Doors open: 18:45 | Start 19:00 | closing 22:00
Location: De Hillevliet, Hillevliet 90, Rotterdam

On registration: get or buy tickets for the evening via this link.
*This event is open for all*

About the evening
Resurgent Cities confronts the global crisis of neoliberal urban development where displacement, gentrification, and speculative markets threaten communities. This event, anchored by renowned geographer David Harvey, whose work has fueled decades of struggles for the Right to the City, brings together groundbreaking projects of grassroot resistance and radical imagination from across the globe.

Community organizers, neighborhood activists, city administrators, and preservation and housing advocates from Quito, Mexico City, and Cairo will share hyper-local tactics of defiance and repair from tenant-led battles for housing justice in Mexico City and grassroots cooperative infrastructures in Quito, to reimagining neighborhoods in Cairo via a powerful combination of cultural preservation and rebuilding of infrastructures. They prove that another urban future is not only necessary, but already in motion.

Together, these presentations amplify a transnational call: cities must be reclaimed and shaped by those who inhabit them. Join us as we chart collective strategies for self-determination in our cities—from policy to pavement—by forging cooperative economies, citizen-led governance, and social and cultural infrastructures rooted in justice.

Speakers include:
David Harvey, May al-Ibrashy, Davarian Baldwin, Silvia Emanuelli, Ola Hassanain, Sandra Lopez, Annet van Otterloo, Miguel Robles Duran, Ana Rodríguez And

Moderated by: Laura Raicovich


This evening is funded by:
Creative Industries Fund NL, Gemeente Rotterdam, Cultuur en Campus Putselaan, de European Union and the Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie