Sometimes you need an enemy?
Hi Eldariases,
thanks for sharing this. Im thinking about how Prinzessinengarten in Berlin went from being a hyperlocal project into a very active node in an international network experimenting with ways to democratise the use and planning of urban space. I may be wrong, but it was the city threatening to sell the land on which the garden stood that made a lot of people more engaged/aware of the global context. And I suppose this is the case for a lot of initiatives. you do not look up beyond the immediate until pushed by some factor beyond your control.
Here I imagine that newcomers arriving in Belgium from different parts of the world can play an important role in injecting “beyond local” perspectives. Maybe this #lote5 workshop could be of interest: https://edgeryders.eu/en/lote5/collaborative-inclusion-how-migrants-residents-collaboration-can