Social Context Channel gathers and shares the work and thoughts of artists, critical thinkers and socially engaged actors who challenge todays's sociopolitical state of things.
Cultural worker
Posted: Dec / 2014
Đuro Capor, from the local organisation “Srđ Je Naš” (Srdj is ours), presenting the initiative and activities of “Srđ Je Naš” at the Social Context conference at Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
The Citizens’ Initiative Srđ is Ours, established in 2010, struggles to preserve the Dubrovnik cultural and natural heritage, public spaces and citizens’ right to participate in decision-making processes.
In less than two years of its existence the Initiative organized a number of public happenings (public discussions, lectures, film screenings). It initiated legal actions, it made pleas to the public and competent institutions, it informed the public about the necessity of protection of nature, public interests and public spaces, it motivated the citizens to participate more actively in the decision-making processes concerning passing of the urban development plan (as well as participating in public discussions, or writing objections), it initiated an informative campaign and published two newspaper issues. The Initiative has managed to procure financial funding for its activities through the projects of the National Foundation for Civil Society Development and has won several awards like GONG (Non-Partisan Citizen’s Organisation) Award for citizens’ activism and democracy development as well as the reader’s award for the most civic-minded person of the year organised by the local weekly newspaper Dubrovački list.
Links:
facebook.com/SrdjIsOursDubrovnik | twitter.com/srdjje | index.hr | dubrovnikreferendum.com
Citizens’ Initiative
Interview with Ljubomir Grgurević and Đuro Capor about the initiative “Srđ Je Naš” (Srdj is ours).
Philosopher & Sociologist
Lecture on “Perversion of power" at the Social Context conference at Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
Artist / Director of Art Workshop Lazareti
Interview with Slaven Tolj about Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik May 2014
Artist
Performance: “Cruising”, at the Social Context conference in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
Philosopher
Lecture, "Is Spring the Shortest Season?", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Philosopher & Sociologist
Lecture on "Ignorance and the denial of the possibility of social change" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Ehnologist
Lecture on "Fishermen and ethnologists in the North – the story about how a fishing community tries to avoid being stripped of access to its resources" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Multimedia artist
Performance: "Personal statement", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Artist
Performance: "Leisure", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Tone Olaf Nielsen and Morten Goll / Curator & Artist
Lecture on "Trampoline House: Building a Refugee Justice Space with Tools from Socio-Politically Engaged Art, Migrant Activism, and the Asylum Reform Movement" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Visual artist, educator and activist
Talk on "An urban walk through the district of Nørrebro - the presence of past struggles?" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Institute for architectural research
By Architects Dinko Peračić and Miranda Veljačić
Lecture on "Platforms – cultural centres of 21st century" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Cultural worker and activist
Lecture on "Tactical networking and the Right to the City" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
