To mark the opening of the Agency, the concept of expropriation will be examined from various critical perspectives. In addition to a tour of the exhibition "Expropriation: History of a Contested Concept", a panel discussion will provide context to current political debates and struggles around the democratisation of property relations. Sabine Nuss, an expert on property under capitalism, will talk about the relationship between property, exploitation, and freedom. Together with Manuela Zechner and activists from the initiative "RWE&Co (Energiekonzerne) Enteignen" (“Expropriate RWE&Co (Energy Firms)”), she will discuss communalisation as an emancipatory alternative that allows for re-appropriation. The panellists will focus in particular on fair and social distribution in the areas of care work and energy supply.

Speakers:

Sabine Nuss
lives in Berlin as a freelance author, publicist, presenter and podcast host, and is the editor and author of various books on the ideology, genesis and practice of private property, natural relations and digitalisation in capitalism, and has been a fellow at the Center for Social Critique at Humboldt University in Berlin since 2025 with a research focus on socialisation.

Manuela Zechner
works in feminist research, mediation and activism and is co-founder of the Common Ecologies School. She produces the podcast Earthcare Fieldcast, published the book "Commoning Care and Collective Power" in 2021, and is currently a postdoc at the Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen.

Justus Henze
studied social economics and urban studies in Hamburg and Berlin. He is active in Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen and co-organized the 2022 Socialization Conference. He works at communia on the topic of socialization of the energy transition.

To round off the opening, there will be a music programme(Forum Klub) with DJ Travella, Babilonska, Toupaz and Olgica.