More often than not, it is invisible in urban planning discourse: friendship. Yet friendship is an important tactic for survival in the patriarchal city as a collective, everyday performance of shaping urban space. The collective Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam (“Agents for Urban Disobedience”) investigates forms of urban friendship. What defines them as a practice of collective resistance? To what extent do they destabilize patriarchal power structures through radical intimacy? And how might a city (or its design) look that is based on friendship?

A discursive evening with the interdisciplinary and independent urban research collective Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam from Hamburg
Curated by Rivka Saltiel