In the early evening of Sunday, August 28th, we will go through the public space of Taranto, in conclusion of the CONVOCATORIA ECOLOGISTA. We would like our practices to be shaped not only out of our debates, but also out of the collective making of new experiences of the space.

The ecological struggle aims to open itself to a deep intertwining with new practices of space-crossing. Space becomes a dimension where to experiment renewed class and gender relationships. To embrace visions that question the urban and extra-urban life throughout new models. In the desolation of the city space as a site of profit, militarization and social exclusion, we will try to build out of the ashes of Capitalism towards a new relationship with our territories.

Taranto represents an example among many others of a collectivity deprived of space. From the denial of recreational and pedagogical frames for children in the Tamburi neighborhood, to the closure of a whole area of the seaside – belonging to international military navy bases. Starting from that, the reflection on the right to the city, to self-organized space, to the common good, to the people’s decision-making on the urbanistic and ecological processes meets the methods of the cartographic experience as a collective and communal laboratory.

We aim to create a joyous parade, where rage and struggle can take on a new meaning for rebuilding class and social relationships. The diversity of the social and territorial actors joining the CONVOCATORIA will strengthen a convergence of imageries, which – besides their differences – are systemically connected to the marginality of the spaces we live in.