Hi,
at the TACIT FUTURES conference the Berliner Gazette
team invited
participants and guests to donate for a
refugee project at an emergency shelter in Germany's capital. This was supported by a variety of publishing houses such as AK Press, transcript, Diaphanes, Passagen, Merve and Meson
Press.
The
publishers donated copies of books that related to our
conference themes: migration, border policy, globalization, refugee rights, digital
politics and so forth. In exchange for
donations, conference guests could acquired these books. The money that we collected went into a
refugee project: The printing of a photo brochure, that is 180 pages long and contains more than 100 photos
which show the approx. 200
people of the community of this emergency
shelter – refugees
and so called "welcoming citizens" alike.
Here an
image of a spread inside the brochure, which came from the
printing press the other day:
Usually
invisiblized in the public
realm (of mainstream media), this brochure enables the community to obtain a "visible face". The photos in this brochure show a community that came into
being literally overnight in a school gym which
housed hundreds of people young and old, male and female, from
more than 20 countries – a place at which also countless
community activities were autonomously organized.
For the
moment, the brochure's
distribution is limited to the emergency shelter community. But
we would like to continue working on it in order to make it available to a broader audience in the form of a public book. If you want to support this (e.g. in
form of donations), please write us an
email!
Kind
regards,
Krystian