Cultural andArtistic Ecologiesof Organizing

2026’s European Summer Academy will investigate the organizational conditions and capacities of urban cultural production in times of budget cuts and political antagonisms. How can cultural and artistic milieus, scenes, organizations and sites respond to economic and political struggles? How do urban cultural ecologies—its spaces, atmospheres, infrastructures – change under such conditions?

With the city of Berlin as empirical site, participants will conduct fieldwork on cultural sites, organizations, and collectives, gathering and exhibiting stories and analyses of urban cultural ecologies.