Organizing
Care
EUROPEAN SUMMER ACADEMY
BERLIN, 26.05.–31.05.2024
2024’s European Summer Academy will investigate the organizational and entrepreneurial conditions, consequences, potentials, and politics of “care”. In times of economic, environmental and health crises, how we think and organize care – as in caring for e.g. others, neighborhoods, environments, and oneself – is of utmost concern. How, then, is care understood and practiced? What kind of organizational forms and processes does it take? What social and political struggles mark the work of caring? How do these forms and processes take place within the urban landscape; what are its sites, actors, and atmospheres?
Participants will apprehend the city of Berlin as an empirical site of organizing these conditions, concerns, and demands: from everyday practices of care to sites of self-care, from protest movements to feminist initiatives that seek to reorganize the labour of caring, from locations of collective caring to globalized networks, from entrepreneurial initiatives to the bureaucratic enforcement of care.
Photo credit: Photo by Pavel Nekoranec on Unsplash
Schedule
Sunday, May 26th
19.00 Welcome Dinner
Day 1 (Monday, May 27th) / Location: Sinema Transtopia
9.30-11.00 Conceptual groundwork: Organizing Care
11.30-12.30 Forming fieldwork groups around themes and sites
13.30-15.00 Groupwork: reading and discussing each other’s texts, formulate key theses
15.00-15.30 Exemplary poster presentations
16.00-16.30 Introduction to fieldwork
16.30-18.30 Preparing fieldwork in groups
18.30-19.00 Fieldwork plan, feedback
Day 2 (Tuesday, May 28th)/ Location: Various
9.00-18:00 Fieldwork
Groups will be visited by lecturers during the day to discuss first findings and the progress of the fieldwork
Day 3 (Wednesday May 29th)/ Location: Various
9.00-18.30 Fieldwork
18.30 – Joint dinner at Tempel Garten and discussion of fieldwork
Day 4 (Thursday May 30th) / Location: Sinema Transtopia (morning) and Silent Green Kulturquartier from 14:00
09:00-10:00 How to work the with material
10:00-14.00 Group work: Analysis of material
*Relocate to Silent Green*
14.00 – Preparing the exhibition
Day 5 (Friday May 31st)/ Location: Silent Green
09:00-10:00 Setting up the exhibition
10:00-12:30 Exhibition opening and tour
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Wrap-up
