Over the past years, Stoffwechsel – Ecologies of Collaboration has explored autonomous zones and spaces of resistance, such as the anticapitalist agricultural cooperative Longo Maï and the Zone à Défendre (ZAD) at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, where activists fought against the construction of a new airport. This year, we expand our lens further and also include Indigenous protest camps in Canada, where new forms of autonomy, liberation, and environmental defense are being forged. These protest camps do more than block harmful infrastructures – they liberate our minds, opening up new ways of thinking and being in the world.
Our guest Anton Vandevoorde, whom we met this spring at the ZAD in France, explores with us how knowledge is produced in these autonomous zones and what happens when different worldviews and understandings of nature intersect or come into conflict.
We think not only about the ties between movements, but also about the bonds woven between movements, people, and the land itself. They are living networks that create new cultural expressions and experiment with alternative forms of social organization.
And what better place to celebrate these ties than at Lobau, where activists occupied construction sites in 2021/22 to resist a new highway. As we walk together through Lobau, we will honor the enduring legacy of these occupations, reflecting on how they continue to inspire and inform future movements.
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