Why do we keep being shocked by far-right election results? Written by: Daria Aron As I started to write this article on the evening of Sunday, 24th of November 2024 I was watching the election results of the first round of the Romanian Presidential Elections. As the exit polls beganContinue Reading
Written by Barbara Gąsienica Seoul, South Korea – a bustling megacity with over 10 million residents. Seoulites have been searching desperately for places to relax, unaware that the solution has been right there all along. The streams and reservoirs have been quietly waiting for their potential to be recognised. HongjecheonContinue Reading
Written by Carmen Rueda Lindemann In this article, I argue against the normative academic framework shaped by neoliberal reforms and advocate for the meaningful integration of music education into academic curricula. This analysis draws on neoliberal, postcolonial, and utopian pedagogical paradigms to illuminate the limitations of an education system narrowlyContinue Reading
Written by Julia Aleksandra Zmarzlik The Macandra building in Enschede (Overijssel, Netherlands) is one of the last breaths of residential brutalism in the country. Currently it provides affordable housing for international students, but the living conditions are dire and far from comfortable. A major renovation has been announced for aContinue Reading
Written by: Ramona Schnall In the first part of my essay about Bookchin’s dream of municipalism, I sketched his idea of the municipality as the place to resist capitalism and environmental destruction. But then how realistic is the picture of self-sufficiency and autonomy really? When thinking about human nature, wouldContinue Reading
Written by: Ramona Schnall There is one dream that echoes in many of my generation: The dream of a farmhouse somewhere in the countryside, a huge common area, maybe some art studies and if not, at least a little garden for butternut squash and eggplants. In our future, the ideaContinue Reading
Written by Daria Aron In recent years, all over the world, the right to abortion has been debated. In some countries, abortion was finally legalised, such as in Ireland, and in others, the right was restricted, such as in the United States. The problem is, however, that legality is notContinue Reading
Written by Sol Zeev-Ben-Mordehai In the digital age, trends spread like wildfire; once-hidden corners of the internet now shine brightly in the spotlight. 15-second videos targeting boys and young men on how feminism has robbed them of success are widely seen on TikTok and Instagram. While there were always ideologicalContinue Reading
Written by Gergely Halász As the world is engrossed in political and economic turmoil, many crises seem to loom as existential issues. The climate crisis, which is intimately familiar to anyone who has read the news in the past twenty years, needs no introduction. The issue I wish to tackleContinue Reading
Written by Deniz Koçak On May 28th of 2013, activists in Turkey planned a peaceful sit-in in order to protect Taksim Square’s Gezi Park which the government planned to demolish. They were standing against the government’s choice to cut down the trees in the park in order to “construct aContinue Reading