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A conversation.

What will feed Europe in 2050?

Polish family farmers imagine agriculture 25 years from now. They share their vision for the future and how you can support the people who grow your food.

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From Europe’s dirtiest city to an ecological success story

How the OSTEN Festival connects art with post-industrial futures

People are sitting around a cheese. One person sits in the middle and cuts the cheese. There is one dimmed light shining.

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INLAND: A Hub in Spain to strenghten pastoralist networks

INLAND is a non profit association 2009. It provides a platform for diverse actors engaged in agricultural, social, and cultural production and questions the center-periphery dynamics so prevalent in the arts system. It also aims to strengthen the rural as a space for change.

Regenerative Building Alliance: Transforming the way we build

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Regenerative Building Alliance: Transforming the way we build

The way that we live has become a question of prosperity and justice. It poses a major challenge to our social cohesion and democracy. That is why the Regenerative Building Alliance is supporting the sustainable development of the construction and housing industry. Read an interview with Luisa Seiler, who leads the project, here.

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Tandem-residencies in Tarabya: nightlife as resistance

How does nightlife in Istanbul becomes an expression of identity and solidarity? In an interview, Yelta Köm and Ulya Soley reflect on their time as Tarabya fellows: from artistic research and publications to the “Sound Kitchen”. Find out what they experienced and how to apply for the fellowship.

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Recyclart: our Hub in Brussels

Recyclart: where art, social economy, and urban coexistence converge. Based in a former industrial site in the densely inhabited Molenbeek district of Brussels, the multidisciplinary arts center focuses on experimental, underground, and socially engaged forms of artistic expression. Recyclart Fabrik offers job experiences to people facing challenges in its workshops for wood, metal and upcycling. Bar Recyclart brings people together under the motto “Veggie, vegan or halal, we are all sitting at the same table”.

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Radical Ecology: Supporting climate justice through creative practice

Radical Ecology is a non-profit organization that was founded by our new Allianz Foundation Fellow Ashish Ghadiali. In this interview, Ashish talks about why racial justice and environmental justice are two sides of the same coin and how art needs to conceive of itself as an agent of environmental justice.

Watering Systems on fields full of crops

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Transforming the EU food system: A systemic challenge

Giving fair access for all to healthy diets, decent jobs along the entire food chain, and keeping food production within planetary boundaries – these are the goals for a sustainable transformation of the EU food systems. Allianz Foundation supports IDDRI’s work to shift EU policies towards a food system transition.

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Younes Al-Amayra in conversation: “We created true identification figures”

The founder of the successful YouTube channel “Datteltäter” in conversation with Esra Kücük, CEO of the Allianz Foundation, talking about the struggle to get Muslim topics into the German media, the normalization that has already happened, as well as the challenges that still exist.

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Council for Digital Ecology

Internet services don’t seem physical at first glance, but they create substantial environmental impacts. We spoke with Harald Welzer from the Council for Digital Ecology about how to reduce their ecological footprint and how realistic these strategies are.

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Beyond Equality Gathering: “Hoping for another future!”

Feminism as a comprehensive project for justice and structural transformation - that's what we talked about with curator Margarita Tsomou and activist María Galindo on the occasion of the "Beyond Equality" Gathering. The Gathering took place June 30 to July 2, 2023, at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.

Markus Beeko is standing in front of the Declaration of Human Rights as a poster and looks into the camera

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Markus Beeko in conversation: “Protecting the climate is protecting human rights”

The Secretary General of the German Section of Amnesty International in conversation with Esra Kücük, CEO of the Allianz Foundation, talking about freedom of civil society, the climate crisis as a human rights crisis, and solidarity with risktakers.

There is a bunch of people who are photoshopped together on a yellow background. In the foreground is a banner with the name of the roadshow: "Wir können auch anders"

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“Wir können auch anders” (We can do things differently) – The Roadshow

Inspired by Maja Göpel’s bestseller “Wir können auch anders” (We can do things differently) a film crew portrayed local climate champions in a documentary series. Then the team went on a live tour in five German cities. We spoke about this with the director Lars Jessen & Nicola Bramkamp (SAVE THE WORLD).

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“Making our society fit for the future” – a conversation with the transformation researcher Maja Göpel

Esra Kücük, CEO of the Allianz Foundation, in conversation with Allianz Foundation Fellow Maja Göpel about the courage for transformation, necessary new narratives for a society fit for the future and cooperation as new realism.

Four women are sitting in a park on a blanket and are watching and learning while one of them is showing them how to spin.

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Four months in Tarabya

“Even small stories can turn into big movements and trigger bigger change" – Read a testimonial from Özge Açıkkol and Güneş Savaş from „Oda Projesi“ in Istanbul and the Berlin-based artist Nadin Reschke about their experience and learnings from a four-months tandem-residency in Tarabya.

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Our new fellow Makan Fofana: the mastermind of Turfurism

Three questions to our fellows: Makan Fofana, the minister of magic, as he describes himself, is a native of a Parisian banlieue. Makan has been developing new ways of reinventing and re-enchanting neighborhoods generally considered as economically and socially deprived.

Foto von Idil Baydar wie sie mit einem Duden im Arm eine Grimasse schneidet.

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Our new fellow Idil Baydar: shatter the integration nightmare

Three questions for our fellows: Idil Baydar is is a multidimensional and award-winning artist, living in Berlin, who initiates intersectional, anti-racist discourses with socio-critical art. She works with youth institutions, universities, theatres, media, authors, museums and other organizations.