Counterspace is the first decolonial platform mapping cultural activism worldwide. It proposes decolonial toolkits with collective tools and resources, as well as a global directory browsable by continent, practice, and social construct. Revisiting Joseph Beuys’s social sculpture, the global network connects the actions and actors decolonising culture to facilitate and inspire further work.
Departing from creativity as a source shared by all human beings, and through these unlearning and relearning toolkits, Counterspace aims to co-create new collective knowledge production pools in circulation for individuals, collectives, and institutions, while self-organising, exploring horizontal relationships, and unlearning and relearning personal and community development through a decolonial and hence intersectional, decentralised, and holistic approach.
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Counterspace was founded in 2019 by Cristina Morales – a public anthropologist and radical culture producer. Given the niche nature of her field, she aimed not only to put on the map initiatives like hers, but to create a global network fostering new work and collaborations in that direction. Although she has curated the platform since, it has been designed as a collective knowledge production pool constantly shaping the content, growth, and direction of it via the relationships created through all its activity.
Counterspace has so far partnered up with Actipedia by the Center for Artistic Activism (New York), Social Art Network (UK), Humanities, Arts & Society (Paris), Antiuniversity Now (London), Socially Engaged Art Salon (Brighton), Publib (UK), Utopian Studies Society (UK), Ephemera (International), Primary (Nottingham), Design Science Studio by Buckminster Fuller Institute and HabRitual (San Francisco), and Narratopias by Plurality University Network (Paris).
Counterspace is an independent, open access, and adverts-free platform currently under further development while securing funding.
Image credit: Counterspace cultural strategy by Cristina Morales – London, 2021.
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