Places to visit along the 2013 Ecotopia Biketour Route
Places suggested and/or contacted (not necessarily confirmed):
- Berlin: Former Berlin Wall (=border) Bike Trail (post cold war, historical trail, monument): http://www.berlin.de/mauer/mauerweg/index/index.de.php
- Berlin: Funkhaus Grünau (community centre with bike workshop): http://funkhaus-gruenau.de/
- Berlin: Les Lanternes Rouges (@ Wagenplatz Schwarzer Kanal) (Bike workshop): http://leslanternesrouges.blogsport.de/
- Berlin (Kreuzberg): regenbogenwerkstatt (bike repair workshop) (workshop, bike, DIY): http://www.regenbogenfabrik.de/fahrradwerkstatt.html
- Berlin: Berliner Geschichtswerkstätten (Berlin History Workshops) (local history, collective): http://www.berliner-geschichtswerkstatt.de
- No Border Berlin Reloaded: http://nobordercampberlinreloaded.blogsport.eu/de/
- Refugee Tent Action: refugeetentaction.net/index.php?lang=en
- Berlin: Wagenplatz Schwarzer Kanal (queer, trailer park, wagons, refugee support): http://www.schwarzerkanal.squat.net/
- Berlin: Bike Aid Berlin (@ Wagenplatz Schwarzer Kanal) (refugee support, bikes for refugees, bike workshop): http://bikeaidberlin.blogsport.de
- Potsdam (Brandenburg): Projekthaus Potsdam-Babelsberg
http://www.projekthaus-potsdam.de/
- Bad Belzig (Brandenburg) Der Winkel – Infocafe (Antifascist work, refugee support, local political space): http://www.derwinkel.de
- Bad Belzig (Brandenburg): Zentrum für experimentelle Gesellschaftsgestaltung (ZEGG) (Intentional Community, seminar centre, ecological and energy self-sufficiency projects, gardening)
www.zegg.de
- Ventus e.V. (youth work, nature)
http://ventus-ev.de/
- Proschim/Prožym: Climate Camp (camp, energy issues, open case brown coal mining, starting point of reclaim the power bike tour): http://www.lausitzcamp.info
- Bautzen: Benedikt Dyrlich (Bautzen) & Jan Krasni (Beograd) (Poetry Reading, information about Sorbian Minority of Lausitz Region):
- Schluckenauer Zipfel/Šluknovský výběžek: Extinguished villages of pre-WW2 german speaking minority (minority, expulsation, war, borderlands, multiethnical zone):
- Decin: Eco Farm (eco farm):
- Usti Nad Labem: eco farm/colletiv (eco farm, collective):
- Řehlovice: Kulturní Centrum Řehlovice (Czeck-German relations, german speaking minorty, culture, international encounters, renovation work): http://www.kcrehlo.cz
- Usti nad Labem: Roma Community (Roma, Housing, minorities):
- (near Karlovy Vary): DVP (Countryside community project, perma culture, collective): http://dvp.s.cz
- Terezín (Teresienstadt): Terezín (Teresienstadt) (Former Ghetto / Concentration Camp; part of Sudetenland): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terez%C3%ADn
- Praha: Antikomplex (NGO, german-speaking minority in CZ issues and history): http://www.antikomplex.cz
- Praha: Auto*mat Prague (Urban cycling promotion, sustainable urban transport): http://www.livable-cities.org/prague/prague-about-us/
- Praha: Bajkazyl (near the vltava river, bikekitchen): http://www.bajkazyl.cz/
- Praha: Bajkazyl Zizkov (bike workshop): http://www.bajkazyl.cz/zizkov
- Praha: Bicykl (DIY bike shop): http://www.bicykl.net
- Praha: Cibulka (squat): http://cibulka.squat.net/
- Praha: Salé Anarchist Infocentrum (infoshop): http://sale.s.cz/
- close to Praha: Eco Farm (eco farm): http://mrkev.cz/
- Praha: Iniciativa NE RASISMU! (Roma Racism, anti-ciganism, antifascit): http://www.nerasismu.cz/
- Praha: Garden Colony Living Project (cottages of a garden colony):
- Praha: German Embassy (historical issue) (GDR refugees in 1989):
- Rastenfeld (Niederösterreich): MoA! (smal inherited farm, two young persons, looking for more people to settle, gardening, some events, cultural work):
- Allensteig (Waldviertel/Niederösterreich): Truppenübungsplatz Allensteig (Large military excercise territority with a street going through):
- Schrems (Waldviertel, Niederösterreich): Waldviertler Schuhfabrik / GEA Akademie (last shoe production factory in austria, „structurally weak“ border region, example for local economy and re-vitalisation, social enterpreneurship, education, eco, manufacturing, money lending scandal): http://www.w4tler.at/ http://www.w4tler.at/geaneu/akademie/aktuelle-kurse
- Waidhofen/Thaya (Waldviertel, Niederösterreich): Waltviertel Akademie (education, czech-austrian relations): http://www.waldviertelakademie.at
- : Former Iron Curtain (including Bike paths along parts of it, esp. Between AT/CZ) (): http://www.ironcurtaintrail.eu/
- Herzogenburg (Niederösterreich): Garten der Generationen: http://www.gartendergenerationen.net/
- St. Pölten (Niederösterreich): LAMES (art, music): http://www.lames.at
- Wien: Bike Kitchen (bike, DIY, repair, bike culture, collective, space, self-organisation): http://bikekitchen.net
- Wien: Exvelo (Mobile Cycle Kitchen, Library and Sofa / Research Collective): http://www.exvelo.com/
- Wien: Food Coops (food coop, consumer cooperative, alternative economy, self-organisation): http://foodcoops.at/
- Wien: Gagarin (collective, bar, pub, concerts, open space, students, self-organisation): http://www.cafegagarin.at/
- Wien: Gaswerk Leopoldau (Post-industrial site, old gas works, abandoned, city development, open space, art, culture, experimental living, local spatial politics): http://citcollective.wordpress.com
- Wien: Guerilla Garden Längenfeldgasse (guerilla garden, public urban green space, gardening, self-organisation, reclaim): http://ggardening.kukuma.org/
- Marchfeld: Large agricultural area around Vienna (foreign workers’ issues, agriculture, aglomeration agriculture, plastic ocean (?), local food self-sufficiency):
- Wien: Platzda! (open space, activism, critical collective cartography, right to the city): http://www.platzda.net
- Wien: TÜWI (collective, bar, pub, concerts, open space, students, self-organisation): http://tuewi.action.at/
- Wien: Wagenplatz AKW Lobau (trailer park, wagenplatz, wagons, gardening): http://akwlobau.wagenplatz.at/
- Wien: Wagenplatz Gänseblümchen (trailer park, wagenplatz, wagons, struggle for a place): http://gaensebluemchen.wagenplatz.at/
- Wien: Pizzeri(A) (squat, pizzeria, gentrification struggle, city politics, pizza): http://pizza.noblogs.org
- Border Region AT/SK (between Wien & Bratislava): Villages with new housing development boom by Slovakian commuters: Kittsee, (private housing „land grabbin“ turned the other way round, rich slovaks buy and build cheaply in Austria, EUregio, racism, post-1989, EU enlargement, spatial development)
- Nikitsch (Burgenland, close to HU city of Sopron): Community Project (collective farm, new project, needs help building (up), political projects, seminar house, croatian minority village):
- Riedlingsdorf (Burgenland): SoLawi Sepplashof (CSA farm): http://sepplashof.at
- Prekmurje: Art Center (art, development, community, rural): http://www.artcenter-slovenia.org/
- Deutschlandsberg (Steiermark): Wieserhoisl Farm Collective (collective, farm, farming, common economy, self-organisation): http://www.wieserhoisl.at/
- Lobnig/Lobnik (Kärnten/Koroška): Hof Stopar (Longo Mai Farm) (collective farm, political base, border / multi-ethnical zone, transnational community network):
- Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla (Kärnten/Koroška): A-Zone (farm, culture, historical hikings): http://www.haderlap.at/
- Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla (Kärnten/Koroška): Peršmanhof Museum of Antifascism in Carinthia (Museum, antifascism, resistance, slovenian minority, partizans): http://www.persman.at/
- Kärnten/Koroška: 'Multi-ethnical’ area of Kärnten/Koroška ():
- Ljubljana: A-Infoshop (infoshop): http://a-infoshop.blogspot.de/
- Ljubljana: Delavska-Punkerska Univerza (Worker’s and Punk’s University) (radical scholars’ collective): http://dpu.mirovni-institut.si/
- Ljubljana: KUD LJUD (): http://wiki.ljudmila.org
- Ljubljana: Ljudmila – Open Source Tech Collective (open source, tech, collective):
- Ljubljana: Metelkova (squatted complex, central, urban, art, music, party, social and political groups, libraries, galleries, DIY workshops, infoshop, festivals): http://www.metelkovamesto.org
- Ljubljana: Partizan’s Path ():
- Ljubljana: ROG (squat, social centre, events, art, ex-bikefactory): http://tovarna.org/
- Ljubljana: Social Centre ROG (social centre):
- Ljubljana: Zadruga Urbana Collective Vrt (collective urban garden):
- between LJ and MB (appr. 30Km before MB): Country Project ():
- Maribor: Pekarna (squat, social centre): http://www.pekarna.org/web/
- Maribor: Urban Furrows (ECC activity, holistic local development approach): http://www.maribor2012.eu/en/programme/urban-furrows/
- Maribor: Slovenska kolesarska mreža (bike association, bike advocacy): http://kolesarji.org/projekti/kolosvescanje/
- Ex-Yugoslav borders (quite new) ():
- : Schengen Border ():
- whole country: „Live“ changes from JUL on, when HR joining EU (also: changes in/with neighbours, such as BiH [e.g. Food imports]) (EU extension, borders, trade, bureaucracy, protests, symbolics):
- Varaždin: community gardens (gardening, collective): http://gredica.wordpress.com/
- Čakovec, Maribor, Murska Sobota, Varaždin : New Media Cross Boder – No Border Culture (generation of dynamic cross-border area, interaction among development actors, new media culture, transdisciplinary art, sustainable development, new forms of collaborative creation): http://noborderculture.eunoborderculture.eu, wiki
- : Ex-Yugoslav borders (quite new) ():
- : New EU border (July 2013!) ():
- Zagreb: Bike Kitchen (bike, DIY, repair, bike culture, collective, space, self-organisation):
- Zagreb: Reciklaonica (squat): http://reciklaonica.blogspot.com
- Zagreb: Zelena Akcija (NGO, environmental protection): http://zelena-akcija.hr/
- near Zagreb: ZMAG (permaculture, farm, ): http://www.zmag.hr/en
- Zagreb: Što Čitaš Bookshop (anarchist publisher and bookshop, infoshop, venue, events, part of bigger squat komplex (?)): http://www.stocitas.org
- Zagreb: Infoshop Library Pippilotta (Info Library): http://infoshop-library-pippilotta.blogspot.de/
- Zagreb: Biciklopoporavljaona (literaly: BicycleRepairShop) (bike workshop):
- Banja Luka: environment centre ():
- Brčko: Firefly International (arts, culture, post-conflict reconstruction, youth):
- Osijek: Zeleni Osijek (NGO, ecology, running eco center nearby): http://www.zeleni-osijek.hr/en/
- Zlatna Greda / Kopački rit: Zlatna Greda Eco Centre run by Zeleni Osijek (eco tourism, photo safari): www.zlatna-greda.org
- : Ex-Yugoslav borders (quite new) ():
- Novi Sad: Bike Kitchen (bike, DIY, repair, bike culture, collective, space, self-organisation): http://cultureexchangeserbia.org/
- Novi Sad: CK13 Youth Centre (social centre, no accomodation possible): http://ck13.org/
- Novi Sad: Drustveni Centar Squat (squat, social centre): http://drustvenicentar.org
- Novi Sad: Peoples’ Kitchen (cooking, communal, public): http://ck13.org/otvorena-kuhinja
- Beograd: 'Ulice za bicikliste’ / Beo-ciklizacija (?) (CM-like movement): http://www.uzb.rs/beociklizacija.html, https://www.facebook.com/groups/ulicezabicikliste/
- Beograd: FAT cyclists (playing music using bikes, space at old part of Zemun near the Danube river where they organize workshops and music rehearsals, public concerts): https://www.facebook.com/groups/273637089410997/
- Beograd: Inex Film Squat (Squat, building of former Film Production Company, public music events, exhibitions, workshops, food, lot of empty space): http://ekspedicijainexfilm.blogspot.com/, https://www.facebook.com/InexFilm
- Beograd: Karkatag kolektiv (collective, young people, building all kinds of instalations, using bike parts wellding them, organizing exhibitions, workshops etc.): http://www.karkatag.com/index.htm
- Beograd: KC Grad (Cultural Centre Grad, old house just next to the bike path along the Sava river, organizing music, art or cultural events, parties,exhibitions, seminars): http://www.gradbeograd.eu/
- Beograd: Klub Gavez (club, in the quiet part far from crowded area of Ada Ciganlija, music events, parties, etc. Bike friendly place where Biketour was sleeping in 2001 and 2005): https://www.facebook.com/gavez.klub
- Beograd: Zelena Omladina Srbije (Serbian Green Youth) (NGO, ecology): http://www.zelenaomladina.org/
- Beograd: EuroVelo 13 initiative (local part of EuroVelo cycle route): http://www.eurovelo.com/en/eurovelos/eurovelo-13/countries/serbia-1
- Zrenjanin: Jugoremedija (workers’ self-organisation, factory, occupied factory):
- : Former Iron Curtain (including Bike paths along parts of it, esp. Between RO/SRB) (): http://www.ironcurtaintrail.eu/
- : EU border ():
- Timişoara: DIY Aterlier (): http://atelierdiy.gluganeagra.ro
- Timişoara: Critical Mass (critical mass):
- Roşia Montană: Open Cast Gold Mine Protests (mining, activism, land struggle): http://rosiamontana.org/
- Cluj: Critical Mass (critical mass):
- Cluj: Roma Community (roma, minorities):