»The housing question in Esch is currently decided by masterplans and forecasts, not by those who dwell there, within a post-industrial refiguration that unevenly produces growth-islands and periphery across the same city. We demand that the PAL and Article 29bis procedures be extended to include a …«

Carolin Genz

»Soils are not a commodity or a simple extractive resource, they constitute ecologies of collaboration between humans and non-humans that will sustain livability in the future. This demand is a call for local experimentations based on context, multiplicity and practices rather than a search for a …«

Valentin Bansac

»I call on the City of Esch-sur-Alzette to create permanent civic spaces where residents, researchers, artists, and policymakers can collectively imagine and debate futures that exceed the dominant frameworks of regeneration, innovation, and economic growth. By building institutions that sustain …«

Federica Bueti

»Keep the portal open. We demand the right to cross between Esch and the City of Ash—not once a year, but whenever the city begins to forget who it has excluded. No city should have the power to exile its own possibilities forever.«

A Glanz from The City of Ash

»Do not build participation into projects. Build places that embed participation in everyday life and can outlive projects.«

Eleni Katrini

»Recognize and support the everyday spaces where belonging takes root.«

Ena Kukić

»Soils are not a commodity or a simple extractive resource, they constitute ecologies of collaboration between humans and non-humans that will sustain livability in the future. This demand is a call for local experimentations based on context, multiplicity and practices rather than a search for a …«

Valentin Bansac

»Metzeschmelz offers a unique opportunity to learn from the shortcomings of Belval and create a vibrant urban district that connects Esch-sur-Alzette and Schifflange. To achieve this, three key principles should guide its development: a genuinely fine-grained mix of uses, stronger integration with …«

Frankfurt Babylon

»Across territories and political contexts, employment in the steel industry was more than ‘ just a job’: the mills structured life, built cities, transformed landscapes and - alongside its many contested conditions – produced tight social networks. Dealing with the relics of this industry therefore …«

felder

»Put faith in the sacred. The sacred binds us in a collective contract of care for our lived environment, beyond individual profit; in turn, it sustains us. Leave space, and encourage collective responsibility, for the invaluably inviolable.«

New South

»We demand an end to the financialization of Esch-sur-Alzette's urban life, most visible at Belval, and the pre-leasing of its future through arbitrary, unaccountable metrics, and the institutional adoption of transparent, collective alternatives that recognize Esch as a shared project rather than a …«

Centrum för studier av markanvändning

»We hereby demand The Unbank of Esch. An independent organization, communal archive, local laboratory with the purpose of gathering, curating, and giving access to lived knowledges of the city; unofficial experience, embodied memory, research, interpretation, concern, strategy. An imaginative and …«

Emma Sofie Brogaard