Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of or- dinary citizens discovers a forgotten clause that allows them to take 240,000 homes back from multi-billion corporations.
In this work, scholar-activist and Nine Dots Prize winner Jo- anna Kusiak tells the story of a grassroots movement that convinced a million Berliners to pop the speculative housing bubble. She offers a vision of urban housing as democratically held commons, legally managed by a radically new institutio- nal model that works through democratic conflicts. Moving between interdisciplinary analysis and the personal story of her becoming a scholar-activist, Kusiak connects the dots between history and presence, the local and the global, and shows the potential of radically legal politics as a means of strengthening our democracies and reviving the rule of law.
Referent*in: Joanna Kusiak