Alt Shift

Every summer since 2022 AltShift brings together approximately 200 people around the topics of degrowth, eco social futures, global justice and solidarity.The people who join are a wild bunch; from young activists and students, to more seasoned movement organizers; from eco socialist to anarchists; people involved in activism, politics, the arts-sector, education, academia or cooperatives.And that's the beauty of it, to connect, exchange, discuss, dance, cook, plot the revolutions yet to come, and celebrate the ongoing ones.

In times of polycrises, mere knowledge transmission is not enough.  We need to be able to understand ourselves as actors of change. We need to engage in meaning making activities. We need to acknowledge, process and express emotions, together.Concretely, for Alt Shift that means we engage with impulses from political collectives and movements and process them together with arts-based methodologies. That can look like creating cyanotype prints on decolonial futures, experiencing ourselves as collective body in contact dance improvisation, co-creating queer feminist podcasts or up-cycling our clothes while reading out antifascist poetry.