This week, Cities Reimagined takes us to Peru and Vienna to discuss skateboarding.
My guests this week, Christian Fischer and Johannes Wimmeder stayed in Cerrito de le Virgen in northern Peru for a while to work with the NGO Concrete Jungle Foundation. Cerrito de le Virgen is a neighbourhood characterized by displacement and replacement of residents due to extreme weather events and archaeological finds. In this delicate environment, the Concrete Jungle Foundation teamed up with the local community to design and build a skatepark, to plant the seed with capacity and to create a shared and safe place for everyone. Concrete Jungle Foundation is an innovative non-profit that works to empower individuals and communities worldwide through fostering and sustaining the positive values inherent to skateboarding. Christian followed the project with his camera and produced the documentary “El Cerrito” which is out now and you want to see, believe me
It was time for me to sit down with Christian and Johannes to talk kick-flips and….
🛹 What skateboarding has to do with the appropriation, safety and production of urban space
🪴How the work of Concrete Jungle Foundation is building capacities in local communities to improve the quality of life for everyone
📚 What life skills skateboarding teach the young, and not-so-young ones.
🦽How skaters (.. but also the elderly and people with special mobility needs) perceive urban space differently
🌃 How local administrations increasingly take into account the perspectives of skaters in urban design
…. and a lot more background stories on El Cerrito.
Watch Christian’s documentary El Cerrito on Youtube.
Follow and support Concrete Jungle Foundation: https://concretejunglefoundation.org // Instagram
Follow Johannes’ Skateboard Club Vienna: https://skateboardclubvienna.at // Instagram
Follow Cities Reimagined on Instagram or say hello to Johannes on LinkedIn or via email johannes@anthropocene.city .
As we are wrapping up Season 1 of Cities Reimagined, we are looking into partnerships for future episodes. Please do get in touch if you are interested in being on the show and being part of the Cities Reimagined Podcast.
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