Possible Decolonial Futures: Let’s Rethink Our Minds!

Date: June 12, 2025
Time: 10h30 to 13h00
Meeting point: Coté Gourmand, Av. Paul Deschanel 6, 1030 Schaerbeek
Register here: https://forms.gle/GLhWAFAS9zRpxY4aA

Join us for a workshop dedicated to rethinking the world around us through a decolonial lens. "Possible Decolonial Futures: Let's Rethink Our Minds" invites participants to explore how colonial legacies continue to shape contemporary issues such as migration, citizenship, and cultural identity.

Through a combination of interactive activities, discussions, and creative exercises, we will collectively examine concepts such as islamophobia, civil resistance, and cultural memory and how they are still connected to Europe's colonial history. The workshop will also feature an engaging Zine Lab, where participants will have the opportunity to use zine-making as a creative and political tool for decolonial expression.

The program begins with a guided urban tour through Schaerbeek, followed by a group debate on critical concepts. In the second part of the workshop, we will turn our focus to the contemporary struggles like the one for the liberation in Palestine, with an audio-visual presentation of poetry, slam, and art, alongside a presentation of the latest IHRC research. The day will conclude with a hands-on workshop on how to build a decolonial zine, followed by an open Q&A session.

Workshop Program

Part I: Is it just a matter of names?
10:30 – Meeting point at Coté Gourmand, Av. Paul Deschanel 6
10:30 – 11:20 – Urban tour in Schaerbeek
11:20 – 11:35 – Debate on key critical concepts and methodologies

Part II: Decolonizing the contemporary: the Palestine struggle for liberation
11:35 – 11:50 – Audio-visual presentation of poems, slam, and arts
11:50 – 12:10 – Presentation of the latest IHRC research
12:10 – 12:50 – Workshop: Zine Lab – how to build a decolonial zine
12:50 – 13:00 – Q&A session

This event is organised as part of the project UDEW – Urban Decolonisation Walks in Europe and coordinated together with Islamic Human Rights Commission, an independent campaign, research and advocacy NGO that struggles for justice for all peoples regardless of their racial, confessional or political background. Set up in 1997, it has with Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

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