about places of learning, remembrance and commemoration
February 26, 2021 marked the 135th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Africa Conference of 1884/5. While at the infamous historical Africa conference, 19 white western men competitively negotiated and codified their areas of interest on the African continent over the course of 4 months, we would like to counter this with a community-based, polyphonic, collaborative, decentralized, decolonial format. With the opening of the [Re]Visionen Think Tank series, we not only want to reappropriate this historical date, but also create a space that is shared quarterly with the participation of Berlin activists and experts of African origin, domestic and foreign experts, decision-makers and representatives of other communities with whom we feel solidarity.
We did an interview with Petra Rosenberg, graduate social pedagogue, scientist, author and politician, as part of the [Re]Visionen Think Tank 1/21 . The process and the importance of creating a specific (de-)central place of remembrance, documentation, learning and/or remembrance is addressed. Such a place was realized with the Berlin Marzahn forced camp memorial .
