‘The Other City: Exposing Tarwewjik’ is a project by COhABITATION STRATEGIES, a Rotterdam based cooperative for socio-spatial development that focuses its actions, designs and research inside the conditions of conflict and exclusion of the contemporary city. During this three day event, a series of public workshops, excursions and presentations were prepared with the goal of discussing possibilities to design alternative cohabitation models, stimulate difference in socio-spatial relations and construct parallel local economies in Tarwewijk, a vulnerable and segregated neighborhood in the south of Rotterdam included in this year’s list of the 40 most ‘problematic’ neighborhoods of the Netherlands. This neighborhood is an exemplary urban case study that reflects the socio-spatial casualties of the Dutch neoliberal trend of urbanization.

Invited contributors are: Alonso Ayala, Wim Blauw, Libia Castro, Aetzel Griffioen, Vinca Kruk, Ólafur Ólafsson, Thomas Purcell, Erik Swyngedouw, Daniel van der Velden, Piet Vollard, Gon Zifroni.

COhABITATION STRATEGIES members are Lucia Babina, Emiliano Gandolfi, Thomas Purcell, Gabriela Rendón and Miguel Robles-Durán. Project members are Guillermo Delgado, Phillip Lühl and Taufan ter Weel. For more info, email to: info(at)CohabitationStrategies.org

This event is part of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam Open City Event Program. Exposing Tarwewjik has been produced with the support of Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Eric Dullaert from Cultureel Denkwerk, Deelgemeente Charlois, Woonstad, dS+V, Berlage Institute, IHS and ART Hotel Rotterdam.