However the contest was never realized, thus pushing them to proceed with the project on their own. A contest by a local Belgrade municipality in 2014, which was won by the group enabled them to further develop the idea and make it more concrete. From the invitation to publicly discuss urban realities in Belgrade through the method of working tables, gradually the idea of cooperative housing started to take shape. Ko Gradi Grad (Who builds the city) started through an open call back in 2010. Interview with Marc Neelen & Ana Džokić, members of Ko Gradi Grad (Who Builds the City), Belgrade The knowledge exchange program was funded by The video-interviews presented here, will be complemented by a hybrid workshop on 4th June, which will happen in Athens and where people and groups interested to build their own project will have the chance to explain the local context and get input and ideas on addressing specific challenges from the invited MOBA members.
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In early 2021 we made a series of video discussion- interviews with key people from the participating cooperatives, in order to better understand how they’re working towards implementing collaborative housing projects in their respective cities, discuss their challenges, and ways that those are being overcome. Our knowledge exchange project, was planned to happen as real visits to each inititative, but due to covid restrictions the whole project moved online. We have been following the efforts of MOBA since its initial steps, and through this project, we aimed to strengthen our connection with the MOBA Network and exchange practical knowledge with its members. – Ko Gradi Grad (Who Builds the City), Belgrade – Zaduga za etično financiranje (Cooperative for Ethical financing), Zagreb MOBA has been registered as a European Cooperative Society in 2020 and was initially formed in 2017 by 5 housing cooperatives of Central and South-Eastern Europe. A knowledge exchange and networking project with MOBA network.Ĭo-Hab Athens, as a collective, we are particularly inspired by the fact that the members of the MOBA Housing Network have developed and started implementing pilot cooperative projects in Central and South-Eastern Europe, where lack of collective housing solutions and public housing policies are a common challenge as in the Greek context.
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