CliP Open Session 3: Public Lecture with Selçuk Balamir - 'Collapsolidarity'

What happens after years of fighting for a liveable planet, when the future no longer feels salvageable and yet still resolutely collective?

In this lecture, designer-researcher Selçuk Balamir revisits fifteen years of climate campaigns, housing projects and creative practices through the lens of collapse, not as apocalypse, but as beginnings for reparation, resilience and regeneration. Drawing from his research on E-WERK Luckenwalde, his recent experience at the first Collapse Camp in Germany, and his participation at COP30 in Belém, he proposes “collapsolidarity" as the art of simultaneously letting go and coming together while falling apart.

About Selçuk Balamir

Selçuk Balamir is a designer, educator and organiser working on postcapitalist politics, commoning practices and climate justice campaigns. He co-developed creative-strategic frameworks for disobedient actions (Climate Games, Shell Must Fall) and he co-initiated social housing cooperatives (NieuwLand, de Nieuwe Meent).

His PhD in Cultural Analysis focused on postcapitalist design. He’s currently researching the creative repurposing of fossil energy infrastructures and teaching about cultural strategies for decolonisation and decarbonisation.

About CLiP #7: The Garage of Prepping Otherwise

CLiP (Collective Learning in Practice) is an educational program organized by Kunstinstituut Melly. For this edition, curated by the art-education collective The Garage School, young participants explore collective survival in times of global crisis. Over six months (October 2025–March 2026), participants develop skills and tools for collective survival through a mix of creative and practical methods, including discussion, movement, LARPing, food preservation, and mutual aid. They also produce monthly “letters to the future(s) we are preparing for” in any form: text, video, performance, or collage. Outcomes, such as exhibitions, radio shows, or public LARPs, are created collaboratively.

Monthly Open CLiP Sessions

There will be a free public event every month on a Friday, sharing the concepts and practices explored within Melly’s Collective Learning in Practice (CLiP) #7.

Location: Auditorium, first floor, Kunstinstituut Melly.

Image Credit: Laila Kaletta, E-WERK Luckenwalde.