About
Original submissions from academics, writers, artists, designers, architects and activists.
Action Stories launched in March 2021 with a series of six newly-commissioned texts and artworks by Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Anders Sunna, Jordan Seiler, Bill Posters, Sarah Prosser and Amy Franceschini covering three distinct but interrelated topics: Indigeneity and the Green Return; Urban Commons; and Radical Economies.
In addition to this website, Action Stories will be disseminated in June 2021 through a series of reading groups in collaboration with our partners Oslo School of Environmental Humanities. Selected articles will also be published in Natur og ungdom´s online magazine PUTSJ.
Action Stories is a continuation of the urban activist platform Action City, a project initiated in 2019 by Growlab Oslo and partners that sought to create physical meeting places for sharing tools and knowledge on how citizens can actively shape their neighborhoods.
This latest iteration of the project has been developed as a means of allowing us to continue to cultivate a network among activist circles and experiment and reflect on the themes that we and our partners are working with.
In this way, Action Stories is part of a wider process that researcher Tara Yosso refers to as “building community cultural wealth” i.e. strengthening communities by honing storytelling and communication skills; sharing counter-stories that challenge the dominant narratives; creating new art forms; and developing practices of mutual support.
Please visit the Submit page if you are interested in contributing to Action Stories.
