2013 route page

Below are some ideas of this years route - add projects you think we might like to vist below or email info@ecotopiabiketour.net

MAP Here's an experimental map with

• some of the points mentioned below (geografic position not exact!)
• former borders and border zones
• relatively new borders and still (on the international legal level) contested borders
• historical "multi-ethnical" areas
• the old iron curtain
• the former berlin wall (=border) line, which is a historical cicle/hiking path now
• schengen zone borders ("fortress EU")
• other tours taking place in spring/summer 2013

URL: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

DE

• Berlin: No Border Camp, Date unknown
• Berlin: (bike) path along the former berlin wall: totally combines the border topic with biking!
• Berlin: regenbogenwerkstatt, kreuzberg (bike repair workshop)
• Berlin: friedel / f54: small social centre with communal kitchen, space for meetings and silk screen printing facility / equipment
• Brandenburg (close to Berlin): Tagungshaus Wernsdorf [www.tagungshaus-wernsdorf.de]
• Brandenburg (close to Berlin): Kesselberg http://www.kesselberg.info/
• Münsterland: July 19 - 27, Anti-nuclear camp http://antiatomcamp.nirgendwo.info/

PL

• Łódź: bike riksha manufacture http://www.riksza.com
• Gorki Wielkie: village near Bielsko-Biala: Art, Nature and Exchange. Projects surrounding the museum devoted to a local writer, Zofia Kossak.
  • Summer festival with actors, musicians, painters and sculptors from across Europe.
  • Eco Art Scupture Workshops for local young people (19-28th July 2013)
• anti fracking activists / areas
• ...

CZ

• iron curtain trail (eurovelo 13) along the czech/austrian border
• Landesausstellung in the south (vissy brod, cesky krumlov) together with the region of upper austria about the common and separated history of the area
• ...

SK

• Bratislava: http://www.bmeres.com/ Bike Engeneer
• Bratislava: critical mass group (CM organised last friday of the month) http://www.criticalmass.sk/english/
• Bratislava: cycle kitchen http://cyklokuchyna.criticalmass.sk/
• Bratislava: Cycling coalition: very active org., which aims to improve bicycle infrastructure in Bratislava http://www.cyklokoalicia.sk/en/
• Zajezova (close to Zvolen, central slovakia, especially one part which is called SEKIER): village/community, working with permaculture, try to live self sustainable, environmental courses, eco festival http://www.zajezka.sk/ENozajezke.htm
  • summer festival (should be 5th-7th july 2013)
• Brdarka (close to Roznava, south-east): village/community, working with permaculture, try to live self sustainable, environmental courses http://www.alter-nativa.sk/eng/index.php?akcia=zobraz&id=126&subm=11
• Zilina: Stanica: alternative cultural centre http://www.stanica.sk/?lang=en (projects; built two theatre halls of beer crates, straw etc. http://www.stanica.sk/s2/?lang=en)
• along the danube from Wien to Beograd: very good bike road http://en.eurovelo6.org/rubriques/gauche/the-stages/budapest-belgrade/budapest-belgrade-1/?set_language=en
• ...

AT

• Oberösterreich (Gmunden): O.tel.o (open technology space) http://www.otelo.or.at/
• Oberösterreich (Freistadt) http://www.landesausstellung.com/ (see CZ above)
• Niederösterreich (close to Wien): CSA Ochsenherz
• Burgenland central: Nikitsch collective farm
• Burgenland south: http://experimentselbstversorgung.net/
• Steiermark: Wieserhoisl
• Kärnten/Koroška: Peršmanhof
• Wien: Bikekitchen
• Wien: TÜWI, Gagarin
• Wien: Critial Mass (3rd Friday of month)
• Wien: Gaswerk Leopoldau
• Wien: Guerilla Garden
• Wien: FoodCoops

HU

• ...

SI

• Prekmurje: Art Center http://www.artcenter-slovenia.org/
• Prekmurje: (projected?) hydro power plants in Mura river
• Maribor: Pekarna Social Centre
• Maribor: Urban Farrows
• Ljubljana: ROG (Squat and former bike factory)
• Ljubljana: Metelkova (squatted complex in the city including art, music, party, social and political groups, libraries, galleries, DIY workshops, infoshop, etc.)
• Koper: MKC social youth centre

HR

• Zagreb: Reciklaonica http://reciklaonica.blogspot.com (preferably after August)
• Zagreb: bikekitchen
• Varazdin: community gardens http://gredica.wordpress.com/
• ...

SRB

• Border with HU: Refugee Camps
  • No Border Network (local activists): noborderserbia.wordpress.com
• Novi Sad: Bikekitchen http://cultureexchangeserbia.org/
• Novi Sad: http://ck13.org/ Youth Centre
  • Peoples' Kitchen http://ck13.org/otvorena-kuhinja
• Novi Sad: drustvenicentar.org Squat
• Beograd: 'ulice za bicikliste'
• unknown location Ecofest by Green Youth http://www.zelenaomladina.org/

RO

• Rosia Montana: struggle against gold mine (former reclaim the fields meeting point)
• ...

BG

• ...

UA

• Lviv: http://wiz-art.com.ua/en

XYZ

• ...

Events without confirmed places / Other people on the road to cross with

• noborder camp(s)
• cyclocamp (roma, italia)
• climate camp(s)
• energy / land struggle
• http://www.reclaimpowertour.org Cottbus (Mid July) via Berlin to western DE
  • possible crossing: between Berlin and Cottbus
• http://www.dunavision.eu Sustainable Tour along the complete Danube River (MAR - SEP)
  • possible crossing: (probably too far ahead; in HR on JUL 1st already...)