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- Beyond Bodies: Spatializing Harm Reduction Ecology in Upper Manhattan
At Marcus Garvey park in the summer of 2021, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 epidemic, residents in Harlem gathered in protest to contest the placement of drug-related services at what is perceived to be an unsubstantiated rate and an overwhelming presence of treatment facilities, including methadone clinics and new safe injection sites.
1979 – 2022New YorkTemporal Coverage: 1979/2022 (2020s,1979,1980,1980s,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1990s,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2000s,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2010s,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2020s,2021,2022,1970s,2020s,) Read Story - Contested Space: Syringes in a Community Garden
Set in the seasons leading up to 2020, this story takes place in a public community garden in Bonn, Germany, in a small lot surrounded by low-rise apartment buildings, in a quiet part of town not far from the Rhine. There was once a playground on this site, but it fell into disrepair and disuse. Increasingly overgrown with plant life – and thus shielded from street view – the abandoned playground was subsequently used primarily by people consuming drugs and alcohol.
2015 – 2021GermanyTemporal Coverage: 2015/2021 (2020s,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2020s,2021,2010s,2020s,) Read Story - Public Undergrounds: The rise of alternative drug cultures and the invention of the “Scene”
In the early 1970s, the emerging narcotic cultures of West-Berlin not only drew the attention of the public and the media, but came into the focus of academics and public health institutions, First studies and surveys were conducted with one paper standing out in particular. It was entitled “Drug Consumers Underground” [Drogenkonsumenten im Underground] and authored by a collective of young social workers, drug users and educators, some of them with aliases.
1970 – 1975West-BerlinTemporal Coverage: 1970/1975 (1970,1970s,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1970s,1970s,) Read Story - Travel through an Ideal City of Marginalised Drugs Users
Look at this picture. It’s a huge drawing of how an ideal city could look – but not just any ideal city: the city of drug users, imagined from a variety of marginalized positions.
2019UtopiaTemporal Coverage: 2019 (2010s,) Read Story - Narcotic Struggles: Hash Rebels and the Fight for Alternative Spaces in West Berlin
In the mid-1960s, West Berlin saw the first glimpses of an emerging public drug scene, which would become a widespread phenomenon in the decades to come.
1964 – 1969West-BerlinTemporal Coverage: 1964/1969 (2020s,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1960s,1960s,) Read Story -
2 Files Zurich · in German
AUTONOMOUS CULTURE WORKSHOP/WORKCITY, TOORICHde »AUTONOME KULTURWERKSTADT WOHLGROTH, ZUREICH«
In this leaflet, the squatters of the Autonome Kulturwerkstad(t)t Wohlgroth look back on the two and a half years since the occupation. Among other things, they discuss the closure of the consumption room, the sleep-in for drug consumers, and the women's emergency shelter. It is not their job, they say, "to solve the social problems of the city." Since the closure, "dealing and consumption of hard drugs are no longer tolerated. But that doesn't mean, of course, that we exclude junkies on principle."
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: squats, drugs policy, drug consumption, drug trafficking, solidarity, activism,
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2 Files Zurich · in German
The stuff dreams are made ofde »Der Stoff, aus dem die Träume sind«
The leaflet informs about a "pause for reflection" during which the women's emergency shelter and the sanitary room (consumption room) in the occupied Wohlgroth factory are to remain closed. The reason is problems with drug use and dealing; the "open drug scene" at Platzspitz is only a few hundred metres away from the Wohlgroth.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: squat, drug consumption, drug trafficking, drugs policy,
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Zurich · in German
INVITATION[:] WOHLGROTH WHERETOde »EINLADUNG[:] WOHLGROTH WOHIN«
The leaflet informs about a "pause for reflection" during which the women's emergency shelter and the sanitary room (consumption room) in the occupied Wohlgroth factory are to remain closed. The reason is problems with drug use and dealing; the "open drug scene" at Platzspitz is only a few hundred metres away from the Wohlgroth.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: squat, drug consumption, drug trafficking, consumption room, emergency shelter,
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Zurich · in German
EVENT CALENDARde »VERANSTALTUNGS-KALENDER«
The last entry of the first calendar of events of the Wohlgroth factory occupied on 18.5.1991 reads: "How do we deal with heroin/cocaine/FreeBase etc.?"
(Type: packing paper)
(Format: ca. 180 x 80 cm)
Subjects: drug consumption, squats,
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Zurich · in German
I SET MYSELF ON FIRE...!de »ICH ZÜND MICH AN...!«
Leaflet with notes by S., who burned herself to death at Bellevue in Zurich on 12.12.1980.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: activism, 80s movement, drug consumption, autonomous youth centre,
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2 Files Zurich · in German
GRASS NOT GAS [Call for demonstration]de »GRAS STATT GAS [Demo-Aufruf]«
The Abeitsgruppe Drogen (Drugs Working Group) of the AJZ Zurich introduces itself and its goals and calls for a demonstration.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: activism, autonomous youth centre, drug consumption, 80s movement,
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2 Files in German
LEGAL AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN CAPITALIST SOCIETYde »LEGALE UND ILLEGALE DROGEN IN DER KAPITALISTISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT«
The leaflet describes the social functions of legal and illegal drugs. Alcohol generates profits and keeps the population calm. Illegal drugs also generate large profits and at the same time they keep the non-integrated parts of the population quiet. The latter not so much because of the consumption itself but because of the criminalisation that keeps the users on their toes and puts politically active people behind prison bars.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: drug consumption, legal drugs, illegal drugs, capitalism,
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Zurich · in German
KRIEGSERKLÄRUNG. ALLGEMEINE MOBILMACHUNG DER ANTI-H-DEALER-- »KRIEGSERKLÄRUNG. ALLGEMEINE MOBILMACHUNG DER ANTI-H-DEALER«
The Zurich Autonomous Youth Centre (AJZ) opposes the increasing trade in hashish and heroin. Traffickers should be thrown out and the "poison" thrown away.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: drug trafficking, autonomous youth centre, 80s movement, drug consumption, heroin, hashish,
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Zurich · in German
AKTION FREIRAUMde »AKTION FREIRAUM«-- »CAMPAIGN OPEN SPACE«
With this leaflet from the late 1980s or early 1990s, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Platzspitz advocates for open spaces as a low-cost form of addiction prevention.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: prevention, open spaces, drug consumption,
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Zurich · in German
Self help campaign Pro Kreis 4de »Selbsthilfeaktion Pro Kreis 4«
Call by right-wing circles for self-help against "slumification", squatting, drug use and trafficking, "freeloaders" and left-wing harm reduction policies.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: vigilante group, harm reduction, self-help, drug trafficking, drug consumption,
- From Queer Ecstasy to Queer Sobriety
Queer cultures are more than often associated with partying practices and also with drug consumption.
2011 – 2021Temporal Coverage: 2011/2021 (2020s,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2020s,2021,2010s,2020s,) Read Story -
Germany · in German
An ideal city for marginalised drug users in Germanyde »Eine ideale Stadt für marginalisierte Drogenkonsument*innen«
Drawn after a series of participative mapping workshops led in Berlin and Frankfurt in 2019, this image depicts how an ideal city could look like from the point of view of marginalised drug users. Not only drug consumption (yellow), but also housing (green), safety (blue), health (orange) and transportation (pink) are crucial issues. Thus the drawing present an alternative planing of the city.
(Type: picture)
(Format: 100 x 100 cm)
Subjects: planing; utopia ,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Self-regulation in the scenede »Selbstregulation in der Szene«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Meeting place for everyonede »Treffpunkte für alle«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Awareness campaigns about drugsde »Über Drogen informieren«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Better substitution therapy (2)
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Providing and disposing of consumption ustensilsde »Konsummaterialien besorgen und entsorgen«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Social workers in the streetsde »Sozialarbeiter*innen in den Strassen«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Mobile consumption rooms everywherede »Mobile Konsumräume überall«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
More consumption rooms, for everyonede »Mehr Drogenkonsumräume, für alle«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Decriminalization-- »Decriminalization«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Safety,
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Bordeaux · in French
COVID and drug users in Bordeaux: interview of Olivier Capdeboscq, La Casefr »COVID et usagèr.e.s de drogue à Bordeaux: interview d'Olivier Capdeboscq, La Case«
Interview d'Olivier Capdeboscq, coordinateur de La Case à Bordeaux, structure de réduction des risques et d'accueil des usagèr.e.s de drogue, à propos des enjeux liés au COVID. L'interview aborde les questions liées à l'hébergement, l'espace public, la santé, la réduction des risques et évoque le projet d'ouverture d'une salle de consommation.
(Type: Video)
(Format: 51 minutes)
Subjects: covid-19, harm reduction, homelessness, community, solidarity, self-organisation, health, drug consumption room,
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2 Files Frankfurt · in German, English
In the drug consumption room (Frankfurt)de »Im Drogenkonsumraum (Frankfurt)«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Close-up of an Emotional Mapping Collage)
Subjects: Drug support, drug use,
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2 Files Frankfurt · in German, English
Drug consumption in public (Frankfurt)de »Drogenkonsum in der Öffentlichkeit (Frankfurt)«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Close-up of an Emotional Mapping Collage)
Subjects: drug use, public spaces,
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Bordeaux · in French, English
La ville vécue des usagers et usagères de La Case à Bordeaux-- »La ville vécue des usagers et usagères de La Case à Bordeaux«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Emotional Mapping Collage)
(Format: 100 x 70 cm)
Subjects: Drug consummers, Housing, Health, Police, Marginalization, Transportation, Family, Harm Reduction, Drug help facilities, Drug consumption rooms, Emotions, Cartography,
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2 Files Munich · in German, English
Drug consumption in public (Munich)de »Drogenkonsum in der Öffentlichkeit (München)«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Close-up of an Emotional Mapping Collage)
Subjects: drug use, public spaces,
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2 Files Nuremberg · in German, English
Drug consumption in public (Nuremberg)de »Drogenkonsum in der Öffentlichkeit (Nürnberg)«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Close-up of an Emotional Mapping Collage)
Subjects: drug use, public spaces,
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2 Files Berlin · in German, English
In the drug consumption room (Berlin)de »Im Drogenkonsumraum (Berlin)«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Close-up of an Emotional Mapping Collage)
Subjects: Drug support, drug use,
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Amsterdam Nation-Map of Junkie Mokum-- »Amsterdam Nation-Map of Junkie Mokum«
Image of hard-drug related places and spaces in the Amsterdam City Center in the 1970s and 1980s.
(Type: poster)
Subjects: Places of drug use, sale, addiction treatment, drug related crime,
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Munich · in German, English
München: Der gelebte Raum von Drogenkonsument_innen-- »München: Der gelebte Raum von Drogenkonsument_innen«
(Type: Emotional Mapping Collage)
(Format: 100 x 70 cm)
Subjects: Drug consummers, Housing, Health, Police, Marginalization, Transportation, Family, Harm Reduction, Drug help facilities, Drug consumption rooms, Emotions, Cartography,
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Nuremberg · in German, English
Nürnberg: Der gelebte Raum von Drogenkonsument_innen-- »Nürnberg: Der gelebte Raum von Drogenkonsument_innen«
(Type: Emotional Mapping Collage)
(Format: 100 x 70 cm)
Subjects: Drug consummers, Housing, Health, Police, Marginalization, Transportation, Family, Harm Reduction, Drug help facilities, Drug consumption rooms, Emotions, Cartography,
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Berlin · in German, English
Berlin Neukölln: Der gelebte Raum von Drogenkonsument_innen-- »Berlin Neukölln: Der gelebte Raum von Drogenkonsument_innen«
(Type: Emotional Mapping Collage)
(Format: 100 x 70 cm)
Subjects: Drug consummers, Housing, Marginalization, Transportation, Family, Work, Harm Reduction, Drug help facilities, Emotions, Cartography, Map,
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Frankfurt · in German, English
Frankfurt am Main: Der gelebte Raum von Drogenkonsument_innen-- »Frankfurt am Main: Der gelebte Raum von Drogenkonsument_innen«
(Type: Emotional Mapping Collage)
(Format: 100 x 70 cm)
Subjects: Drug consummers, Housing, Health, Police, Marginalization, Transportation, Family, Harm Reduction, Drug help facilities, Drug consumption rooms, Emotions, Cartography,
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Sweden · in Swedish
Queer Edge Manifest 2011-- »Queer Edge Manifest 2011«
A manifesto for a political critic of alcohol and drug consumption in queer events, presented at the Queertopia festival in Sweden, 2011.
(Type: Flyer)
(Format: DIN A4)
Subjects: alcohol, drugs, sobriety, festival, queer,
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