kassel postkolonial
'kassel postkolonial' is an association of people that has existed since 2015, who are committed to a critical view of Kassel's colonial past and present. With this project, we attempt to draw connections between Kassel's role in historical colonialism and our everyday life, as well as to look at Kassel's interconnectedness with global social developments. This means taking a look at power relations, trade routes, or architectures, consciously taking both their history and their present seriously. We explicitly try to grasp the power of colonial ideology and rule and their continuities, which is so little noticed in Europe, the FRG and Kassel. Traces of colonialism can also be found everywhere in Kassel, often without being perceived as such. They shape the city in which we move in many ways - and thus also us.