Session Information
13 SES 09, Twilight Of The City
Symposium
Contribution
Zinneke is a biannual street parade in Brussels. During the parade, 2.500 people march and dance through the city centre. The parade is a mixture of different populations living in Brussels: homeless, school children, EU civil servants, handicapped, youngsters, refugees, the elderly, and so on. Zinneke could be analyzed as an intervention connecting divided populations, an antidote overcoming fear and creating unity. It would then be a means to overcome the city or to build the city like a design or plan. It could however also be possible to define Zinneke as an intensification of the city. This would mean as a space where strangeness and difference exist in identity and intimacy. The parade then intensifies a togetherness of strangers that is not unity. This is closeness without bond or connection. Considering Zinneke Parade as a space for co-existence with others without a safe, unified community leads to a different conception of education in relation to the city. Education would no longer be the building of community, but the exposition of the way in which we exist with others. This is a way of thinking education that is consistent with the city and not an effort to overcome it.
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