BASECAMP

2 May 2025

Academy of Democratic Modernity educational session

72 hour seminar organised by the Academy of Democratic Modernity

In the 21st century, humanity finds itself in an unprecedented systemic crisis. Whether it’s ecological catastrophe, the escalation of wars, the political crisis of parliamentary democracies, or the global advance of nationalism and fascism, they are all expressions of the deep crisis into which capitalist modernity has plunged humanity and nature. The growth of new feminist, ecological, anti-colonial and democratic movements must be understood as a reaction to the general systemic crisis. However the alternative remains to this day disorganized, fragmented and without a strategic and unifying proposal of common organization. A real opposition to the system and a radical moral, political and intellectual renewal with a global perspective are needed.

The paradigm of democratic modernity with its three pillars of radical democracy, women’s liberation and ecology, is not a concept that is relevant only to the societies of Kurdistan and the Middle East, but far beyond and has the potential to touch us all on an intimate level as persons in struggle. In order to discuss about the global perspectives of the democratic modernity paradigm, The Academy of Democratic Modernity will host a 72 hour educational session at Bak, basecamp starting from the 2nd to the 5th of May.

This seminar will be an introduction and deepening of the democratic, ecological and women's liberation paradigm. A challenge we face as people looking for an alternative way of life and solutions to the systemic problems of the world is how to live and work together. In order to learn the path of communalism, the seminar will transform the space of the basecamp intoa space where all participants will live together for 72 hours. This includes taking on the activities of cooking, cleaning and taking care of our space and each other collectively. The seminar in this format becomes a exercise into communalist path.

Friday 2nd - Sunday May 4rd
on invitation