The initiative was founded in 2015 and advocates for a critical view of Kassel’s colonial past and present.
On its website, the initiative writes:
“With this project, we are making an attempt to draw connections between Kassel’s role in historical colonialism and our everyday lives today, 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 and deliberately taking both their history and their present seriously. We explicitly try to grasp the impact 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 so they shape us.”