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Creative Platform Inde is a squatted autonomous social and cultural centre in the coastal city Koper. Appropriated in 2014 by a multitude of local cultural activists, artists, students and others, the place is now a collectively and horizontally run space for various non-profit activities, be them sports, concerts, arts exhibitions, charity projects or just plain socialising. As such, it is a continuous social experiment and a initiative with aims wider than just of a cultural or youth centre.

Besides having primarily a spatial dimension, INDE is also a web platform publishing various reflections (in Slovene, English and Italian) and also a collective that is running the place by way of assembly meetings.

U.P.I. INDE Koper from a 250 quadcopter by FotoVidx on YouTube

Background

From the early nineties onwards, one of the main centres for alternative cultural expressions in the coastal region was the MKC Koper Youth and Culture Centre, run by the Association of the Friends of Moderate Progress. It functioned as a youth centre of a sorts and was open for various outside cultural producers. At same time Marko Brecelj, the leading figure of the Association of the Friends of Moderate Progress, was also politically very vocal and as one can gather, this was not welcomed by the local politicos. In 2014, the place was – in spite of a country-wide public outcry – reclaimed by the Municipality of Koper.

Consequently, the various local cultural protagonists and initiatives that were hosted at the MKC remained without a domicile and so took things into their own hands. As many of them adhered to the punk and DIY ethics, squatting an abandoned factory grounds was a logical next step.

INDE used to be a factory which employed disabled peoples (hence the name, Invalidna delavnica – The Disabled Workshop) and which was run to the ground during the transition years. It stood abandoned since 2004. Spread by word of mouth, the act of renovating it into a communal centre was a collective endeavour (with even people from Austria joining in) which led to cleaning up the place, fixing its basic infrastructure and preparing two halls witha stage, a DJ area, a lounge area and various other facilities. Later, a skate park was also built.

Currently, the squat and it protagonists are in the midst of legality issues, with the owners filing judicial actions. How things will evolve remains to be seen.

Programme

The programme at INDE started in the winter 2015 and since than, the place has had concerts (from HC and punk gigs to ) and DJ events (techno, drum'n'bass, dub, reggae), movie nights, numerous skate and BMX sessions and some competitions, table tennis matches, photography exhibitons, MC evenings and lots of other stuff.

External links

Creative Platform INDE website (in English and Italian)

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-[[Creative Platform Inde]] is a squat in the coastal city Koper, which was appropriated in [[established::2014]] by the local youth after their previous youth centre was reorganised by the local municipality. Subsequently, the already active culture producers took over the grounds of the old factory INDE (Invalidska delavnica), until then not used from 2004, and gave it new content opf music, workshops and other stuff.
+[[Creative Platform Inde]] is a squatted autonomous social and cultural centre in the coastal city Koper. Appropriated in 2014 by a multitude of local cultural activists, artists, students and others, the place is now a collectively and horizontally run space for various non-profit activities, be them sports, concerts, arts exhibitions, charity projects or just plain socialising. As such, it is a continuous social experiment and a initiative with aims wider than just of a cultural or youth centre.
+Besides having primarily a spatial dimension, INDE is also a web platform publishing various reflections (in Slovene, English and Italian) and also a collective that is running the place by way of assembly meetings.
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-ebpage with articles
-otografsko razstavo, predstavili so tudi knjigo Časopis za kritiko znanosti, imeli so vegansko večerjo, free shop, skupščino i
-Začel z javnim delovanjem zima a2015
-neprofitno druženje, prosto ustvarjalno izražanje, ustvarjanje, izmenjavo idej in praks, koncertiranje, razstavljanje itd.
-social experiment of autonoums socialtiy
-Collective horizontal leadership.
-Alternativa MKC; it is not a youth centre, but a wider project for creating a space of freedom - not only for youth and alternative culture, but for any initiatives for the common benefit.
-autonoous
-A social space - not a place for cultural consumption, but for co-creation. In the wider coastal region.
-Contrary to other sqats, the squating was a collective endevqaour of dozens even hundreds of interested people.
-Bivša invalidska delavnica, Disabled workshops factory
-sport, table tennis,
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 ==Background==
-From the early 90s, the society  Association of the Friends of Moderate Progress has been using the MKC Koper Youth and Culture Centre and that was the main alternative culture centre in Koper. As nit was alzternative not ju8st aesthetically but also had a political dimension, one can gather it was not welcomed by the local politicos and at the start of 2015, the operating right weret taken away from Brecelj.
-After a public outcry on a national level, thingsa did not change, the local youth - many of them much in to the punk and IDY rhics, took over Inde. new stage and the DJ area, clear out the drains, sand the walls of the future kitchen and hallway, plug holes with concrete, tidy up the exterior, systemized the waste disposal… fellow supporters from Austria. They gladly offered to aid and
+From the early nineties onwards, one of the main centres for alternative cultural expressions in the coastal region was the [[MKC Koper Youth and Culture Centre]], run by the [[Association of the Friends of Moderate Progress]]. It functioned as a youth centre of a sorts and was open for various outside cultural producers. At same time Marko Brecelj, the leading figure of the Association of the Friends of Moderate Progress, was also politically very vocal and as one can gather, this was not welcomed by the local politicos. In 2014, the place was &ndash; in spite of a country-wide public outcry &ndash; reclaimed by the [[Municipality of Koper]].
+Consequently, the various local cultural protagonists and initiatives that were hosted at the MKC remained without a domicile and so took things into their own hands. As many of them adhered to the punk and DIY ethics, squatting an abandoned factory grounds was a logical next step.
-As a proper squat, it is now having legality issues and currently the owners are fighting a lawsuit to empty the place up. How things will evolve remains to be seen.
+INDE used to be a factory which employed disabled peoples (hence the name, ''Invalidna delavnica'' &ndash; The Disabled Workshop) and which was run to the ground during the transition years. It stood abandoned since 2004. Spread by word of mouth, the act of renovating it into a communal centre was a collective endeavour (with even people from Austria joining in) which led to cleaning up the place, fixing its basic infrastructure and preparing two halls witha stage, a DJ area, a lounge area and various other facilities. Later, a skate park was also built.
-temveč del rešitve: zato smo izvedli spontano samoorganizirano akcijo zasedbe dveh prostorov že deset let zapuščene in propadajoče tovarne INDE,
+Currently, the squat and it protagonists are in the midst of legality issues, with the owners filing judicial actions. How things will evolve remains to be seen.
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 ==Programme==
-The FIRST skate contest in the new INDE Skatepark took place on Saturday, 26th September 2015. The organizers were local skaters with the help from the Indean team (UPI Collective)  The event continued with a BBQ and a concert – the coastal bands Korte sexperience (punk/ska) and Recession (slave rock) and HC bend Kreshesh Nepitash from Trbovlje.
+The programme at INDE started in the winter [[established::2015]] and since than, the place has had concerts (from HC and punk gigs to ) and DJ events (techno, drum'n'bass, dub, reggae), movie nights, numerous skate and BMX sessions and some competitions, table tennis matches, photography exhibitons, MC evenings and lots of other stuff.
-BMX competition
-Ali: We arrived late, but not so much to miss Ali on hip hop and drumnbass rhythms. Undoubtedly one of the hottest MC’s currently in the Land below the Alps. Strong and energetic vocals in combination with hiphop gangsta rhythms. We would point out his rapping on drumnbass bases … We want more…
-Kalifat Dub: In big anticipation of a new project from well-known Haris Pilton, this time in the project KalifatDub with MC Chakka, Haris gave us a bit of a scare because while taking up the stage he fell down in all his glory. Fortunately for us he quickly recovered. KalifatDub started their bass wheelwork and took us through the Balkans and the Arab world with a view of our beloved island of Jamaica.  Gently but intensely we were carried away into dreamland by the mixture of genres in Kalifat Dub dub-reggae bases…. An excellent project from two veterans of the Balkan scene! Rakia for all!!
-Jahklin selekta (Jamcoast): Our Jahklin selekta arrived on the scene a little late with a bottle of water in his hands, which was promising a drumnbas-jungle spectacle. He started with a few reggae songs on vinyl but quickly switched to old school jungle. This was followed by some newer jungle pieces; before he switched to drumnbass … He finished it with a great reggae / dubwise selection. Jungle is a MUST!
-singer-songwriter Aerial Ruin
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Background

Programme

See also

External links

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