UvA Green Office

Come along for our final lecture of the year 💚

‘Claiming Space in the City: Mapuche Organising and Urban Struggles’ by Dana Brablecova examines Indigenous-Mapuche organising in Santiago de Chile in the context of the increasing urbanisation of Indigenous peoples worldwide.

📍 REC A1.02
🗓️ 15 June
🕦 17:30

As Indigenous populations are becoming predominantly urban, understanding how indigeneity is organised, enacted, and contested in cities has become increasingly important. The Mapuche case offers a particularly illustrative example of these broader dynamics. Drawing on ethnographic research, the presentation focuses on how Mapuche groups develop collective activities-such as ceremonies, workshops, and community events-and how struggles over space emerge through these practices. These activities require stable or recurrent access to urban spaces and function not only as cultural expressions but also as organisational strategies that challenge exclusion and negotiate visibility within the city.

The presentation shows that spatial struggles arise as Mapuche organisations seek to secure, occupy, or symbolically appropriate space in a context shaped by bureaucratic constraints and unequal power relations. By linking everyday organising practices to broader spatial claims, the analysis highlights how Mapuche groups actively reconfigure urban space and produce new forms of belonging and urban indigeneity.

Dm us for more info! See you there 🍀

We’ve launched a survey 🌈 We’re aiming to gather information on how much the students know, and what they think about the campus sustainability policies (mostly in REC).

We’re interested in your opinion on topics such as vegan food options, plant based milk alternatives, and more. 🌽

Link in bio. 🔗

Join us for our next edition of our Monthly Volunteer Days in collaboration with the VU Green Office. 💚

This time we’ve partnered with Pluk!Boterbloem, a pick your own garden with organically grown vegetables in the Lutkemeerpolder. 🌽

Help run their urban garden for the day, develop your gardening skills, and connect with like-minded students. 👩‍🌾

📍 Lutkemeerweg 262, 1067 TH Amsterdam
🗓️ 20 May
🕦 13-16h

Interested? Find the form to sign up via the link in our bio. 🔗 DM us if you have any questions!

See you soon 🍀

Have you visited the GO Library? 📚 Take a look through some of our hottest books available.

Our library is open weekly from 13-15h, Tuesdays-Thursdays. You can also reserve in advance by sending us a dm.

🕣 1-3pm
🗓️ Tue-Thu weekly
🏢 REC C0.01b

UvA Green Office 2026-27 team lead applications are now open! 🍀

We are looking for core team members who take sustainability seriously, who think critically about its impacts, and put that thinking into practice.

You have the exciting opportunity to facilitate and support our vibrant (volunteer) community through one of our four dynamic team lead positions: Communications, Events and Community, Research and Education, or Campus and Development.

Apply through the link in our bio 🔗

We are holding an upcycling workshop! ✂️

Do you have any clothes that could use some pre-summer TLC? Bring them along and upcycle them with scrap fabric, beads, and more! 📿

We also encourage you to bring your own beads, buttons, stamps, pins, literally anything that you think could help facelift your clothes and give them a new vibe. 🪄

🗓️ 12 May
🕣 15-18h
📍 Roeterseiland Campus V2.11

We’re holding a bread-making workshop with our friends at De Sering 🍞

Come along for an afternoon of beginner-friendly baking, hosted by our very own bread-loving team lead Eren. 🧑‍🍳 We’ll be making focaccia bread along with some delicious vegan dips. Save the date & tell your friends! 🌈

🗓️Monday 11 May
🕦14:00-17:00
📍De Sering, Rhôneweg 6

Sign up via the link in our bio. 🔗

Here’s a round up of our upcoming events coming your way in April-May 🙌

14/4: Green Office Symposium (& town hall session)
📍REC JKK.60a
🕦 14h

22/4: Lecture by Max Arto de Ploeg Bedoyan: “Climate Crisis as Colonial Crisis”.
📍REC A0.01
🕦 17.15h

11/5: Bread-making Workshop
📍more details tba

12/5: Upcycling Workshop
📍more details tba

13/5: Planting Workshop
📍more details tba

Dm us for more info, or how to get involved 🍀

✨ We have another lecture coming your way ✨ Max Arto de Ploeg Bedoyan’s talk “Climate Crisis as Colonial Crisis”.

The current destruction of our climate and the ongoing ecocide against our web of life, has it’s roots in colonialism, and if we fail to acknowledge this, we fall in the trap of focussing on symptoms rather then causes of our the climate crisis.

During this lecture the climate crisis will be explained as an outcome of more then 500 years of colonialism, from which we have to ask ourselves the question; how do we move forward? And what reparatory processes do we need to take to decolonize western institutions? Specifically, we shall think about the question; how can we organise on climate within and outside universities as social movements?

🗓️ 22 April
🕣 17:15
📍REC A0.01