Right to protest and police brutality in anti-fiscal reform mobilisations It’s raining cats and dogs outside, but I can hear the crowds shouting from Carrera 7. They must be soaked in rain, feeling exhausted and terrified – and yet, powerfully enjoying their right to protests against Colombian fiscal reform. Mobilisations have been incessantly going on…
Author: Martifuorimura
Why Fuori Mura
I was walking back home from work the other day when it hit me. I was thinking, “should I go to the supermarket directly or I better go home first, drop my stuff and then, go to the supermarket? Well, my backpack it’s actually quite heavy (I filled a 3 litres water bottle at work,…
7 things I’ve learnt in my first 48 hours in Bogotà
On Wednesday, March 24th I woke up in Bogotà, Colombia. I immediately felt tired, thirsty, hungry and incredibly excited. Ahead of me were what I knew were going to be the first, and most intense hours of my entire experience. The first 48h are always insane: you don’t know the place and you need to…
Q&A about Bogotà!
Answering 10 of the most common questions I’ve got in my first month in Bogotà in the middle of a pandemic!
Bogotà was meant to be
One month ago, I was in the countryside of Charleroi, a small city close to Brussels, Belgium. I was quarantined in the middle of nowhere, it was constantly raining and I spent most of my day baking bread and playing with a very cute dog, Mazzu. Today, one month later, here I am in Bogotà,…
I ended up in Colombia in the middle of the pandemic
Are you stuck at home, reminiscing your pre-pandemic life, made of traveling and working abroad? Are you worried about your future especially work-wise? That was me about 2 months ago. In this video I’m tell you how I have managed to overcome that and how I ended up working in Bogotà in the middle of…
The ultimate guide to Colombian fruit
Tasting the local fruit was one of the things I was absolutely most looking forward to in Colombia. I have always loved fruit, yet here my fruit passion has almost reached insanity levels. The first time I went to the market I bumped into so much sparkling color fruit I had never seen before. Maracuyá,…
School-स्कूल
When, in 2018, I first set foot in a school in India I didn’t know that that was the place I was going to spend most of my time during the whole semester (as part of my Masters, I studied at Savitribai Phule Pune University for six months). My mother is a teacher and I…
The Squatting Effect
“Squatting, the occupation of empty properties for housing needs and/or for the promotion of social activities, has been a widespread place-making practice in Europe since the 1970s. To the cry of “Right to the city!”, those who have been defined by Pruijt as “Conservational Squatters” reclaim a more sustainable understanding of the city, advocating for urban renewal as…
India: towards Right to Education?
“The Republic of India is deemed one of the emerging superpowers of the world. With a 8.4% GDP rate and a extremely rapidly expanding market, not only it has been meritorious of BRICs membership in 2009, it has also become world’s fastest growing economy in 2018. Economic success notwithstanding, numerous are the endemic evils Indian…