Event Manifesto*

Traces of the City in the Anthropocene

The world has now become a fragile palimpsest,
composed of the traces left together by the human and the more-than-human.
Cities are both the producers and the carriers of these traces.
Ecological, social, political, and sensory processes
intersect here in their most concentrated form.

In the Anthropocene,
we read the city not as a completed form,
but as a multilayered formation
that is continuously written, erased, and reconstructed.

Every street,
every void,
every crack
carries the trace of a rupture, an encounter,
a possibility.

This call is directed toward making visible
the sediments of the past
on the palimpsest surface of layered cities,
and toward imagining futures that have not yet emerged.

The manifesto here is not merely a text.
It may be an action, an image, an object, an experience,
or a silent gesture.

Suspending the rigid frames between utopia and dystopia,
we invite the collective production of
open-ended, experimental, and plural urban imaginaries
emerging from multiple ecological relations.

Because the Palimpsest City
is not only the city of what has been,
but of what is becoming,
and of the futures that can be built together.