Rog factory is an industrial complex on the east edge of Ljubljana centre, which produced the famous Rog bicycles and was shut down in 1991. Since then it has remained abandoned, empty, and in deterioration for 15 years. In 2006 the area was occupied by students, artists and activists as a critical response to the post-socialist transition process (privatisation and deindustrialisation), and erosion of public and social spaces (individualisation and atomisation of society). The occupation’s legitimacy rests on the need for places for non-formal artistic, cultural and political activities (autonomy, alternative culture, horizontal political organising).

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