Earth Forum
Shelley Sacks
You are invited to participate in an Earth Forum 'social scupture' process. The Earth Forum is a stimulating and productive way of working in small groups to explore how we live together on this planet. Earth Forum is not just another talk shop!
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Crowdfunding the commons
Platoniq
The workshop consists of two parts. In the first part, the Platoniq presents typologies of online microfinancing strategies, collective financing ("crowdfunding") and p2p credit platforms. In the second part, collective financing is tested in "analoguous" fashion.
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voice over
Dellbruegge & de Moll
Street magazines see themselves as "the voice of the homeless". Those affected talk about life on the street, addiction, migration and social injustice. However, the magazines bought often go unread as their purchase has more to do with questions of charitable contribution than interesting reading matter, with the authors' voices remaining unheard.
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Post-growth Economy
apl Prof. Niko Paech is a German economist and adjunct professor of the University of Oldenburg's chair of production and the environment. By post-economics of growth, Paech means an economic system that, in order to supply the human requirements, does not depend on economic growth, but is characterized by taking back growth.
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Post-growth Economy
apl Prof. Niko Paech is a German economist and adjunct professor of the University of Oldenburg's chair of production and the environment. By post-economics of growth, Paech means an economic system that, in order to supply the human requirements, does not depend on economic growth, but is characterized by taking back growth.
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Wenn bloss nicht immer dieser 'Nerv' wäre... Working with public and people, conflict is part of life
Susanne Bosch und Dragan Miloševski
Creative and artistic works in public spaces, participatory projects, and the concept of active citizenship involve a clash of different interests and needs, and thus a potential for conflict.
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Politics of Space – Strategies and Artistic Action
Reinigungsgesellschaft
How does the idea of a society that claims to impact upon the social living environment in a comprehensive, interventive and connecting way develop from an artistic perspective?
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Kant by Hand. The 'Critique of Pure Reason' for Craft Project and Understanding
Hanno Depner
At the boundaries of literature, philosophy, academics, and design Hanno Depner developed the book kit "Kant by Hand. The 'Critique of Pure Reason' for Craft Project and Understanding".
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Kant by Hand. The 'Critique of Pure Reason' for Craft Project and Understanding
Hanno Depner
At the boundaries of literature, philosophy, academics, and design Hanno Depner developed the book kit "Kant by Hand. The 'Critique of Pure Reason' for Craft Project and Understanding".
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"I can't sing" choir
Michael Betzner-Brandt
"I can't sing" is one of the most commonly held beliefs. By the end of this workshop, participants in the "I can't sing" choir will have changed their perspective. Michael Brandt Betzner leads non-singers through warm-up exercises and relaxing the body in motion, arriving at the beginnings of song.
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creative-sustainability-tours
id22
Worldwide pioneering tours help you discover Berlin's unique, local initiatives: DIY and open-source-urbanism, cooperative housing, community gardens, ecological architecture, cultural projects and more.
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Aesthetic of resistance
Folke Köbberling
The public space is under siege. Forced consumerism, growing public surveillance, and increased traffic congestion threaten to change the fundamental makeup of our cities. Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser are developing an aesthetic of resistance against encroaching appropriation.
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Aesthetic of resistance
Folke Köbberling
The public space is under siege. Forced consumerism, growing public surveillance, and increased traffic congestion threaten to change the fundamental makeup of our cities. Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser are developing an aesthetic of resistance against encroaching appropriation.
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senior street art
Stephanie Hanna
In this project, the visual artist offers people aged 50 and older with the chance to expand their own range of visual expression opportunities through a practical and reflective engagement with street art. Presentation and discussion.
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Artistic research about activities concerning shadow economy
Juliane Wedell
Performers and car window cleaners at street crossings, bottle collectors, used subway ticket sellers, beggars and street musicians... They all belong to the cityscape, but they move in a precarious area: the shadow economy. They are a thorn in the flesh of the authorities...
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Participatory Art Practice as Performative Criticism
Pia Lanzinger
My frequently site-specific projects are often based on cooperation with the local community. I always try to find the appropriate way to involve "partners" and their statements in my work. In my lecture I want to present some of the projects with different forms of participative action worked on to date.
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Participatory Art Practice as Performative Criticism
Pia Lanzinger
My frequently site-specific projects are often based on cooperation with the local community. I always try to find the appropriate way to involve "partners" and their statements in my work. In my lecture I want to present some of the projects with different forms of participative action worked on to date.
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The City as Field of Action. Henri Lefèbvre and the Revolution of the Cities.
Dr. Elfriede Müller
The lecture is an attempt to determine the importance of the theorist in establishing a subversive conception of the city and to see the city as the battlefield on which society settles its conflicts.
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Where can we do something together? WE?
Matthias Böttger
»Where we can do something together" is a possible definition of public space; a space where we can do anything, demand anything, and question everything. But who is the "we"? The city? Residents? Citizens? Germans? Europeans? The world?
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Wednesday: B-Day
Project groups and initiatives present themselves. With: Michael Efler (Mehr Demokratie), Kai Gregor (FIU), Hildegard Kurt (und. Institut), Shelley Sacks (social sculpture research), Superconstellation, Kurt Wilhelmi (Omnibus für Direkte Demokratie), Marianne Wagner (Freies Museum Berlin) and Christiane ten Hoevel (Eranos Gespräch).
Beuys' impulses today
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Wednesday: B-Day
Project groups and initiatives present themselves. With: Michael Efler (Mehr Demokratie), Kai Gregor (FIU), Hildegard Kurt (und. Institut), Shelley Sacks (social sculpture research), Superconstellation, Kurt Wilhelmi (Omnibus für Direkte Demokratie), Marianne Wagner (Freies Museum Berlin) and Christiane ten Hoevel (Eranos Gespräch).
Beuys' impulses today
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Kurt-Kurt. Projects for the public space
Simone Zaugg and Pfelder
It is the central question in the project Kurt-Kurt to elaborate the possibilities to re-explore temporarily the public spaces and the public as a counter movement to the privatization and commercialization, for example by means of artistic interferences and reactions.
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Superconstellation
Stefan Krüskemper & Kerstin Polzin
Superconstellation is both a performance and a discursive method of analysis of privacy in modern life. Using spatial positioning and body awareness methods, abstract issues about art and reality are brought to life and explored.
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Schwarzarbeiter (Illegal Worker)
María Linares in cooperation with kunst & kochen
Sebastiaõ comes from Angola. He wears a shirt printed with the word SCHWARZARBEITER ("ILLEGAL WORKER") and with fragments of Angola's ensign. His mission: distributing soup during the Citizen Art Days.
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Schwarzarbeiter (Illegal Worker)
María Linares in cooperation with kunst & kochen
Sebastiaõ comes from Angola. He wears a shirt printed with the word SCHWARZARBEITER ("ILLEGAL WORKER") and with fragments of Angola's ensign. His mission: distributing soup during the Citizen Art Days.
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Panel discussion
Berlin-based artist Thorsten Goldberg, will moderate a panel discussion on Citizen Art Days. Dellbrügge & de Moll, Platoniq, Shelley Sacks, and more of the participating artists and presenters will discuss the conclusion of the pilot project, and the question of civil art.
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Cooperative Art Strategies and Participation Potentials in the Public Space
Citizen Art Days means:
Design your city actively. Develope creative projects with well-known artist. Contribute own ideas concerning important issues of today. Share experiences and inspire one another!
Citizen Art Days offers:
Workshops, lectures, discussions and city excursions with and from artists for all who are interested. Creative work and exchange. The topics are: economy, sustainability and living together in the public space of Berlin.
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Citizen Art Days – Spot
Berlin 23 Mai, 2012
Alexanderplatz, Berlin