Citizen Art Days // Kooperative Kunststrategien und Beteiligungspotentiale im öffentlichen Raum

Belgrade - The Toolkit Project Exchange with Berlin- Citizen Art Days

Marjetica Potrč — 2013-07-29T21:23:45Z

Students of Design for the Living World, HFBK Hamburg with Marjetica Potrč and participants of The Citizen Art Days discuss participatory practices and exchange of knowledge with residents on two locations, in Belgrade and in Berlin.

The Toolkit, Foto: Till Richter

The Toolkit, Foto: Till Richter

Design for the Living World is a class on participatory practice by Marjetica Potrč at Hochschule für bildende Künste HFBK in Hamburg. From September 15 - November 18 2013 Design for the Living World engage with The Toolkit Project in Savamala district of Belgrade. Students work with residents to acquire a particular craft and learn about the social and economic systems that support it. The Toolkit Project is part of Belgrade Urban Incubator and it is supported by the Goethe Institute Belgrade, the City of Belgrade and the Municipality of Savski Venac and HFBK Hamburg.

Students of Design for the Living World, HFBK Hamburg in St.Lambrecht, Foto: Pater Gerwig

Students of Design for the Living World,
HFBK Hamburg in St.Lambrecht, 2011
Foto: Pater Gerwig

[(The Citizen Art Days 2013 will take place from September, 27th to October, 6th 2013. Please note that the program is not yet finally fixed. Exact dates for the various events will be announced.)]

Karma economy

Van Bo Le-Mentzel — 2013-07-26T12:07:56Z

Le Van Bo's idea is to enable access to high-quality and timeless design for many people. His Hartz IV furniture series is not for sale, since the process of self-assembly is crucial.

Citizen Art Days support the crowdfunding campaign for the construction of the Unreal Estate House und want to use it for the CAD13.

www.startnext.de/unreal-estate-house

Musicircus

Sigune von Osten — 2013-07-26T11:25:20Z

Musicircus is an idea related to public space of the composer, visual artist, poet, philosopher, Zen follower and mushroom expert John Cage. It consists of a single phrase with instructions and the announcement of the time and place for those who would like to participate in an artistic performance at the same time in the same place together with others. It is nothing less than an organized chaos and the dissolution of boundaries, the interaction between arts and everyday life.

The internationally known singer and music artist Sigune von Osten, who knew Cage personally, will create her Musicircus on the occasion of this year's Citizen Art Days in Berlin and direct all contributors.

www.artpoint-th.com

Eranosdialogue

Christiane ten Hoevel — 2013-07-26T11:12:42Z

Eranos in ancient Greece was originally a meal with friends to which each guest contributed something. In a figurative sense, Eranos is a spiritual feast, to which the invitees bring something of their own, for example a speech, a song, a contribution of whatsever kind, or the openness to improvise together creatively in a discussion. The common spiritual acting characterizes Erano's meals with friends and guests. The underlying idea is that each individual can make a personal contribution. The resulting common “We” offers the possibility for something new to emerge.

“Eranosdialogtreffen” (Erano's dialogue meetings) take place since 2012 in different locations and can be initiated by anyone.

How to change - applied post-growth economy

Boris Woynowski — 2013-07-26T10:52:53Z

In view of ecological, social and economic crises, an economic growth that exceeds the tolerance of the ecosystem boundaries neither appears to be a sustainable option, nor a desirable development trend. Thus, individual and social change processes are required to ensure long-term prosperity and quality of life. These transition processes - away from the focus on economic growth and moving towards socially and ecologically tolerable economic practices and lifestyles with the goal of a cohesive post-growth economy or post-growth society – are summarized as "growth turn”.

Boris Woynowski's and the members' of the “Förderverein Wachstumswende e.V.” (a registered supportive association supporting growth turn) declared goal in relation to this socio-ecological transformation towards a post-growth economy or post-growth society according to the bylaws is

– to analyze with scientific methods
– to realize ecologically and socially responsible forms of business and lifestyles themselves and
– to make the knowledge about it accessible to public and politics the form of education

In this context, the association pursues the non-profit interest of promoting education.

Boris Woynowski assumes the introduction of the theme day »P-Day«

More about the theme day Applied post-growth economy

Citizens Campus Mentorship

Susanne Bosch — 2013-07-26T10:26:12Z

Citizens are the driving force for change and the experts of their everyday life and they are also those who can offer the most creative and sometimes sustainable ideas for their personal environment. For me, the "Citizens Campus" is an intervention of citizens aiming at the sustainable changing of the urban environment. The civil campus for me stands for the idea of a "social organism" where spirituality, openness, creativity and imagination, which are already existent in everyone of us, can flourish. These skills only need to be recognized, trained and promoted. The "Citizens Campus" can thus be regarded as a kind of support program for these skills.

I'm looking forward to supporting the realization and specification of these ideas.

To the "Citizens Campus" projects

Frame Talks

Shelley Sacks — 2013-07-26T10:06:10Z

A twenty-four hour action

A mobile instrument made of a steel frame covered with deerskin creates a place where we encounter the ideas, values and habits with which we shape our lives and our society. However, Frame Talks not only provides a space for us to encounter these ideas, but we also move them at the same time - Frame Talks is a rethinking space.

While talking about topics such as progress, growth and freedom through the large rectangulous space that was cut out of the center of the deer skin, we always have this real skin of a non-human being between us, which constantly reminds us of the question how we live in the world.

This 3x12 hours' exchange is interrupted only by hourly ostinatos on the progress of the process, and it is also a space for capacity building. A space to develop invisible skills such as active listening and creative imagination. The exchange can take place anywhere. The process is open insofar as it can take place both with organized groups as well as in a open, participatory form.

[(The Citizen Art Days 2013 will take place from September, 27th to October, 6th 2013. Please note that the program is not yet finally fixed. Exact dates for the various events will be announced.)]

Faculty trade

Jaana Prüss — 2013-06-14T20:16:22Z

Do it yourself as a new life attitude is the policy of the act.

The "market of faculty" presents illustrative projects, such as the models - Borrow instead of owning -DIY instead of buying - Repairing, converting, upgrading instead of wasting or practices of exchange economy. The focus is also to share and multiply knowledge and to provide useful knowledge for action (without consumption).

Everyone has individual talents, gifts, skills and knowledge that could bring value to the community which could be offered as an exchange for a service like bike repair, haircut, massage, tutoring, cleaning windows, official letters, etc.

Starting from the thesis "CREATIVITY = CAPITAL" (Joseph Beuys) the market is an experiment of open-workshops, where skills can be taught and learned. The common generated value through repairs and donated time units during the CAD period is tried to be calculated at the end.

The goal is to compile a reader as a sustainability guide and platform for addresses and contacts of initiatives, repair shops, neighborhood groups, workshops, courses, swap shops, flea markets, etc.

The aim is furthermore to establish a network for a growing, open and sustainable "market of skills" depending on the participating citizens, protagonists and participants.