Researchers and artists build a modern monument to freedom with pupils
How free do children and young people feel? What do they understand by their own freedom and the freedom of others? Researchers from the WZB together with artists are travelling to twelve schools across Germany from April to July with these questions. Under the motto “denk!mal Freiheit” (think freedom / monument freedom), they invite pupils to develop their images of freedom and express their ideas and dreams in animated films together with TRICKMISCH.
Meanwhile, the big denk!mal Freiheit, an installation that brings together everything that will be developed until autumn, is being created at our location Falscher Fisch: a testimony to our varied exploration of the many facets of the contested concept of freedom.
We are already looking forward to 20 September, when we invite everyone to our city lab “Falscher Fisch” in Neukölln!
PROGRAMME
20 September 2024, 12-22 h
Location: Falscher Fisch, Ziegrastr. 1, 12057 Berlin
During the day:
12-1 pm | Opening with official greeting, tour with press & invited guests
1-3.30 pm | Games & hands-on activities for children and the young at heart:
– Further tours for schoolchildren & other guests
– TryOut with Monobloc installations: small Sitting Conference, the denk!mal to take away!
– ViceVersaVision & digital experiments with Trickmisch
– Play, dance and movement, performative confrontations with monobloc chairs
– Creative boxes for a collective denk!mal
Food & drinks
Evening:
4 – 10 pm | dance performance, exchange in a relaxed setting, music concert, beer garden
We are open again on 11 October!
12-10 pm | Falscher Fisch, Ziegrastr. 1, 12057 Berlin
During the day:
12 – 4 pm
– Further tours for pupils & other guests
– Building action
In the evening:
4 – 10 pm | Exchange in a relaxed setting, music, beer garden
– depending on the weather, we may move inside (unfortunately not barrier-free).
The project is part of the Science Year, which is dedicated to freedom in 2024. Further information on the project can be found at https://wzb.eu/de/das-wzb/denkmal-freiheit-wzb-projekt-im-wissenschaftsjahr-2024.
Preparations are underway. Impressions from Falscher Fisch. Photos: Félix de Casteljau, Nele Düll, Luis Krummenacher.
Artists from the Trickmisch mobile language laboratory, pupils and researchers from the WZB transformed classrooms into freedom labs. The Ein Quadratkilometer Bildung foundation recruited schools from their local education networks in various federal states for the project. Photos: Julia Kapelle, Silke Lock, Simone Grellmann, Mario Hartmann.
In cooperation with:
//The denk!mal FREIHEIT project is being funded in the Science Year 2024.
The Science Year 2024 is an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) together with Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD).
