2022
A new census in Germany. It asks how many people live in Germany and how they live and work. The aim of the questionnaire is to record living conditions in order to adapt federal, state and local planning to the needs identified.
A Problem:
People who do not have permanent housing, access to work or education, who face various disadvantages, even discrimination, have no opportunity in the census environment to provide information about their specific situations and experiences. What prevents people from living well and safely and contributing to society cannot be covered by census questions.
An Answer:
In our Shadow Census project, committed actors from social groups with multiple barriers to access take matters into their own hands. They ask their peers and themselves how they feel about housing, work, public and cultural life and organise testimonies.
Methods of Diversity:
The exchange of different living conditions and experiences produces images – in the studios of S27, designed narrative spaces are created full of silhouettes, puppets and shadow figures. They are both reflection and artistic medium for self-questioning and dialogue with others.
Photos: Luis Krummenacher
SCHATTENZENSUS. The podcast
Marjan Boutorabi is one of many highly qualified people who find it difficult to contribute their professional expertise to the German labour market after immigrating to Germany. Like many refugees and migrants.
In her podcast, Marjan talks to various people about their professional careers in Germany. How do we get potential skilled workers into suitable jobs and what is the problem when this is too often unsuccessful? Marjan enquires.
The house on the Straße der Pariser Kommune is linked to many memories. For many it stands for home, for community, it was a meeting place – and now it is unfortunately being demolished. Together with the design collective criticalform, former residents spent two days talking, drawing, modelling and thinking about what a perfect (living) space would look like and what it would have to be able to do. How do we want to live? //Photos: Luis Krummenacher, 3D-scans: criticalform
Talks, collages, mappings, models, animations – what the young people have realised and developed with criticalform is impressive. We are exhibiting the results at Falscher Fisch…
A tent means travelling and arriving, adventure and security, temporary shelter. A tent is a refuge. Instead of serving as a backdrop for social projections, the young people from the refugium Lernwerkstätten (continued in the form of the BERLIN Karussell Lernwerkstätten) of our Bildungsmanufaktur let their own stories and wishes dance in the textile heavens of a tent. In the first photo: the artist Salomé Klein, who realised the project together with the young people and the team from the Lernwerkstätten.
Photos: Nele Düll
Fotos: Luis Krummenacher
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