The city is our living space, our home, our stage: together we want to play on it, to change it – to explore how the city will tick in the future. Urban practice creates new spaces of possibility in unexpected places, experimental in form and participatory in process. Make ‘city’ together.
In 2020, the Rat für die Künste [Council for the Arts] its Urban Praxis Working Group proposed an initiative that, together with Berlin-based artists, city activists, and in a network of Berlin-wide campus projects and city laboratories, demonstrated the cooperation and action field of ‘Urban Praxis’.
The S27, together with raumlabor, nGbK, the Berlin Mondiale and other long-term associated urbanists, provides the catalyst for the city-wide experiment. With our on-site projects JUNIPARK, the Coop Campus at Hermannstraße, and with Stadtwerk mrzn at Otto-Rosenberg-Platz in Marzahn, we have been able to try out various strategies for creative urban space reclamation in recent years.
And so we are delighted that the Projektbüro Urbane Praxis (=project office) has been staying with us for the time being! It oversees the coordination of campuses, networking and think tank campaigns.
Berliners need more space to meet and actively try things out: a living Urban Praxis!
How we’ll get there? You can find out in the Action Plan Urban Praxis (German only)!
Make the city yourself – S27 looks after the new project office!
Team: Carla Schwarz, Anna Piccoli, Rebecca Wall, Alex Römer
Contact: office@urbanepraxis.berlin
In close cooperation with our network partners, twelve initial city laboratories will be activated by the end of 2021 and existing campuses will be further developed. This includes smaller pioneering locations – the so-called ‘Bauhütten’ (building huts) – and larger campus facilities that support transformation processes and participation in exposed social spaces and neighbourhoods.
Berliners and urban activists of all ages are cordially invited to help shape the exciting places and to participate in the artistic experiments in a variety of ways.
///NEWS
The exhibition “ÜBER Urbane Praxis in 12+1 Berliner Projekten” (ABOUT Urban Praxis in 12+1 Berlin projects) in House A of Haus der Statistik should have enden on 26 June. Due to the great interest, it has been extended until the end of July!
Visitors have the opportunity to explore exhibits from different urban praxis projects in an interactive way. How does it work? The best way to find out is to drop by and let the exhibition surprise you!
Place: Foyer Haus A, Karl-Marx-Allee 1, 10178 Berlin
Opening hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 15:00-19:00
Extended until 31 July 2021
The Initiative Urbane Praxis is at home in many locations, campus projects and city laboratories all over Berlin. The project office has found its home with us. And so that there is enough space, our company has had offspring: a small factory! „Mobilien – FAKE ESTATE“ is the new office for the initiative, planned by Albert Tschechne and Christof Mayer from raumlaborberlin and built by Albert, Johannes, Stefan and Theo. Photos: Luis Krummenacher, S27 – Art and Education
Network Partners & Campus Projects
- Wasserwerk / Nachbarschaftscampus Dammweg and other | Berlin Mondiale
- station urbaner kulturen | nGbK
- Baupalast am Dragoner | ConstructLab and other
- CoCoon
- Haus der Statistik | raumlabor and ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG
- Floating University
- ZK/U
- Stadtwerk mrzn | S27 – Art and Education
The Urbane Praxis initiative is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe as part of DRAUSSENSTADT:
