Share knowledge!
Children and young people compile the lexicon of Berlin life (“Berliner Lexikon der Stadtgesellschaft”).
We live in times where more and more people from all over the world are coming to Berlin and bringing a wealth of new experiences and knowledge with them, so we have to ask ourselves: what is there to know? Children and youngsters alike seize the moment and start asking old and new Berliners.
What do we know? What do we want to learn? What is it important to know? A team of young people surveyed people at flea markets, football stadiums, parks, train stations and on shopping streets. Eight school classes each spent a week in their local libraries looking for the city’s hidden knowledge.
AFrom their results – objects, written texts, films, items they found, installations and performances – they created the “lexicon of Berlin life”, a walk-in cabinet of curiosities inside a “Cloud of Knowledge” which was presented in September 2018 as part of the Next Library Conference Berlin.
Run time: October 2017 to September 2018
Share knowledge!
Children and young people compile the lexicon of Berlin life (“Berliner Lexikon der Stadtgesellschaft”).
We live in times where more and more people from all over the world are coming to Berlin and bringing a wealth of new experiences and knowledge with them, so we have to ask ourselves: what is there to know? Children and youngsters alike seize the moment and start asking old and new Berliners.
What do we know? What do we want to learn? What is it important to know? A team of young people surveyed people at flea markets, football stadiums, parks, train stations and on shopping streets. Eight school classes each spent a week in their local libraries looking for the city’s hidden knowledge.
AFrom their results – objects, written texts, films, items they found, installations and performances – they created the “lexicon of Berlin life”, a walk-in cabinet of curiosities inside a “Cloud of Knowledge” which was presented in September 2018 as part of the Next Library Conference Berlin.
Run time: October 2017 to September 2018
The Cloud of Knowledge at the Berlin Library Festival | School project week in a Berlin city library with pupils from the Oberstufenzentrum Marcel-Breuer sixth form college at the launch of the “Wissen teilen” (‚Share knowledge‘) project, 16th till 21st october 2017. Participating artists: Sebastian Däschle, Matze Görig, Sabeth Kerkhoff, Hendrik Scheel, Anja Scheffer, Oliver Scheffer, Todosch Schlopsnies, Federica Teti, Rainer Untch | Fotos: Aris Kress-Kallidromitis / Sabeth Kerkhoff | S27
Excerpts from the lexicon of Berlin life. For the full body of knowledge in German: hier entlang..
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