MACHT STADT SOLIDARISCH

Solidarity Urban Practice: A workshop for first steps into solidarity urban making.

Accessibility

The event room is in an interior room on the first floor. The room is completely barrier-free and one of three toilets is also barrier-free. There are two entrances: one without steps to the outdoor terrace and one directly to the street (with one step). No audio description, guidance systems, or assists are available.

Arrival:

The address of the venue is: SP*TI Kiezladen, Kienitzer Str. 26, 12053 Berlin. Arrival by public transport: U7 to Karl-Marx-Str. 300m walk; Arrival by car: parking spaces may be available on Kienitzer Str. Upon prior notification, we can escort people from a nearby public transportation station to the venue if needed.

Languages

German, translation into English; no DGS, no easy language

Toilettes

gender-neutral, barrier-free toilet

Stimuli

Worshop with 10-15 participants, 2 facilitators and a translator; venue is indoors about 100m2; small groups are formed during the workshop and can retreat to different places in the room or to the courtyard; there are no extraordinary light/noise stimuli.

Catering

We provide free tea, coffee and water.

Children

The program is not suitable for children and there is no childcare. Changing and storage facilities for a stroller are available.

Awareness Team

We wish to treat each other with consideration and solidarity. All information about the awareness concept can be found here https://www.urbanepraxis.berlin/awareness/
You can reach our awareness team of the practice week at the operating times under: +49 157 53 55 41 96 and on site at Mehringpl

Content Note

The workshop deals with the topic "solidary city making". This involves questions of power distribution in the context of privilege and discrimination in the design and use of the city. One component of the workshop is making people aware of their own privelegies in this context. This is potentially triggering for most people. The workshop is structured in such a way that through a slow approach and an initial discussion in silence, each person can decide for themselves how far they will open themselves up to this reflection. The results of this task are not shared with the group. At the end, there is an opportunity to discuss the feelings that have arisen in this context with the group or the facilitators.

I want to design the city and do Urban Practice. In doing so, my practice is meant to be solidarity-based. Where is it already? And where not? How does solidarity-based city-making work? And what role does my own social position play in this?

The two-hour workshop “MACHT STADT SOLIDARISCH” is aimed at all urban practitioners, urban designers, initiatives and interested parties who want to shape their own practice in solidarity. The starting point is the collaboratively designed booklet “MACHT STADT SOLIDARISCH – Denkanstöße für eine solidarische Urbane Praxis” (available for download at https://urbane-liga.de/news/solidarisch/ ), which was developed as a co-research project in the Urban League and explores diverse perspectives on solidarity-based city-making.

https://urbane-liga.de/news/solidarisch/

https://zukunftsarchiv.org/

event location:

SP*TI Kiezladen in der Kienitzer Str. 26

Organization / Initiative:

Urbane Liga Alumni e.V., zukunfts*archiv, anzetteln

Funded:

The event is part of the initiative DRAUSSENSTADT, funded by the Berlin Project Fund Urban Practice and the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.