Urban Practice LIVErary
The entrance door on the Columbiadamm side is 88cm wide and therefore not barrier-free. However, there is a second entrance door at the back, which is 90 cm wide and has a ramp for wheelchair users. The gatehouse itself stands on a 10 meter wide sidewalk with a 10 cm high curb.
There is a large parking lot directly opposite the gatehouse, which is subject to a charge. Sometimes the parking lot is closed because events are taking place at the airport. You are welcome to contact us before your visit to find out if the parking spaces are available.
Many barriers are not directly visible. For us, acting more inclusively means considering invisible disabilities, limitations and challenges at events and creating the best possible access. However, we work a lot on a voluntary basis and cannot guarantee that we always have everything in view. If you have any criticism or suggestions to make the Torhaus a more inclusive place, please contact us at any time or write an email to: info@torhausberlin.de.
We cordially invite you to become part of Urban Practice LIVErary – a dynamic knowledge library on collective urban design. The LIVErary is a moving and living archive of initiatives collective urban design and practice. Quite different from a quiet and institutionalised public library, the LIVErary is a constantly evolving, open space for the active exchange of knowledge about liveable cities. As the first stop on the LIVErary, we would like to introduce you to to a two-day happening at the Torhaus Berlin.
Why LIVE?
Live archiving: Actors from various initiatives in the field of urban planning and practice are invited to place their publications in the library
and to choose the right place
choose the right place.
Live on THF Radio: Live interviews with people who share their stories and insights about their initiatives. The programme is broadcast live from the THF Radio studio. Live show – selected and courageous initiatives have the opportunity to briefly present their publications or projects.
Food & drink: We serve snacks and drinks!
Programme
Friday 18:00-21:00:
Talks: Live interviews with people sharing their stories and insights about their initiatives. The show is broadcast live from the THF Radio studio.
Live Show – Selected and bold initiatives have the opportunity to briefly present their publications or projects.
Harry und Marvins Puppentheater: The Liverarians Harry and Marvin are guiding through the shelfs of communal city making
Torhaus Kochkollektiv:
The Torhaus KochKollektiv is a grassroots organisation of international food lovers and activists working together towards a more sustainable food system.
We aim for a more eco-friendly, local and healthy food production to fight climate change.
Kochkollektiv will serve us some nice KÜFA (Küche für Alle).
Torhaus DJ Fazee (FLINTA):
Hang around the LIVErary with some nice music from THF Radio.
DIY Zine Kits This Zine DIY Kit is an invitation to experiment! It provides you with different folding formats, giving you a hands-on understanding of how a zine can be structured. Zine-making is all about trial and error—sometimes mistakes lead to the best ideas! Turn this kits into your own unique project, that shows us new perspective and voices on city making and planning! Now it’s time to fold, cut, glue, and create your very own zine!
Sunday 13:00-18:00:
Fehras Publishing Practices, co-established in Berlin in 2015, is a cultural workers collective upholding emotional capital, grandmother’s wisdom and loyalty to their ancestors. They examine publishing as a tool to combat cultural hegemony and foster horizontal and vertical solidarities. Fehras serves as an observatory for publishing strategies and practices in relation to the geo-political transformations of southwest Asia and North Africa. Sami Rustom, Aleppo-born will be representing the collective.
Sami Rustom offers an exchange about the work of the collective of Fehras Publishing Practices and insights into the process of self-publishing. Come along to ask your questions and learn more about publishing as an emancipatory practice.
In the early 1960s, so-called guest workers from Anatolia and other parts of Turkey were recruited by the Federal Republic of Germany. From the very beginning, there was something that always accompanied them and was part of their culture: their music – a piece of home in a foreign country. Over the years, independent musical styles developed in Germany that did not exist in this form in the mother country. This unprecedented story of an independent musical culture of immigrants from Turkey, their children and grandchildren in Germany is told in an entertaining and multi-layered way in the exciting cinema documentary ‘Aşk Mark ve Ölüm’ / LOVE, D-MARK AND DEATH by Cem Kaya, using archive material that has never been seen before. Far from home, strangers in a new country, melancholic musical styles such as Gurbetçi songs (songs from a foreign land) emerged at the beginning of immigration. Presented by artists such as Yüksel Özkasap, the Nightingale of Cologne, or Aşık Metin Türköz (‘Mayestero’).
They were followed by younger musicians such as the duo Derdiyoklar (‘Liebe Gabi’), Ozan Ata Canani (‘Deutsche Freunde’) or Cem Karaca and the Kanaken (‘Mein Freund, der Deutsche’), who sang in German for the first time in their socially critical songs, thereby shaping both migrant and German pop culture. Hip hop became the mouthpiece of the second and third generation of people who had grown up in Germany. Pioneers of German-Turkish hip hop such as Fresh Familee, King Size Terror and Islamic Force paved the way for contemporary pop music in Germany.
DIY Zine Kit This Zine DIY Kit is an invitation to experiment! It provides you with different folding formats, giving you a hands-on understanding of how a zine can be structured. Zine-making is all about trial and error—sometimes mistakes lead to the best ideas! Turn this kits into your own unique project, that shows us new perspective and voices on city making and planning! Now it’s time to fold, cut, glue, and create your very own zine!