The Kiosk of Solidarity is an ongoing urban practice format that intervenes in the contested social fields of work, health, and housing in Berlin. From 2023 to 2024, over 25 solidarity-based Berlin initiatives and projects have used the kiosk for a few days at different locations in Berlin. In various formats, they bring together neighbors, fellow campaigners, and other interested parties and temporarily bring their solidarity practice into the public urban space. The kiosk creates visibility for marginalized groups (e.g. migrants, refugees, queer communities, or homeless people) and connects them with other initiatives. The kiosk project team, together with students from TU Berlin, supports the initiatives in realizing their ideas for using the kiosk: designing the posters, applying for stand permits, logistics, documentation, and financing.
The kiosk aims to create new solidarity-based places for encounters, networking, knowledge production and transfer, protest, appropriation, support, public relations, and participation in public space to strengthen the approaches to socio-ecological transformation supported by the initiatives.
The kiosk was initiated in 2023 as a spin-off of the Transforming Solidarities research project and has been active as an autonomous project since 2024, as part of the Constructlab e.V. network.
The work of the kiosk was honored with the Spiegel Social Design Award 2023 (jury prize) and the Design Vision Award 2023 of the Saxon State Prize for Design.
The Kiosk of Solidarity was 2023 and 2024 funded by Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis and 2023 co-financed by the research project Transforming Solidarities (Berlin University Alliance).
2025 the Kiosk of Solidarity is funded by Postcode Lottery and Fonds Soziokultur.