OPEN CALL: Open Live-Art-Atelier for architects with a refugee biography

Photograph of the building “Mäusebunker” in black and white front view. On it a pink circle and the lettering Open Call Live-Art-Artelier für Architekt*innen mit Fluchtbiografie. press, publication

OPEN CALL for refugee architects at the “Festival for urban well-being ...around the Mäusebunker”

The festival for urban well-being …around the Mäusebunker (link to the festival announcement page) will take place from 12-22.09.24 and is dedicated to the creative, cultural and social activation of the open spaces around the Mäusebunker, opening them up to the neighbourhood and urban society. It offers a varied public programme to participate, discuss and try out.

On Saturday, 21.09.2024, the art education programme Ubuntus e.V. (link to the association page of Ubuntus e.V.). in co-operation with Urbane Praxis e.V. (link to the Urbane Praxis e.V. website) is organising an open live art studio in its mobile community studio for political contemporary art. The studio will focus on architecture. Together, Ubuntus e.V. and Urbane Praxis e.V. would like to offer two architects with refugee biographies the opportunity to give an insight into their work on the festival site of the Mäusebunker on the open studio day, each focusing on a specially selected core concept of the festival content
Translated with DeepL.com (free version) . Thematisch fokussiert sich das Live-Art-Atelier auf die Entwicklung von Entwürfen und Aushandlungen zu holistischen Gesundheitsstandorten, die vor Ort entstehen und vom Publikum live mitverfolgt werden können.

What is the context?
The festival revolves around the theme of urban wellbeing and health, drawing on the history of the building as an animal testing facility, the future development of the neighbouring Benjamin Franklin Campus towards basic health research, as well as the Mäusebunker model procedure, but also concepts such as the Caring City. Urbane Praxis e.V. aims to bring together a network of urban designers and neighbours to explore artistic and civic impulses for the further development of this iconic site and its surroundings. Together we would like to discuss, spatialise and experience the factors of urban well-being at the Mäusebunker site.

How?
The studio’s creative process takes place within the framework of Ubuntus e.V.’s Community Studio for Political Contemporary Art, parallel to its mobile reference library with diversity-orientated publications on contemporary art and society. It invites interested urban society, urban planners and architects with/without a refugee biography to enter into dialogue with the participating architects on the topic of urban well-being.

Conditions of participation and compensation for interested architects:
– Participation in the studio day (21.09.24) with preparation and follow-up work
– Architects (and related disciplines) with a refugee biography
– Centre of life and work in Berlin
– The selected architects will receive an expense allowance of EUR 750 each for participation and materials.

Application documents:
– max 1/2 page Statement of the thematically overarching questions of the Live-Art-Atelier studio: What effects does the built environment have on my body and for which bodies is it being built? What does a city of the future look like in which sick people can seek out places of retreat and rest outside of parks in public spaces?
– max. 1 page concept development for the Open Live Art Studio
– 2 selected projects with short description and photos and/or links

The application documents can be submitted in German or English.

The Open Call is aimed in particular at people who find it difficult to access their field of work and/or to work in independent art and cultural institutions or programs.

In particular, we would like to encourage multilingual People of Color, Black people and LGBT*I*Q+ people as well as people with impairments/disabilities. to apply.

The festival site and the studio furniture of Ubuntus e.V. are largely accessible for wheelchair users. Attention will be paid to barrier-sensitive equipment throughout the festival.

Deadline for submission of application documents: 20.08.2024
Questions about the Open Live Art Studio and the application, as well as the application documents, can be sent to maeusebunker@urbanepraxis.berlin.