# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Vacant NL

Recensies Vacant NL, Biënnale Venetië 2010:

- The New York Times

"Another highlight is the Dutch Pavilion. The makers of the installation [...use] cheeky math to introduce their striking research into vacant state-owned buildings in the Netherlands. Every one of the more than1,000 empty buildings was rebuilt as a miniature blue foam model and suspended from the pavilion's double-height ceiling. The curators [...] propose to develop a strategy for temporary use, to make these buildings available to the public, particularly to the creative industries on which the Dutch government is banking its future prosperity."

- The Wall Street Journal
"The Dutch, Japanese and French national entries each examine the notion of the void in modern cities. The Netherlands pavilion does it in the most straightforward manner, simply pointing out that the building lies empty for almost nine months of the year. As you enter an empty room, there is a suspended blue foam ceiling that, when one proceeds to the upper level, turns out from above to be a model of a city. It provides a neat visual example of the percentage of empty space in European urban spaces."
- The Guardian
"The Dutch present models of empty buildings highlighting the gormless enormity of architectural waste; how we concrete over anywhere we can for short-term gain, while governments prattle on about sustainability and building shortages."

"Ten opzichte van voorgaande jaren zowel in artistiek opzicht als qua boodschap onovertroffen."

"Het is natuurlijk een statement van jewelste om het publiek van de architectuurbiënnale te confronteren met een ogenschijnlijk leeg Rietveldpaviljoen. Maar achter die leegte gaat een pakkende tentoonstelling schuil, verzorgd door het bureau RAAAF."

- NRC Handelsblad

"Vanaf een hogergelegen tussenverdieping kijk je uit over een zee van gebouwen met een publieke functie: vuurtorens en watertorens, steenfabrieken en sportzalen, bunkers en forten, kerken en kloosters, zwembaden en ziekenhuizen. Het is een tot de verbeelding sprekende oproep aan de politiek."

"Lef of lafheid? [...] Dit jaar is het thema 'People meet in architecture'. 'Vacant NL' gaat een stap verder: maak intelligent gebruik van de gebouwen die we hebben. Een soort 'consuminderen' in de architectuur. Lef, dus."

- De Volkskrant

"Een sterk, eenduidig beeld"

- De Architect

"Beste tentoonstelling 2010: Installatie 'Vacant NL', gemaakt door RAAAF voor het NAI in Venetië, een bewijs te meer dat Ole Bouman vooral zou moeten doen waar hij goed in is, namelijk boeiende tentoonstellingen samenstellen. Een fascinerend overzicht [...] van de publieke leegstaande gebouwen in Nederland die volgens Ronald en Erik Rietveld een enorm potentieel vertegenwoordigen."

- The Guardian

"Dozens of national pavilions get to interpret [Sejima's] theme in their own ways, often lamely but sometimes provocatively. The Dutch pavilion, for example, has created a foam city floating in the air, representing the thousands of state-owned buildings in the Netherlands that are empty - from ex-industrial sites, to disused municipal offices and abandoned churches. People, it seems, do not always meet in architecture."

- Metrpolis Magazine NYC

"RAAAF often presents these ideas in confrontational ways. For example, Vacant NL, the Dutch pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, was composed of 10,000 models of government-owned vacant structures, making clear the magnitude of idle property in a nation facing an ever-present housing shortage....In the end, the genius of RAAAF is in its strategic interventions that, though small, invite viewers to imagine a completely different way of living. "
- The Architectural Review The practice, which was founded by Ronald and Erik Rietveld in 2006 came to international attention at the 2010 Venice Biennale. Its project there, Vacant NL, was a strangely compelling study of 10,000 empty government buildings − an enormous number in a small country − with imaginative ideas of what could be done with them: the Dutch government has been listening.
- Jury Rotterdan Designprijs 2011

''The project displays a social and cultural approach, integrates several disciplines, and links forms of design to cooperation with a variety of parties. Also, the manifesto offers a vision: it is successful as visualization, installation and political statement. It is expressly not a once only event.''

>>> Juryrapport: [hele rapport] [samenvatting] (PDF)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.authors[].name
Rietveld Landscape, RAAAF, Rietveld Architecture Art Affordances

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Vacant NL Recensies Vacant NL, Biënnale Venetië 2010: - The New York Times "Another highlight is the Dutch Pavilion. The makers of the installation [...use] cheeky math to introduce their striking research into vacant state-owned buildings in the Netherlands.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.buildingsocialecology.org/projects/spreefeld-berlin/

Its mission: to harness its location’s unique potential to create a socially just, economically stable, and environmentally responsible urban building block.

Open to the neighborhood and city

Differentiation between private, communal, public spaces

Options for contemporary forms of living

Resource-saving, low-cost building

Modular building design and construction

Uniform fittings, sparingly used in the apartments

Self-help construction

Use-neutral building organization for living and working

Self-production of renewable energy

Economy of space: few elevators; shared and communal spaces

Joint ownership for long-term affordable rents

# data[].attributes.body
Walking Methodology:

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Une lettre mystérieuse, la grotte inondée, l'eau potable des bateaux, les femmes du sud et le séminaire squatté... La lettre à indices On s'est réuni comme d'hab, au bar Terminus, soleil et café, Charly nous accueille toujours avec le sourire. Charlotte, habitante de la Calade, a reçu un petit cadeau,

Lire l'article "

Le dimanche 3 décembre, l'hebdo La Croix a publié un article "Voir Marseille autrement" pour promouvoir notre proposition d'hospitalité et de découverte de Marseille par son Nord. L'occasion de remercier les journalistes de La Croix qui chaque année depuis dix ans suivent notre activité et la partage avec leurs lecteurs

Lire l'article "

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Une lettre mystérieuse, la grotte inondée, l'eau potable des bateaux, les femmes du sud et le séminaire squatté... La lettre à indices On s'est réuni comme d'hab, au bar Terminus, soleil et café, Charly nous accueille toujours avec le sourire.

# data[].attributes.body
Neo-futurists were carrying out their daily strolls and endeavours through the streets of Berlin when they started noticing increasing numbers of entities with signs of madness. These entities exhibited nightmarish behaviours and terrifying reflexes such as feverish questioning for a charger, aimless scrolling movements through the air, and complete disorientation. Some of them were found talking to themselves, which, as later explained, was caused “ by the constant feeling of running out of time”, “sudden realisation, that everyone and everything are mere events in their calendars”, or “piercing sense of disconnect from their very essence”. Cataclysmic signs were also observed in non-human entities. Most of them had to turn on their survival mode and fight through the concrete for a small beam of sunshine. Meanwhile, others left the city and invasive species like Himalayan Balsam started thriving and rapidly taking over the local plantscapes.

Though neo-futurists offered minor treatments to calm the entities in moments of despair, they felt the urge to introduce new disruptive activities to combat these social and ecological collapses. Following their annual gathering for a chaga tea ceremony, they decided to initiate a collective experiment: seed the new neo-futuristic subcultures which would infect the city with the degrowth ideas and create glitches within the prevailing capitalistic system. They thought of starting just around the Radialsystem, since they discovered here the remaining small isolated communities of neo-futurists' spiritual ancestors. Until today, these communities are keeping up with their alternative lifestyles in the tiny strips of land.

You, the new neo-futurist, are here to carry out this experiment and create your neo-futurist’s - degrowther’s subculture. This city, with its rumours, luscious (hi)stories, and all kinds of factoids - is your source of inspiration.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
A new kind of out-of-town visitor likes to check out the famous Brandenburg Tor in Berlin these days: Louisiana crawfish scuttles through the site when it rains. After business consultants Lukas and Juliane Bosch learned three years ago that they had become invasive in Berlin, the couple had an aha-moment. "We read that the invasive species has no natural enemies in the ecosystem," Lukas says, which is why they'd come to run rampant. "That logic only works if you omit humans from the food chain."

Why not simply eat the invaders? After all, the crawfish is a delicacy in Louisiana because it tastes almost like lobster. Together with Berlin gourmet chef Andreas Michelus, the couple started buying the crawfish from a licensed fisherman, developed recipes and bought a food truck. Their company, Holycrab!, was born. "Why fly exotic ingredients around the world when they live outside your front door?" the founders ask. "If you can't beat them, eat them."

The main challenge was getting Germans interested in trying new foods, "so we put it in dishes people were already familiar with, such as crab rolls or 'pasta di plague,'" Juliane says. When the crawfish season ended in the fall, they switched to wild boar and Nile goose, which are also invasive.

The couple is now living with their child in Offenbach near Frankfurt, and because farmers complained that the geese are eating ingredients such as watercress and sorrel for the popular German "green sauce," the Holycrabbers deliberately added a recipe for Nile goose with green sauce "as a conversation starter." Later they added other invaders to the menu: carp sandwiches, bouillabaisse with Chinese crab, raccoon steak, and a stew made from the raccoon-sized rodent nutria, plus invasive plants and roots as salads and fries. Raccoons are the hardest to sell, according to Lukas Bosch, "because some people think they're too cute to eat and others are afraid of catching a disease." But the hunters shoot them anyway to fulfill their hunting quota, as Lukas Bosch explains. "If we don't eat it, the meat gets thrown away or made into dog food."

It's illegal in Germany (and most parts of Europe) to simply shoot or fish your own lunch. You need a permit, and to make sure no illnesses get transmitted, every piece of wild meat needs to be tested and certified before consumption. "Once a young, inexperienced hunter simply showed up at our front door with a 100-pound boar," the couple recalls, laughing. "We had to send him away and explain he needed to get the meat tested first."

Predictably, their startup has gained a lot of media attention. But it has also won numerous awards, and customers have nicknamed the crawfish "Berlin lobster." "If you put it on my plate and I didn't know what it was called, I'd think it was lobster, because it tastes just like it," one customer said.

"We deliberately started with the food truck to try out new recipes and get the opportunity to talk to people." Lukas Bosch explains. "For instance, the Chinese mitten crab came from China to Germany about a 100 years ago on cargo ships. It's grotesque how big they grow and thrive here. The Chinese pay gourmet prices for them because water pollution has made them a rarity in China." A few Chinese restaurants were offering them in Germany, too, "but our food truck gave us the opportunity to explain the back story," Juliane Bosch adds, "and this is what gets people interested."

The eat-the-invaders movement actually started in the United States. Renowned conservation biologist from the University of Vermont kickstarted the "invasivorism" trend in 2011 after he completed his PhD on the damage invasive European green crabs inflict in the US. Websites such as are dedicated to identifying edible aliens and publishing recipes for snails, snakes, iguanas, nutrias, and other invasive species. Many of them either hitched rides as blind passengers on a boat or were brought in deliberately only to have their numbers spiral out of control because they have no natural enemies in their new environment.

Effective solutions are hard to find. Too often, the invaders are simply killed and discarded. Or authorities release predators, such as eels Scotland communities released to kill crawfish. The eels then became a problem. While introducing invasive species into a local diet is not a silver bullet to "beat them," businesses like Holycrab! serve multiple important roles - not just making a small dent in the population, but educating people and helping normalize and build trust in dietary options that are more sustainable and contribute to solutions instead of problems with the food system.

The damage invasive species are causing is immense: Experts estimate that the aliens are responsible for nearly a third of extinctions worldwide and have cost farmers and communities more than $1.3 trillion in damages. Out of the 50,000 nonnative species in the US, have been labeled invasive. To name a few of the worst offenders, nutrias destroy Louisiana marshes; European green crabs devoured a billion dollars worth of mussels and clams in US waters; sea lampreys usurp trout in the Great Lakes; Burmese pythons strangle native deer in the Florida Everglades, and feral pigs, considered "super invaders," are ripping up lawns, golf courses and vineyards in the Bay Area, even threatening the area's drinking water supply. According to the Department of Agriculture, more than six million feral pigs live in the US, hybrid offspring of domesticated pigs and wild boar that was imported around the 1900s for sport hunting. California is currently debating a bill to make hunting them easier so more of them can be made into pork chops and sausages.

Once an invasive species like crawfish has been introduced to a new region, it is nearly impossible to get rid of it entirely. But especially in countries with a high rate of malnutrition, such as Madagascar, scientists and activists have educated the population about the benefits of eating the protein-rich invaders with some success .

Lukas Bosch was a vegetarian for ten years before he started Holycrab! with his wife in 2019. He was inspired by Jackson Landers ' book "Eating Aliens" and considers invasive species the only meat you can eat ethically. After all, the animals live in the wild, without the brutality of mass factory farming, and they would be killed anyway. "Mass husbandry is responsible for 30 percent of global greenhouse gasses if you count transport and production," the Holycrabbers researched. While we humans have eaten some wild species such as tuna or Atlantic cod nearly to extinction, invasivorists point out there are plenty of edible animals that are tasty but people simply don't know how to put them on the menu. "The hunters' hearts are bleeding when their freezers are full but nobody eats the wild meat," Lukas Bosch learned. Scientists have been trying to come up with guidelines and for hunters and conservationists so that they actually target the right species for the environment.

To help their clients stomach new recipes, the Bosches assure them that "nutria tastes like a crossbreed of rabbit and quail, and raccoon resembles deer and poultry." The couple found out that nutria had actually been on the menu in the former Republic of East Germany as poor man's meat, and older East Germans were familiar with the taste.

In order to make this solution palatable to more people, gourmet chefs worldwide are experimenting with integrating invasive species in their menus. Among the unusual recipe options: Celebrity sushi chef Bun Lai roasts cicadas in his wok and even chops up cannonball jellyfish into sushi. Several jellyfish are rich in protein and surprisingly tasty as carpaccio, according to Antonella Leone, biotechnologist at the Institute of Science of Food Production (ISPA) in Italy. Chef in Burlington, , might sneak peppery wild mustard sprigs in his patrons' salad, periwinkle snails in their appetizer, Green Crabs in their bisque, and Japanese knotweed in their dessert.

Since the pandemic canceled most catering events, Holycrab! switched to producing bouillabaisse stock from the Chinese mitten crab that is now being sold and marketed in supermarkets. To actually make a dent, more supermarket chains and pet food companies need to jump on board. Wholefoods and a few other chains made a start in 2016 by offering lionfish, a tender tasting invader, and a few dog food producers are baking nutria into their high-end dog biscuits. The end goal of Holycrab! is different from any other startup: To eat so many invasive species that there are none left and the startup can go out of business. The invasive Lousiana crawfish in Berlin is already receding. Juliane Bosch is an innovation researcher and has worked for an innovation institute for years before starting Holycrab! "There, we did research about how companies can make the world a better place," Juliana says. "In the end, it is about changing the future."

But of course, not all aliens are fit for consumption. Sometimes the Holycrabbers get calls about invasive species that are plentiful and yet the couple cannot come to the rescue. "A woman from Bavaria called and complained about a crazy mosquito invasion," Lukas Bosch remembers with a laugh. "Could we help?" Even the Holycrabbers have yet to cook up a recipe for tasty mosquito à la mode.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
A new kind of out-of-town visitor likes to check out the famous Brandenburg Tor in Berlin these days: Louisiana crawfish scuttles through the site when it rains. After business consultants Lukas and Juliane Bosch learned three years ago that they had become invasive in Berlin, the couple had an aha-moment....

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Top 20 Most Common Plants in Germany, Berlin, Berlin - PictureThis

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
In Germany, Berlin, Berlin, you can find Greater celandine, English ivy, Common yarrow, Norway maple, Lambsquarters, and more! There are 20 types of plants in total

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Every morning when I brush my teeth, I peer out of our bathroom window near Waterloo, Belgium, to admire our bushy Senecio Inaequidens (SI for short); I had heard it's controversial, but until now I knew not why! An attractive plant, sporting dozens of golden blooms from May to December, SI is commonly called South African ragwort, because it hails from the northern part of South Africa at altitudes of 1,400 to 2,800 meters. Frost-tolerant and sun-loving, SI is especially primed to continue its northeastern migration as rising climes fuel its reproductive success. Apparently, each little plant can produce 29,000 achenes, tiny seeds carried by wind and pollinated by insects. Seeds lying dormant in the soil can survive thirty to forty years. Since the 1970s, a combination of westerly winds originating in Liège have dispersed SI further eastward, along railways and highways into Germany. So long as sunlight is plentiful, it thrives in gravelly or sandy soil, growing alongside herbaceous vegetation and among young shrubs, though never in dense thickets nor near shade trees.

Once again, Germans have good reason to blame Belgians for this scourge. SI was first noticed in Belgium in 1922, so it is a true neophyte, whereas most invasive plants are archaeophytes (they arrived before 1500). Traveling from South Africa to Mazamet (France) in bales of sheep's wool, SI seeds later invaded Liège, Calais, Bremen, and Verona-all cities hosting wool-processing facilities used for carding or trade. Working its way across Europe, SI landed in Scotland (1928), France (1934), the Netherlands (1939), Italy (1947), Denmark (1988), Berlin (1993), and, to everyone's surprise, eventually Norway (1995).

The reason why some consider SI a problem is that it is poisonous to neighboring plants and some animals. Although only one caterpillar eats it, sixty-two phytophagous insects have been observed feeding on it in Berlin. Few, however, consider it an actual threat to indigenous species. Elsewhere, SI has been known to infiltrate wheat fields and pastures, thus risking human exposure to toxic cereal and milk consumption. It has been known to poison horses. Resistant to herbicides, SI is encouraged by mowing, leading seeds to be spread farther. Luckily, employing biocontrol with aphids and beetles seems to be effective. I propose here that the reason why SI wasn't known in Berlin until 1993, but then suddenly became ubiquitous, is that so many buildings were knocked down after the wall fell, thus reducing shade and creating plenty of ruderal sites where SI could take root.

Unless SI is found growing in fields hosting cereals, cows, or horses, I recommend that human beings learn to appreciate this lovely flowering bush. Rather than rip out every invasive species, we ought to accept that ecosystems are complex. Moreover, any goal toward achieving biodiversity ought to include invasive species, whose disappearance at this point might result in unintended consequences, exacerbating species loss. Life is in a precarious balance, even if such relationships are not ideal. Even though the French call weeds mauvais herbes, not all weeds are necessarily bad, and most serve irreplaceable functions. For example, the ubiquitous dandelions are not only an edible resource, but their deep roots prevent soil erosion.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Anthropocene Curriculum → The Curious Story of Berlin's Invasive Alien Species

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The Anthropocene Curriculum is a global network of initiatives developing and testing experimental and experiential approaches to co-learning and co-producing knowledge in a rapidly changing planetary situation.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
In the years following the events of 13 August 1961, the GDR leadership expanded the border fortifications between East and West Berlin to create a system of many different control elements. The border walls and fences were as high as 3.60 meters in places, while the "no man's land" that separated them was between five and several hundred meters wide. Today most of that area has been built over. In some parts, green spaces or memorial sites contribute to making this a "commemorative landscape."

Our map shows the outer wall, built on the border to West Berlin, in red, while the inner wall is marked in blue.

The political border that was crucial to fugitives is marked in yellow wherever it deviates from the location of the outer wall.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
In the years following the events of 13 August 1961, the GDR leadership expanded the border fortifications between East and West Berlin to create a system of many different control elements. The border walls and fences were as high as 3.60 meters in places, while the "no man's land" that separated them was between five and several hundred meters wide.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Bar25 - Tage außerhalb der Zeit -Part 1 THE MOVIE❗️With ENG.SUB. #berlin #bar25 #berlinmusic

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.ragpickinghistory.co.uk/amp/loose-fit-city-the-holzmarkt-berlin

https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2017/apr/30/berlin-clubbers-urban-village-holzmarkt-party-city

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
German Police Evict Encampment Outside the Historic KØPI Squat

By Yegor Halva, Contributor

Berlin, Germany - A massive police operation evicted the autonomous mobile encampment "Köpi Wagenplatz" which took up residence in front of the historic and decades-old Köpi squat. Police detained 20 during the siege-like eviction which took several hours on October 15. In response, large protests through Berlin and Hamburg featured fires, flares, barricades, and some property damage.

Mobile trailer parks, or 'wagenplatz' in German, are autonomous mobile encampments popularized during the squatters' movement decades ago. Köpi-Platz, the evicted 'wagenplatz' was at Köpenicker Straße 133-136, outside of the Köpi squat, a reclaimed building turned into a cultural and housing center. Köpi is Berlin's biggest squat and one of the oldest autonomous spaces left. The building itself is not under any threats of eviction unlike the mobile park.

The atmosphere in the city center was already tense in the days before the eviction. Several hundred police officers were on constant patrol in the streets near Köpi and a police helicopter made its rounds over the area. In the afternoon on October 14, the police closed off a large area around Köpi, declaring it a 'red zone' and only letting in people who lived or worked within the zone.

At 10 a.m. on Friday, October 15, the court bailiff showed up with the eviction notice. After three hours of police aggressively attempting to break and cut through the barricaded area, the court bailiff entered the square under police escort around 1:30 p.m., although two activists were still holding out in the trees.

Taking part in the operation were 2,000 police officers, water cannons, evacuation tanks, climbing teams, a special task force and a dog squad. Eventually, police erected scaffolding on the fence, which was reinforced with metal plates, until they decided to use medieval-looking crowbars to penetrate the site.

With the help of an evacuation tank, they slowly but effectively broke in.

During the eviction, hundreds of people gathered around Köpi at several rally points through the afternoon and evening, protesting loudly. A nighttime protest featured scenes reminiscent of the old days of the squatters' movement in the legendary Kreuzberg neighborhood during the 80s and 90s.

At least 8,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Berlin the night of the eviction. Bottles and stones were thrown towards the police, some cars were lit on fire, barricades were built, and the front of a Noble Hotel was damaged.

Police, who numbered in the thousands as well, responded with violence during and after the march, beating and arresting protesters and invading a bar to arrest people.

For Whom Was the Large Operation For?

The big question many are asking from the eviction: With such a large police operation, likely costing millions of euros, who does the eviction benefit?

Since 2013, the letterbox company Startezia GmbH, which is registered in Cologne, has been the official owner of the Köpi and area where the wagenplatz was. Everything suggests that the managing director going by the name, Yervand Chukhajyan, is a straw man. Information on him is scarce and he did not appear at the eviction proceedings before the regional court, despite an order to do so. Behind Startezia is the investment group Sanus AG, headed by the notorious Siegfried Nehls.

Sanus AG has bought the site for one million euros and is expected to earn up to 20 million from a building project. Yet, there is nothing to suggest that Startezia GmbH really wants to build, as it claims. The residents doubt the project and fear that further vacancies will be created for speculative purposes. It is more likely that Siegfried Nehls expects a much higher return from a cleared site, they say. The land price in the area has increased tenfold in the past ten years and Nehls is not famous for being honest, but rather for being a scandal-ridden real estate developer:

In 2007, Nehls was investigated following a major raid. The accusation: general contractors commissioned by him for six Berlin construction projects had always gone broke before paying the tradesmen they had hired. The results of the investigations and proceedings are unknown-except that Nehls was able to continue.

In 2015, Nehls was charged in court with "misuse of titles and forgery of documents"-a similar accusation to the one now being leveled against Chukhajyan.

At the end of 2019, the mayor of the Brandenburg town of Zossen complained that ten companies from the Sanus network had failed to pay trade taxes of 3.2 million euros. She announced that she would involve the public prosecutor's office and initiate trade prohibition proceedings.

History of Köpi

The legendary house on Köpenicker Straße 137, located in Berlin's central borough of Mitte and on the edge of the famous Berlin Wall, was occupied on February 23, 1990. Shortly before, the building was vacated. The occupation prevented the planned demolition of the building. From day one, the Köpi house was and is a real brake on gentrification. Projects have been planned there since the 1990s and have been waiting in vain for the Köpi to be vacated ever since.

Köpi, Berlin's largest squat, sits on what was the East Berlin side of the Berlin Wall at Köpenicker Straße 137. Köpi-Platz the (autonomous trailer park) was at Köpenicker Straße 133-136 - map via Berlin Wall Map - black rectangle signifies Köpi

The Köpi is part of the big squatting wave that took place in West and East Berlin in the 80s and 90s. Large speculative vacancies were squatted. The owners hoped that the houses would be bought from them for a lot of money by the Senate or the federal government. This was resisted by squatting and this practice very successfully preserved many houses. Squats were spaces of experimental culture, alternative living and housing forms and revolutionary ideas. Most of the squatted buildings were evicted, but a lot of them have been contractually secured over the years.

Köpi has a long history of failed eviction attempts. The first was in 1996, when the then-owner Commerzbank tried to auction off the house in 1998, 1999, and 2000, until the residents received long-term contracts in 2007. Every one of those evictions were avoided due to large waves of solidarity by many supporters. In 2007, a forced auction took place where Commerzbank secretly sold Köpi and Köpi-Platz for half of the market value to a speculator behind whom the company Nehls Immobilien had hidden.

Since first being occupied, the entire management of the house has been carried out by the tenants' emergency association. The entire fresh water and waste water system as well as the roof were completely renewed by the tenants themselves. The basement rooms were drained and made usable at great expense. Extensive renovation work in the apartments and constant smaller repairs and maintenance measures are also done by the tenants themselves.

The commonly used rooms offer space for a wide variety of non-commercial cultural and sports events. Numerous bands from all over the world have performed in the two concert rooms over the past 20 years. Hundreds of theater performances as well as dance and other kinds of performances take place on the stages of the Köpi.

Moreover, there is a non-commercial video cinema, sports rooms that can be used free of charge, a self-managed screen printing workshop, the techno basement, Berlin's oldest climbing room, the open office, vegan/vegetarian Volx kitchens, a band rehearsal room and much more.

By the time the car park was evicted, about 70 people lived in the Köpi compounds, with one third of them in the associated car park, including children, some of whom have lived in the house since birth.

As the eviction was occurring, a community member told Unicorn Riot autonomous living spaces are important for allowing people to live without hierarchy.

" We need more alternative living spaces and free spaces for people where they can live away from hierarchies and can express themselves and create spaces far from the state and from the police. "
Anonymous community member during the eviction of Köpi-Platz in October 2021

Gentrification & A Referendum to Expropriate Apartments from Real Estate Giants

An artist that lived in the Köpi-Platz until the day of the eviction, told Unicorn Riot they have nowhere else to go and because of rising rent prices in Berlin many of those evicted " will end up on the streets. "

" I want to fight for this living space, for this creative space. I cannot imagine living in a normal apartment, I will miss my people here, I will miss my community. In fact though, this in not only a matter of choice, I have nowhere else to go and the same goes for a lot of people that lived here. They are not going to find a place anywhere else, the rent prices in Berlin have exploded. They will end up on the streets. This is what gentrification and luxury for the rich minorities does with people. "
Anonymous artist evicted from the Köpi-Platz in October 2021

The phrase used this phase of gentrification has been "redevelopment area," i.e. an area in which there are special advantages for investors (fast approval planning, municipal funds for road construction and infrastructure, etc.), the creditors and landlord capitalists. The new plans for the place where the Köpi car park used to be includes lofts and luxury student residences and party and concert venues.

Redevelopment in Berlin has gone hand in hand with police and repression. Displacement processes are manifested in many ways and everywhere in Berlin various left wing projects are being dismantled. A new surveillance mania and heavy racial profiling takes place at the Görli Park. Evictions do not only affect left-wing projects though, even ordinary tenants have been put on the street, even amidst the pandemic.

The eviction of Köpi-Platz comes just weeks after the city of Berlin held a citizen referendum after 350,000 signatures were collected during a campaign against the big real estate sharks, that included several huge demos in the city of Berlin. The referendum won with 56% of the vote saying yes to a plan that would expropriate, or socialize, an estimated 240,000 apartments in Berlin that are currently owned mainly by two real estate giants.

Activists are continuing to organize and with some murmuring about exploring a rent strike as many are pushing for the city of Berlin to act now that the population has spoken.

Niko Georgiades, of Unicorn Riot, contributed to this report.
Follow us on X (aka Twitter), Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Mastodon, Threads, BlueSky and Patreon.

Please consider a tax-deductible donation to help sustain our horizontally-organized, non-profit media organization:

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
German Police Evict Encampment Outside the Historic KØPI Squat - UNICORN RIOT

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
A massive operation by German police evicted the autonomous "Köpi Wagenplatz" in front of the historic Köpi squat in Berlin on October 15.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-44601030

In 1983, a certain Osman Kalin started to grow vegetables and build garden house here. Osman convinced the East German regime that his action wasn’t a protest. The police in West-Berlin couldn’t do much. This Baumhaus an der Mauer (tree house at the Berlin Wall) still exists!

# data[].attributes.body
https://joepwritesthehistoryofberlin.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/luisenstadtische-kanal/

https://www.world-architects.com/en/events/luisenstadt-the-other-side-of-the-canal

The plan for digging out the Luisenstädtische Kanal came up in 1844, when a group of engineers was asked to investigate the opportunities to realise such a thing. The building of the canal was a preventive remedy for the workless from revolting. While construction went on, a steam machine was used in October 1848. The 3000 workers feared being fired and replaced by more machines, so the social situation came to a riot after all. The steam machine was demolished before eleven strikers and one policeman were killed.

In 1926, most of Luisenstädtischer Kanal was drained due to noise and lack of traffic, except for Engelbecken. Landscape architect Erwin Barth proposed various park designs, including a romantic Indiangarden theme (with sixteen fountains, palm trees, various exotic plants and elefant figures out of the landings) but faced budget constraints. Only some of his ideas were realized but Berlin’s locals gave the drained canal the pet name “Der Park, der keinen werden will” (“The park which doesn’t want to become one.”)

For more than a century, the canal was a symbol of Berlin’s renewal and urbanisation. But from 1961 onwards, it also became symbolic of Berlin’s division, with the Berlin Wall running along its former route.

Under national socialism, the park wasn’t finished. In stead, the nazi-regime renamed all canal banks after martyrs of their movement. In 1943, the sixteen fountains at the Engelbecken were melted and used for the war industry. The park’s supervisors were sent to the army. After the war, around 100.000 cubic meters of the city’s Trümmer (ruined buildings) was heaped here temporarily.

In 1961, the Berlin Wall was build. The East German part of the park became the Todesstreife (death strip). After all, the Berlin Wall wasn’t just a single wall. There were two walls with a death strip in between. A refugee was arrested at the death strip, or shot before (s)he could jump over the last wall to West-Berlin.

# data[].attributes.body
The Georg-von-Rauch-Haus is the former nursing home of the Bethanien Hospital on the north-west side of Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which was occupied in December 1971.

The occupiers named the house after the Berlin urban guerrilla Georg von Rauch, who had died a few days earlier after a shootout with the police. Since then, the Rauch House has been used as a “self-managed housing collective”.

For several years it was recognized by the Berlin Senate as a contact point for homeless young people. The Rauchhaus still sees itself as a self-help project, especially for young people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Das Rauch-Haus

Das Georg-von-Rauch-Haus ist das im Dezember 1971 besetzte ehemalige Schwesternwohnheim des Bethanien-Krankenhauses an der Nord-West-Seite des Mariannenplatzes in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Das Haus wurde von den Besetzern nach dem Berliner Stadtguerillero Georg von Rauch benannt, der wenige Tage zuvor nach einem Schusswechsel mit der Polizei gestorben war. Seither wird das Rauch-Haus als „selbstverwaltetes Wohnkollektiv" genutzt. Es war mehrere Jahre vom Berliner Senat als Anlaufstelle für obdachlose Jugendliche anerkannt. Das Rauchhaus versteht sich noch immer als Selbsthilfeprojekt insbesondere von Jugendlichen aus sozial schwachen Schichten. Im Dezember 2011 brannte das Rauchhaus aus, nachdem ein Brandanschlag verübt worden war. Das Haus wurde 2012 notdürftig wieder bewohnbar gemacht und soll saniert werden. Das Geld dafür soll durch Benefizpartys aufgebracht werden.

Nach einem Teach-in (mit Konzert der Rockgruppe Ton Steine Scherben) am 8. Dezember 1971 in der Technischen Universität anlässlich des Todes Georg von Rauchs brachen dessen Teilnehmer zur Besetzung des seit 1970 leerstehenden Bethanien auf, zu welcher auch in Flugblättern aufgerufen wurde. Um 21:30 Uhr wurde die Polizei alarmiert, worauf diese sofort ein Großaufgebot zusammenzog, um die Versammlung von etwa 300 größtenteils jugendlichen Personen am nebenliegenden Mariannenplatz durch Schlagstock- und Tränengas einsatz aufzulösen. Dies gelang nicht auf Anhieb, und so ging der Berliner Senat zu Verhandlungen mit den Besetzern über. Noch im Dezember 1971 bekam das Rauchhauskollektiv - organisiert im Trägerverein „Jugendzentrum Kreuzberg e.V." - einen vorläufigen Nutzungsvertrag für das Gebäude. Seit Januar 1973 wurde dieser Nutzungsvertrag mehrfach geändert und verlängert. Die Bewohner waren meist etwa 40 bis 50 Leute zwischen 11 und 35 Jahren, die sich als „links von der SPD" verstanden.

Polizeiliche Maßnahmen

Etwa vier Monate später, am 19. April 1972 um 04:15 Uhr, wurde eine Großrazzia im Georg-von-Rauch-Haus mit rund 400 Polizisten durchgeführt. 28 Personen wurden vorläufig festgenommen. Mit sichergestellten Materialien, darunter leere Weinflaschen, Batterien, Wecker und einem defekten Wasserrohr, wollte die Polizei beweisen, dass dort Sprengstoffanschläge geplant würden. Rio Reiser besang diese Polizeiaktion im Rauch-Haus-Song der Band Ton Steine Scherben. In den Jahren 1974 und 1975 gab es noch weitere Polizeirazzien im Rauch-Haus. Gegen die Razzia vom 5. März 1975 legten einige Bewohner Beschwerde ein, nachdem dabei Inventar zerstört worden war.

zusammen und gleichberechtigt leben und versorgen

gleiches Stimmrecht (z. B. auf dem wöchentlichen Plenum)

Entwicklung von Verantwortungsgefühl

nicht auf Kosten anderer (z. B. Mitbewohnern) oder in Abhängigkeit anderer (z. B. Senat) leben

gesellschaftskritische politische Meinung an andere (z. B. am Arbeitsplatz) weitergeben

für eigene Interessen einstehen (z. B. durch Demos, Flugblattverteilung, Straßentheater u. a.)

Im Rauchhaus wohnen heute ungefähr 40 Menschen. Zu den Hauptaktivitäten des Hausprojektes gehören die Entwicklung der Hausgemeinschaft, die Sanierung des Gebäudes sowie jugendkulturelle Veranstaltungen. Der Trägerverein „Georg von Rauch-Haus Jugend- und Kulturzentrum Kreuzberg e.V." will das Rauchhaus langfristig als Selbsthilfeprojekt in Eigenregie verwalten. Anfang Dezember 2011 wurde 40 Jahre Rauchhaus gefeiert. Am 25. Dezember 2011 kam es in den frühen Morgenstunden zu einem Großbrand, bei dem laut Feuerwehr und Polizei alles auf Brandstiftung deutete, da es zwei parallele Brandherde gab. Zur Zeit des Brandes hielten sich knapp 150 Menschen im Haus auf. Neben den Bewohnern des Hauses waren noch zahlreiche Besucher einer Party im Keller zu Gast.

Seit 2013 gehört das Georg-von-Rauch-Haus zu der Genossenschaft Bremer Höhe.

Veröffentlichungen

(Buch) Jugendzentrum Kreuzberg: Kämpfen Leben Lernen. Georg von Rauch Haus. Berlin 1972, OCLC 247182086.

(Film) Georg von Rauch-Haus Kollektiv: Allein machen sie dich ein. Berlin 1973.

(Buch) Filmkollektiv Susanne Beyeler, Rainer März, Manfred Stelzer: Allein machen sie dich ein. Ein Buch zum Rauch Haus Film. Berlin 1974, .

(Buch) Georg von Rauch-Haus Kollektiv: Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen! 6 Jahre Selbstorganisation. Berlin 1977, .

(Buch) Lisa Marie Langeloh: Der Rauchhaus-Song. Authentische Berichte von 1968 und den Folgejahren. Interviews mit Ton Steine Scherben, Ulrich Enzensberger, Dorothea Ridder u.a., Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-9817886-0-0

1. Brandstiftung: Bethanien-Brand: Polizei sucht Mann, BZ, 27. Dezember 2011. Abgerufen am 16. August 2022.

2. Nach dem Brand im Rauch-Haus Feuer aus - und alle Fragen offen.

3. http://budrich-journals.de/index.php/diskurs/article/download/7118/6130

4. Deutschlandradio Kultur: Zeitreisen 7. Dezember 2011, "Ihr kriegt uns hier nicht raus!", Ton Steine Scherben, Rio Reiser und die Hausbesetzergeschichte

5. 12 Verletzte bei Feuer am Künstlerhaus Bethanien - Brandstiftung? In: 21. Januar 2019, abgerufen am 31. Januar 2024.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Das Georg-von-Rauch-Haus ist das im Dezember 1971 besetzte ehemalige Schwesternwohnheim des Bethanien-Krankenhauses an der Nord-West-Seite des Mariannenplatzes in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Das Haus wurde von den Besetzern nach dem Berliner Stadtguerillero Georg von Rauch benannt, der wenige Tage zuvor nach einem Schusswechsel mit der Polizei gestorben war. Seither wird das Rauch-Haus als „selbstverwaltetes Wohnkollektiv" genutzt.

# data[].attributes.body
The first mural, a collaboration between Blu and French artist JR, depicts two figures in the act of unmasking each other with one hand, while their other hand they display letters formed with their fingers. An ‘E’ and a ‘W’ relating to ‘east side’ and ‘west side’ respectively.

Blu painted a second mural on an adjacent wall that featured a businessman or company boss adjusting his tie while wearing two gold watches chained together like handcuffs – as if a prisoner of his own capitalist greed.

In December 2014, Blu came back to Berlin and decided to paint over his murals with black paint. The act received a lot of press coverage and different interpretations about his motives as well as igniting a debate about street art’s role in gentrification.

Blu’s murals have always had a sense of place closely tied to the neighbourhood, city and country where they were painted, often closely tied in to causes that affect the local community.  The fact that the street art itself in Kreuzberg, and Blu’s mural being one of the most iconic, had played a part in the gentrification of an area that was once home to students, musicians, artists who have been slowly displaced by yuppies and office workers would have hurt him.

https://buenosairesstreetart.com/2022/02/berlin-street-art-and-graffiti-blu-and-the-best-murals-in-the-city/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Inspired by the Slow Food movement, Slow Travel was founded by British guidebook author and travel journalist Paul Sullivan in 2010, with the aim of encouraging people to travel deeper and more mindfully.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.morethangreen.es/en/berlins-pink-pipes/

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.jakobsteensen.com/berlberl

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Berl-Berl – Time-lapse of the exhibition

# data[].attributes.body
Degrowth means an increase of autonomy based on both material and political resources. Instead of an archipelago of specialized centers, city-regions should function as network of federated communities that are at the same time self-sufficient and co-dependent.

The setting of limit must be combined with an approach to urban transformation that is built around an ethic and practice of habitability. Habitability is here understood as the property of an ecosystem to enable the survival of its inhabitants’ biotopes, being them human and more-than-human. It stresses the fact that cities are not a simple patchwork of land uses (eg. commercial, residential, industrial) but are ecosystem of relations.

Instead of setting zones for residential and commercial spaces separate – and then building a trainline or a highway between them – planning needs to think in terms of areas where production/consumption/nature/living/health come together in equilibrium. <...> This must also include a careful consideration for the maintenance of the ecological qualities of place such as clean air, clean water, agroecological spaces and biodiversity.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
How will cities look like in a degrowth society where most of the world population lives in urban areas? The quickest but most reductive way to imagine degrowth settlements is to prefigure intentional communities living happily together and in synergy with nature, realizing principles of conviviality and solidarity that enable a more cooperative and autonomous life, possibly organized around the production of food and the care of the community. There are plenty of examples of real-life degrowth in the literature and they do offer the inspiration needed for degrowth research. Yet, degrowth thinking should not rely on blueprints or already made models if it wants to enable a multitude of possible alternatives and to value its fundamental principle of autonomy. It should instead question and reimagine the social norms that underlie the organization of our society, the cultural and institutional frameworks that permit different forms of sociality to emerge. The task is not to draw on paper how cities would look like - a task that the (eco)modernist designer has already largely fulfilled - but to imagine the principles according to which cities would organize and autonomously evolve.
By Federico Savini
In a recent paper (open access), I tried to outline such principles. I critically reflected on the three essential shifts that planning can undertake in order to promote an approach to urbanization compatible with a degrowth perspective.

The essential premise of urban growth is that one city alone is far from autonomous and self-sufficient. In global economies, cities are caught into an imperative of specialization - in particular sectors of the economy - and in turn depend on the specialized performance of others. Each city is unable to produce its own food, retrieve its own resources, dispose of its own waste or produce its own energy. Degrowth means an increase of autonomy based on both material and political resources. Instead of an archipelago of specialized centers, city-regions should function as network of federated communities that are at the same time self-sufficient and co-dependent. Communities that seek coordination in provide essential common resources that they, alone, cannot provide. These may include the provision of essential materials, the organization of agriculture, a well-developed health care system, the maintenance of natural areas.

The pursuit of material and political autonomy is an enriching process. Yet, to enable it, city-governments must start thinking in terms of limits. This is what I called the paradigm of finity, the practice of governing by limits. Current urbanization is based on a planning approach that thrives out of incentives and blue-print spatial designs. Governments, often coopted by strong private lobbies, do propose ready made plans of how urban areas should develop. To stimulate private action to achieve environmental targets, they set premiums and incentives to developers, leading to the paradox of urban climate neutrality: large buildings consuming tons of materials and emitting large amounts of CO2 can still be called 'climate neutral' because they fulfil predefined criteria of environmental efficiency or bring the necessary compensatory measures (such as planting trees).

This target-based approach to ecological sustainability needs to be substituted by one based on absolute standards that work by setting thresholds that are constitutionally fixed. Absolute thresholds work differently from targets in as much as physical limits work differently from emission trading schemes. Setting a boundary to a minimum of non-built natural areas in each neighborhood is essential to avoid predatory development to occur. Other examples include minimum amounts of social housing, maximum amounts of temporary rentals and maximum amounts of agricultural and productive land for each municipality.

The setting of absolute limits may resonate with an old-fashioned approach to socialist urbanization but it is far from being so. Limits have been a common instrument of neoliberal states because they create scarcity and thus promote economic transactions. The essential difference is that in a world dominated by negotiations and public-private joint ventures limits have been instrumentally used, adapted and manipulated. They worked as relative environmental targets based on performance: everything is possible as far as the performance target is reached. The result has been an approach to relative sustainability that has progressively greenwashed contemporary capitalism instead of promoting significant socio-economic change. Yet, only if limits will work as a true redistributive mechanism, a degrowth transition will be one that is both ecological and socially just.

The setting of limit must be combined with an approach to urban transformation that is built around an ethic and practice of habitability. Habitability is here understood as the property of an ecosystem to enable the survival of its inhabitants' biotopes, being them human and more-than-human. It stresses the fact that cities are not a simple patchwork of land uses (eg. commercial, residential, industrial) but are ecosystem of relations. Agricultural areas support local neighborhoods, green areas support free time, buildings support mobility and so on. The future of cities needs to reimagine spatial form in a way that produces such relations, maintains those that are ecologically regenerative, and reduces those relations that are (self)destructive for the urban ecosystem. Instead of setting zones for residential and commercial spaces separate - and then building a trainline or a highway between them - planning needs to think in terms of areas where production/consumption/nature/living/health come together in equilibrium. This should become a new compass of urban quality that appreciates the extent to which a particular area, a city or a neighborhood, are able to balance multiple social, economic and environmental qualities. This must also include a careful consideration for the maintenance of the ecological qualities of place such as clean air, clean water, agroecological spaces and biodiversity.

A regional polycentric autonomy results from the careful pursuit of habitability that is realized through the recognition of a finity paradigm to urbanization. A degrowth urbanization should combine a regional view on socio-economic organization with the prototyping of regulations that enables absolute limits and, in so doing, allow for the redistribution of wealth and land to enable and protect habitability.

About the author

Federico Savini works at the University of Amsterdam as Assistant Professor in Environmental Planning, Institutions and Politics.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
How will cities look like in a degrowth society where most of the world population lives in urban areas? The quickest but most reductive way to imagine degrowth settlements is to prefigure intentional communities living happily together and in synergy with nature, realizing principles of conviviality and solidarity that enable a more cooperative and autonomous life, possibly organized around the production of food and the care of the community.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Zwei Ansichten einer Stadt. Kommen Sie mit uns auf Zeitreise und gleiten Sie aus dem Berlin des Jahres 1928 in das von heute.

# data[].attributes.headline
Article on collective spirituality in electronic music

# data[].attributes.subject
Article on collective spirituality in electronic music

# data[].attributes.body
https://streetartcities.com/cities/berlin

# data[].attributes.body
Also other one:

https://urban-nation.com/de/artist/paradox/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Berlin Kidz are an admirable group of sprayers, train surfers, parkour runners and artists from Berlin-Kreuzberg. Their style is recognizable by the large-format vertical letter in a Brazilian Pichação style. This group is also famous for making guerrilla actions to send a message. Berlin Kidz have…

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
Berlin Kidz

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Mo 13 :00 - 17:00 Offener Garten
Di 13 :00 - 18:00 Offener Garten, ab 14:00 Suppenküche
Mi 13 :00 - 17:00 Offener Garten
Do 12 :00 - 18:00 Offener Garten
Fr 8 :30 - 17:00 Offener Garten
Sa 8 :30 - 17:00 Offener Garten
So 12:00 - ca. 18:00 Offener Garten, Plenum 12:00 - 13:30

Der Garten wird von der Nachbarschaft selbstverwaltet geöffnet, die Öffnungszeiten ergeben sich jeden Sonntag in unserem offenen Plenum aus der Bereitschaft der Anwesenden.
Die Öffnungszeiten werden jede Woche im Sonntagsplenum beschlossen und online und am schwarzen Brett am Eingang Moritzplatz veröffentlicht.

Offenes Plenum jeden Sonntag um 12 Uhr. Alle sind eingeladen.

So. 21. März 2021
9.30 - 17.00 Uhr
Workshop von Stefan Fischer
Kreisläufe im Garten permakulturell planen

„Lerne wie Du einen Garten mit permakulturellen Methoden planen und in vielerlei Hinsicht verbessern und damit etwas zur biologischen Vielfalt, besserem Klima und eigener Freiheit beitragen kannst."

Wir lernen die Permakultur-Ethik, die Gestaltungs-Prinzipien und einige Methoden zur Bestandsaufnahme und Gestaltung von Gärten an Beispielen vor Ort kennen. Es wird sowohl praktisch als auch theoretisch gearbeitet. Von 12-13.30 Uhr ist Pause (bzw sind wird dann im Plenum, danach geht es weiter)
Der Workshop ist auf Spendenbasis. Im Garten gelten die aktuellen Corona-Regeln. Bitte bringt euch Wasser und etwas zu Essen mit. Die Teilnehmer_innenzahl ist auf 20 Menschen beschränkt, bitte meldet euch unter info@common-grounds.net an

Wir sind ein nichtkommerzieller und selbstorganisierter Garten. Du findest unsere Öffnungszeiten wöchentlich aktualisiert auf unsere wechangeseite:
https://wechange.de/project/prinzessinnen-garten-am-moritzplatz-na/microsite/

Wir sind auch im Winter durchgängig geöffnet!

Auch im Winter ist der Garten schön, wir haben viel zu tun: Bodenaufbau mit Holzhäckselnd, Biogutannahme darauf machen wir Kompost und Bokashi, und natürlich die Strukturen aufbauen...

Hallo liebe Besucher_innen,
der Garten ist auch im Winter geöffnet. Der Garten wird von der Nachbarschaft selbstverwaltet geöffnet, die Öffnungszeiten besprechen wir jeden Sonntag in unserem Offenen Plenum. Die wöchentlich aktuellen Öffnungszeiten findest du hier: https://wechange.de/project/prinzessinnen-garten-am-moritzplatz-na/microsite/ oder am schwarzen Brett beim Eingang vom Garten. Je mehr Gruppen und Nachbar_innen sich aktiv beteiligen, desto mehr und länger könne wir den Garten für alle Menschen öffnen.**

Jeden Sonntag ab 12.00 Uhr ist offenes Plenum. Wenn du mithelfen möchtest, den Garten aufzubauen, kannst du die aktiven Menschen dort kennenlernen. Wir öffnen als Nachbarschaft und Mitstreiter*innen den Garten selbstorganisiert.

Jeden Sonntag ab 12 Uhr ist offenes Plenum. Wenn du mithelfen möchtest, den Garten aufzubauen, kannst du die aktiven Menschen dort kennenlernen. Wir öffnen als Nachbarschaft und Mitstreiter*innen den Garten selbstorganisiert.

Die aktuellen Öffnungszeiten für den jeweiligen Monat findest du immer du an unsere Gartentüre und am schwarzen Brett. Je mehr Gruppen und Nachbar_innen sich aktiv beteiligen, desto mehr und länger könne wir den Garten für alle Menschen öffnen.

Was wir machen:
Pflanzen jäten und ernten, bewässern, Bodenaufbau, Kompost in verschiedenen Formen.Die (Kleinst-)Lebewesen entdecken und für diese Lebensräume gestalten nach dem Vorbild der Natur.
Im Nachbarschaftsgarten arbeiten wir nach der Ethik und den Prinzipien des Permakultur-Designs (Pflege der Menschen, Pflege der Natur, Vorsorge für die Zukunft)

- Der Nachbarschaftsgarten am Moritzplatz ist ein Ort für Begegnungen und ein Inklusionsgarten - offen für alle, insbesondere auch für Menschen, deren Teilhabe in unserer Gesellschaft strukturell behindert wird.
- Im Vordergrund steht für uns das Prinzip„Beitragen statt Tauschen" - wir arbeiten an der dauerhaften Erhaltung des Gartens als gemeinschaftlich organisierten Ort und als Gemeingut. Denn wir brauchen zukünftig viel mehr Gemeinschaftsgärten in den Kiezen.
- Für uns und die kommenden Generationen. Wir arbeiten an der zukünftigen kommunalen Daseinsvorsorge: basisdemokratisch, 100% nicht-kommerziell und hierarchiefrei.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.eastsidegalleryexhibition.com/topics/deaths-in-the-river/

# data[].attributes.body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediaspree

Mediaspree is one of the largest property investment projects in Berlin. It aims to establish telecommunication and media companies along a section of the banks of the river Spree as well as to implement an urban renewal of the surrounding area.

The Mediaspree project has been subject to extensive critique.[27][28] It is feared that, among other things, longtime residents will be displaced by rising maintenance costs, which will come about by virtue of the deliberate gentrification of the surrounding residential areas

The protests were primarily coordinated by the "Mediaspree versenken" Bürgerinitiative (citizen's initiative), which was founded by the architect Carsten Joost, among others. Under the slogan Spreeufer für alle! ("Spree riverfront for all!"), the Bündnis Informationsveranstaltungen für Anwohner (The "Informational Events for Residents" Alliance) organized so-called "neighborhood walks" against the project and led a citizen's campaign for the co-determination of the Spree riverfront.[33]

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/42240/1/622887793.pdf

Interviews with Carsten Joost:

https://www.eastsidegalleryexhibition.com/contemporary-witnesses/joost/

# data[].attributes.body
Maria Miles illustration

# data[].attributes.body
14:00-17:00 NFW walk - public event
Ending point: Radialsystem

16:00-22:00 Forecast Festival Day_02
Radialsystem

# data[].attributes.body
Preparing for the Saturday walk

*not an official part of the Spring School program

18:00-22:00 Forecast Festival Day_01

Radialsystem

# data[].attributes.body
Preparing for the Saturday walk

*not an official part of the Spring School program

# data[].attributes.body
10:00-12:00 Developing walking narratives in smaller groups

Raum 2, Radialsystem

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

Good weather: Outdoor

Bad weather: Atelier B (1st floor), Kubus (3rd floor?), Radialsystem

13:00-14:00 Bringing narratives together and developing one route

Raum 2, Radialsystem

14:00-16:00 Rehearsal walk outside

16:00-17:00 NFW final wrap-up session

Raum 2, Radialsystem

17:00-18:00 Collective Reflection: Spring School

Studio B,  Radialsystem

18:30 - 22:00 Evening get-together

Good weather: terrace,  Radialsystem

Bad weather: Saal,  Radialsystem

# data[].attributes.body
09:30-12:00 Secret garden tour with Markus (meeting point at MerienDorf at 9:30 and walk from there)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

Good weather: Outdoor

Bad weather: Atelier B (1st floor), Kubus (3rd floor?), Radialsystem

13:00-16:00 City inspection in smaller groups outside

16:00-17:00 Collective Reflection: Spring School

Studio B,  Radialsystem

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability

# data[].attributes.body
We are an international and integrative team with a variety of backgrounds and a common passion for creative sustainability. id22 brings together architects, planners, sociologists, artists, community developers and gardeners, educators and others. With members, partners and volunteers from many countries, we study and support pioneering local Berlin initiatives, recognizing there are crises emerging in the world around us. Our Institute emphasizes communication and networking, cooperation and conviviality.

On Berlin:

Urban Lab. City of Possibilities. War Torn and Divided. Poor but sexy and gentrified. Creative City. German Capital. Playground for Urban Pioneers. Habitat for Squatting, CoHousing, Community and Cooperatives. Urban Farming and Gardening center. Magnet for students, budget travelers, refugees, experimenters, investors and homeless. Demonstration of Creative Sustainability. Berlin is all of these things!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
About us

We are an international and integrative team with a variety of backgrounds and a common passion for creative sustainability. id22 brings together architects, planners, sociologists, artists, community developers and gardeners, educators and others. With members, partners and volunteers from many countries, we study and support pioneering local Berlin initiatives, recognizing there are crises emerging in the world around us. Our Institute emphasizes communication and networking, cooperation and conviviality.

The Institute

id22 is a non-profit, civil-society-based organisation with about 20 members working with creative sustainability, connecting theory and practice in Berlin, emphasizing self-organisation. The main topic of the Institute is CoHousing as a foundation for cultures of sustainable urban development.

History

The Institute was founded in Berlin's UfaFabrik, a model ecological and cultural urban village, on February 14, 2003. Inspiration came from a large event in 2000, called id22: The Festival for Culture, Ecology and Community. A bottom-up, multidisciplinary approach to sustainability has been the main approach from the very start. In 2008 the Institute moved to a new Building Community in Prenzlauer Berg and then in 2012 began the move to the Spreefed CoHousing project in Berlin-Mitte where it is now based.

Expertise

Our Institute emphasizes communication and networking, cooperation and conviviality, with a focus on self-organisation and local initiatives. In our interdisciplinary team we combine different approaches to sustainability, working with architecture, urban planning, geography, arts and social sciences.

Board

Dr Michael LaFond

Community Developer, Project Manager and Urban Activist. Founder and Director of id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability. Current work studies and publicizes relationships among self-organized housing, common good urban development processes and sustainability. Projects include the Berlin Community Land Trust (Stadtbodenstiftung), Kollektiveslernen, books CoHousing Cultures and CoHousing Inclusive, the annual housing fair EXPERIMENTDAYS, the online platform CoHousing-Berlin, creative sustainability tours, etc. Personally active for decades with CoHousing. Since 2011 involved in the development of the Spreefeld Housing Cooperative. At home in the Spreefeld's Spree WG 1 shared-living group.

Initial degree and work experience in architecture. Interdisciplinary Dissertation in Urban Design and Planning in Seattle and Berlin. Since 2000 teaching contracts with a range of universities including: FU and TU Berlin, Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, CIEE Future Cities, BTK and UW CHID Berlin. A variety of university, research and teaching projects deal with participatory, civil society-initiated, common good re-developments of urban land and buildings, informal planning, innovative uses of environmental technologies and democratizations of urban planning processes.
Partners include Land Berlin, the European Commission and a large number of foundations.

A focus is on urban, international Community-Led Housing: self-organized, community-oriented, inclusive and regenerative forms of housing. Another special interest is the exploration and development of convivial technologies. In this sense id22 has been developed with its diversity of communications' strategies: Objectives include being informative and enjoyable, provocative and constructive, communicative, creative and most importantly human.

Board

Alex Behm

Alexander Behm, born 1987 in Schwedt/Oder, is a freelance journalist, scientist and project manager in the fields of culture and sustainable urban development. He studied history, political science and sociology in Dresden and Modern South Asian Studies at the HU Berlin. Since 2018 he has been working as a freelancer for id22, the Institute for Creative Sustainability, in Berlin and is involved in various projects of sustainable and public welfare-oriented urban development, including the id22 projects EXPERIMENTDAYS and CoHousing Berlin.
In February 2020 he was elected to the board of the association.

Board

Giulia Carones

After studying Philosophy and Politics at the University of Stirling, UK, I completed my Master of Science in Cultural Anthropology: Sustainable Citizenship at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, with a thesis on city perception through the lenses of political activism. During my studies, I have acquired and refined a drive for transformational research with an impact on cities and how city dwellers perceive them, and am now pursuing a Research Training Master Programme at Berlin's Humboldt University. At present, I am based in Berlin, collaborating with id22 since my arrival in the city in Autumn 2018. Being elected to the board in February 2020 has strengthened my enthusiasm for the work we do at id22, and the motivation to contribute to its development.

Since 2014 we have been working in our self-organized Project Space, where we are engaged with our local community, which includes the Spreeacker Initiative and Spreefeld Cooperative.

Project space

The id22 Project Space is inclusive as it integrates CoWorking with project development as well as the creating and exhibiting of art. Office work complements discussions, performances and workshops. Of course the space is an example of Do-It-Together architecture, emphasizing process and participation.

Spreefeld

The Spreefeld Building and Housing Cooperative is one of Berlin's best examples of self-organized CoHousing, providing apartments for about 130 people and working spaces for about 100. The ground level and extensive landscape bordering the Spree offer diverse places and services for the general public, including community gardens and cultural spaces, daycare and wood workshop. The buildings represent an ecological, passive standard, the site is car-free, and the opportunities for participation are many.

Spreeacker

Spreeacker was initiated by the Spreefeld Cooperative in 2011 before the construction began, to actively engage a variety of cultural, educational and gardening initiatives - incl. id22 and Spreegarten -
in the development of the site. The non-profit Spreeacker association was founded in 2014 to be able to continue to support local community gardening as well as to bring together the cooperative and neighborhood in the development of the planned Spree shore path.

Alongside our projects and activities, we continue developing our partnerships and collaborations locally and internationally. Our long-standing work with CoHousing | Berlin entails raising awareness and spreading knowledge and resources for people interested in alternative, community-led housing arrangements. Together, we provide a free-access platform featuring model projects, multi-media resources and inspiring people from the universe of CoHousing. Internationally, we are partnering up with like-minded organisations and initiatives such as Urbamonde and Co-Lab Research TU Delft to strengthen a shared understanding and commitment of what alternative housing solutions can bring to our cities.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The Berlin Institute offers educational programs, organizes networking events and publishes publications about cohousing and sustainable urban development.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Aim High, Degrow Session #1: Dialogues on Degrowth

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.authors[].name
Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change YorkU

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Aim High, Degrow Session #1: Dialogues on Degrowth

# data[].attributes.body
https://berlinwallmap.info/map/

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.documentaryarea.com/video/B-Movie:%20Lust%20and%20Sound%20in%20West-Berlin%201979-1989/

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/23/1121435229/berlin-clubs-techno-berghain-kitkatclub

Hegemann, the Tresor owner, says clubs are not just for hedonism and escapism, but also for incubating ideas.

Bringing back the nightlife:

A hotelier named Heinz Zellermayer had enough of it. He grabbed a bottle of whiskey and made his case to Brig. Gen. Frank Howley, the commandant over the American sector of West Berlin.

"They need the hours of the night the way we need our dear bread," Zellermayer is remembered to have said, according to a biography of the family written by his sister, Ilse Eliza Zellermayer.

# data[].attributes.body
Small documentary - interviews session about the roots of techno in berlin.
The berlin wall's surroundings with its grey zones and vacant houses was a special setting for newness and space where new cultures could emerge.
Music - uniting power, meditation, tool to escape the reality

# data[].attributes.body
The name Berlin has its roots in the language of the West Slavs, and may be related to the Old Polabian stem berl-/birl- ("swamp").[24]

Berger, Dieter (1999).

https://www.slowtravelberlin.com/swamp-city/#:~:text=G%20iven%20that%20Berlin%20is,mystery%20that%20not%20much%20city

On Berlin's swampy origins:

Between 02:00-06:00

https://www.dw.com/en/revisiting-berlins-wetlands-the-global-food-agenda-and-queer-inclusion/audio-59287208

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Description

Especially recommended for Mate drinkers based around Berlin. This Nettle was collected in Spring 2016 by our local Mate Shaman, Hasha, from Kesselberg (literally meaning the Kettle mountain). The slightly bitter adaptogenic Nettle leaves, an essential herb from the Deutsche Heilkunde, combine harmonisouly with a mate.

According to Wikipedia: U. dioica herb has been used in the traditional Austrian medicine internally (as tea or fresh leaves) to treat disorders of the kidneys and urinary tract, gastrointestinal tract, locomotor system, skin, cardiovascular system, hemorrhage, influenza, rheumatism, and gout.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Wild Sammelung 2016 for a regional touch

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Secret Berlin: Berlin’s former water pumping stations

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Secret Berlin: Berlin’s former water pumping stations

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
They’re not only striking examples of 19th century industrial architecture - one of Berlin’s former pumping stations has been converted into an arts complex with a wonderful riverside terrace

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/respublika

# data[].attributes.headline
Audio walk from Floating university to Radialsystem

# data[].attributes.subject
Audio walk from Floating university to Radialsystem

# data[].attributes.body
http://www.alexdelittle.com/portfolio/floating-radialsystem/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Course of the Luisenstadt Canal (light blue), showing the line of the Berlin Wall (red).

The Luisenstadt Canal, or Luisenstädtischer Kanal, is a 2.3-kilometre-long (1.4 mi) former canal in Berlin, Germany. It is named after the Luisenstadt district and ran through today's districts of Kreuzberg and Mitte, linking the Landwehr Canal with the Spree River, and serving a central canal basin known as the Engelbecken or Angel's Pool. The canal is named after Queen Louise, the wife of King Friedrich Wilhelm III.

The canal was designed by Peter Joseph Lenné based on earlier plans by Johann Carl Ludwig Schmid and was built between 1848 and 1852. Besides its water transport and land drainage and sewage roles, it was also conceived as a design element in the development of the surrounding area, and was designed as a decorative strip, flanked by quays lined with neoclassical buildings.

The canal never achieved significant boat traffic, and due to low flow levels its water became stagnant and severely nauseant, also due to the increasing quantity of water coming from sewage network. Between 1926 and 1932, the canal was partially filled in and transformed by the landscape gardener Erwin Barth into a sunken garden, with ground level at about the old water level. The Engelbecken was retained as an ornamental pool with the addition of fountains.

During and immediately after the Second World War, parts of the gardens were badly damaged, and sections of the sunken gardens in-filled with rubble. In 1961 the Berlin Wall was constructed along the northern part of the route of the former canal. Since 1991, many of the destroyed gardens have been reconstructed, and restored to the design of 1928.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Luisenstadt Canal, or Luisenstädtischer Kanal, is a 2.3-kilometre-long (1.4 mi) former canal in Berlin, Germany. It is named after the Luisenstadt district and ran through today's districts of Kreuzberg and Mitte, linking the Landwehr Canal with the Spree River, and serving a central canal basin known as the Engelbecken or Angel's Pool.

# data[].attributes.body
9:30-11:00 Arrival at Radialsystem (mentors and mentees)

11:00 - 12:00 Welcome Session by LSS with an introduction to Forecast by Freo Majer

Studio B, Radialsystem

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

Good weather: Outdoor

Bad weather: Atelier B (1st floor), Kubus (3rd floor?), Radialsystem

13:00-14:30 Introduction to NFW and workshop scenario and structure

Raum 2, Radialsystem

14:30-15:30 Group walking session outside

15:30 -16:00 NFW wrap-up session

Raum 2, Radialsystem

# data[].attributes.body
https://maps.app.goo.gl/E6jCQCUAp8bnK7jv8

# data[].attributes.body
strange island with a weird observation deck-balcony

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.berlin-besetzt.de/#!

# data[].attributes.body
Fenced closed area - no tourists vibes

quite impressive to pass by though

https://www.koepi137.net/history.html

Cinema Mondays and Thursdays evenings

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Die Besetzung

Die Köpenicker Str. 137 wurde am 23.02.1990 besetzt. Kurz zuvor war das Haus entmietet worden. Durch die Besetzung wurde der geplante Abriß des Gebäudes verhindert. Im Sommer 1991 wurde mit der Verwalterin des Hauses der W.B.M. (Wohnungsbau-gesellschaft Mitte), ein Vorvertrag über die Nutzung sämtlicher Räume des Hauses abgeschlossen. Der Vertrag betrifft sowohl Maßnahmen der baulichen Selbsthilfe als auch den Abschluß von Einzelmietverträgen für die Wohnräume.
Am 01.05.1993 wurden dann mit der neuen Verwalterin des Hauses, der G.S.E. (Gesellschaft für Stadtentwicklung), unbefristete Mietverträge für die Wohnräume des Hauses abgeschlossen.

Fehlgeschlagene Vertreibungsversuche

1994 wurde im Rahmen eines Rückübertragungsverfahrens Volquard Petersen neuer Eigentümer des Gebäudes. Um freie Bahn für seine Planungen eines Bürokomplexes zu haben kündigte er 1996 die Mietverträge und reichte eine Räumungsklage ein. Diese wurde aber abgewiesen, die Kündigungen für nichtig erklärt.
In der Zwischenzeit hatte Petersen hohe Schulden angehäuft; 1998 wurde das Haus gepfändet und unter Zwangsverwaltung gestellt. Die Commerzbank beantragte die Zwangsversteigerung des Hauses. 1999 wurde dann tatsächlich mehrmals versucht das Haus zu versteigern. Zahlreiche Proteste und Solidaritätsaktionen, aber wohl auch die Existenz gültiger Mietverträge für das Haus, wirkten jedoch offensichtlich abschreckend auf potentielle Investoren - bei den ersten beiden Versteigerungen fand sich kein einziger Interessent; der Antrag für eine dritte Versteigerung wurde im Mai 2000 zurückgezogen.

Verwaltung des Hauses

Die Zwangsverwaltung des Hauses wurde aufgehoben und an Petersen rückübertragen, von dem seitdem nichts mehr zu hören war. Die Hausbewohner gründeten daraufhin eine Mieternotgemeinschaft und schlossen Verträge mit den Versorgungsunternehmen ab. Seitdem wird die gesamte Verwaltung des Hauses von der Mieternotgemeinschaft geleistet. Das gesamte Frisch- und Abwassersystem sowie das Dach sind in Eigenarbeit komplett erneuert worden. Die Kellerräume wurden unter hohem Aufwand trocken gelegt und nutzbar gemacht. Umfangreiche Sanierungsarbeiten in den Wohnungen und ständige kleinere Reparaturen und Instandhaltungsmaßnahmen werden von uns selbst erledigt. Keine Hausverwaltung und kein Eigentümer sind nötig um unser rattenscharfes Projekt am Leben zu halten!

Die Zwangsversteigerung 2007

2007 kam es erneut zu einer Zwangsversteigerung. Amtsgericht und die Gläubigerin Commerzbank mauschelten im Vorfeld, versuchten den Verkauf möglichst geheim zu halten und verscherbelten schließlich die KØPI und den KØPI-Wagenplatz zur Hälfte des Verkehrswertes an den Spekulanten Besnik Fichtner. Dieser operierte aus einem dubiosen Firmengeflecht heraus, hinter dem sich die Firma Nehls Immobilien versteckt hatte. Die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelte laut Berliner Zeitung gegen ihn und diverse Hintermänner unter anderem wegen schweren Betrugs. Fichtner kündigte in der Berliner Zeitung an, auf dem Gelände Luxuslofts mit Yachtliegeplätzen errichten zu wollen. Dass die KØPI nicht am Wasser liegt und es somit schwer werden wird einen Hafen auf dem Gelände zu errichten scheinen Fichtner, Nehls & Co. vor lauter Habgier ganz vergessen zu haben. Wie auch immer, letztendlich wurden nach einem Possenspiel innerhalb der Nehls Clique für das Erdgeschoss und den Keller, in denen die Gemeinschaftsräume liegen,ein Vertrag mit einer Laufzeit von 29 Jahren abgeschlossen. Die seit Anfang der 90er-Jahre existierenden Mietverträge für die Wohnräume laufen weiter unbefrist.

Versteigerung 2013

Im Februar 2013 wurden vor dem Amtsgericht Mitte auf Antrag der Commerzbank 2 Grundstücke neben der Köpi, auf denen sich der Wagenplatz befindet, zur Versteigerung gebracht. Am Ende wurde jedoch nur eins der Grundstücke ersteigert, und zwar von Rechtsanwalt Friedrich Spek, der im Auftrag einer GmbH auftrat - hinter der sich niemand anderes als erneut eine der Nehls Unternehmungen verbirgt. Aus der Sicht von Nehls dürfte das Areal interessanter denn je sein: Die Köpenicker Straße in Mitte ist seit 2011 als „Nördliche Luisenstadt" ein Sanierungsgebiet, der Senat will dort Millionen in Infrastruktur investieren. Inzwischen hat sich eine Initiative zusammengefunden, die sich mit der Yuppiesierung der Luisenstadt auseinandersetzt. Denn von der großkotzigen Stadtplanungen ist nicht nur die Köpi betroffen...

Die KØPI - Selbstverwaltetes Wohn- und Kulturprojekt

Das Haus bietet Wohnraum für ca. 50 Menschen einschließlich ihrer Kinder, von denen einige seit ihrer Geburt im Haus wohnen. Die gemeinschaftlich genutzten Räume bieten Platz für die verschiedensten unkommerziellen Kulturveranstaltungen. In den zwei Konzerträumen sind in den letzten mehr als 20 Jahren Hunderte von Bands aus allen Kontinenten aufgetreten - Berliner Nachwuchskünstler ebenso wie nahmhafte Musiker aus Amerika, Europa oder Asien. Für viele osteuropäische Musiker war die KØPI der erste Auftrittsort in Deutschland. Aber auch zahlreiche Theateraufführungen sowie Tanz- und andere Performances finden auf den Bühnen der KØPI statt.
Hinzu kommt ein nicht-kommerzielles Videokino, kostenlos nutzbare Sport- und Theaterräume, eine selbstverwaltete Siebdruckwerkstatt, der Techno-Keller, Berlins ältester Kletterraum, das offene Büro, vegan/vegetarische Volxküchen, ein Bandproberaum und vieles mehr. - und all dies ganz bewußt ohne einen einzigen Cent von Staat, Stadt, Parteien oder sonstigen "Wohltätern".
Die neuem Planungen sehen neben Lofts und Luxusstudentenheimen auch Party- und Konzertlocations vor. Dass wir auch das besser können, haben wir in den letzten Jahrzehnten wohl klar bewiesen...

Köpi ist und bleibt Risikokapital!

einen weiteren, sehr guten Artikel zur Köpigeschichte gibt es auf indymedia

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Die Besetzung Die Köpenicker Str. 137 wurde am 23.02.1990 besetzt. Kurz zuvor war das Haus entmietet worden. Durch die Besetzung wurde der geplante Abriß des Gebäudes verhindert. Im Sommer 1991 wurde mit der Verwalterin des Hauses der W.B.M. (Wohnungsbau-gesellschaft Mitte), ein Vorvertrag über die Nutzung sämtlicher Räume des Hauses abgeschlossen.

# data[].attributes.body
it is closed in winter

Occupied 2012

The Teepee Land was created during the threatened eviction of the Cuvryfalle in the summer of 2012.
The tent city is located directly on the banks of the Spree behind the former ice cream factory and is home to around 50 residents from all over the world.
Occasionally there are public events such as film screenings or concerts.

"Teepeeland is an open, non-commercial and democratic neighborhood, residential and cultural project. Here, people from different generations and nations live together in a community, beyond social constraints. In doing so, they raise central questions about how people live together in the big city. The inhabitants of Teepeeland have very different professions and activities. Internally there is a solid structure. All decisions are made in a grassroots democratic way at a weekly plenary session.

Anyone who wants to is very welcome in Teepeeland.

The residents of Teepeeland want to live in harmony with nature. The economical use of resources and the orientation towards sustainability are two important principles. So (as far as possible) nothing is bought, but what is already available is further processed. People do not live in permanent houses but only in tippis or yurts, i.e. in portable dwellings. To build the tippis or yurts, only materials that are found unused in public spaces are used. Material that has already served a purpose is given a second life here.

Teepeeland is well networked with the neighborhood and local initiatives and is involved in local decision-making processes, such as the design of the waterfront area. It takes part in international cultural events.

Teepeeland also hosts its own cultural events such as cinema or comedy evenings. The jam session that takes place every Saturday has already become a real insider tip. Professional musicians and amateur or street musicians come together here."

https://teepeeland.wordpress.com/ueber-uns-about-us/

# data[].attributes.body
Quite an old video where you can see the wasteland that is about to disappear - currently, the brick factory is already turned into a modern building, and the empty space is just to become a construction site.

You can see Radialsystem in the background.

Fenced area closeby the teepeeland

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Wasteland Berlin Visit - 'Abendbrot ist fertig! - Dinner is ready!'

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
recorded performance for Wasteland Berlin.
Please see wasteland-twinning.net for details

# data[].attributes.headline
STARTING & ENDING POINT  -  Radialsystem

# data[].attributes.subject
STARTING & ENDING POINT  -  Radialsystem

# data[].attributes.body
" Since 2006, this one-time pumping station on the Spree has been host to wide-ranging performances, transforming the entire building and its grounds into a stage." (Radialsystem website)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Radialsystem is an institutional anchor of Berlin's independent arts scene: as a venue for contemporary performance art, this establishment develops, investigates and presents new forms of artistic expression, particularly in the areas of choreography, music theater and concerts, thereby unleashing international momentum. We want to know what 21st-century music sounds like and adopt a global perspective to question categorisations such as "classical" or "contemporary". Through the encounter between music and other arts, we search for forms of expression beyond the classical concert or opera. As part of the vibrant Berlin dance scene, we create space and visibility for local and international artists alike.

Radialsystem aims to sound out boundaries - to make them permeable and, at times, to redefine them. We bring into conversation people with different experiences, bodies and ways of thinking, and together we search for new narratives about our world. It is our desire to make culture visible and experiential, as a landscape of many equally valid perspectives. Contradictions are allowed and ought to coexist, affect one another and create friction.

We work with partners at the intersection of art, science and society, and want to learn from marginalised voices in particular, to empower one another and to reach a collective diversity.