Urbane Praxis 2023+
On December 15, 2022, IFAH was invited to hold a workshop in Berlin for the members of the “Urbane Praxis” association; in the middle of Berlin, in the new “lobby” of the association at Mehrinplatz 8 in Kreuzberg.
Publication “BEWARE, UTOPIA!”
This book contains a compilation of scientific and artistic contributions from the Cultural Typhoon in Europe (CTE), which took place in Nuremberg in autumn 2017. The title “BEWARE, UTOPIA!” was already a program at that time and was conceptually developed in the present publication. Based on a foreword, the contributions are divided into three chapters: “I. HETEROTOPIAS,” “II. UTOPIAN IMAGINATIONS,” and “III. UTOPIAN DESIRE,” each accompanied by a brief introduction.
Achtung Utopie! Future workshop BAUPALAST
This future workshop was an artistic building and research project for the temporary realization of the BAUPALAST in the Rathausblock in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Here, city makers, initiatives, small business owners, and residents jointly created the framework for a future long-term self-designing meeting and experimentation space. With the “ACHTUNG UTOPIE!” workshop on September 20 and 21, 2020, the Institute for Applied Heterotopia provided a creative space in which participants could explore central questions of their individual desires and visions for the Dragonerareal up to the year 2040.
Experience of Space
by Stefan Becker Experience of Space. Perception of Urban Settings with the Body Apparatus and Cultural Techniques as Creative Event of Thinking, Atmosphere and Society 1. What is called Thinking? When we talk about the concept of space, we are generally concerned with a specific (and most of the time personal) notion of space that …
InspirationsDORF
BEWARE, Utopia! This artistic work sees itself as a documentation of the ideas and visions of people in and around the village community Flegessen, Hasperde and Klein Süntel (FHKS). At the same time it shows the desire to actively shape one’s own living environment. InspirationsDORF is expressly not intended as a perfect, comprehensive guide to …
Cultural Typhoon in Europe 2017 in Nuremberg
This year’s Cultural Typhoon in Europe (CTE) in Nuremberg, entitled “Beware Utopia! Virtual, Actual and Past Visions of Urban Futures” offers a forum for scholars (especially from the fields of media and cultural studies, urban planning, anthropology or social sciences) as well as social activists and artists with an interest in urban cultures and politics …