The Institute for Applied Heterotopia uses professional methods and concepts to guide your organisation through change processes. We support you in sharpening your goals and developing a clear path to achieve them. IFAH consists of an independent project team with academic and artistic expertise in the fields of communication and moderation, architecture and urbanism, sociology as well as media and cultural studies.
On Drawing Heterotopia
by Grit Koalick: According to Focault [1] heterotopias are spaces with contrasting meanings and specific rules, reflecting social circumstances by representing, negating or reversing them. They can be seen as a kind of already realized and located utopia. Drawing is an activity…
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…
Future Workshop Youth Art School of Vorpommern Rügen
Open Dreaming
The five-kilometre-long “Collus von Prora” was built by the Nazis as a “strength through joy” seaside resort on Rügen. Today there are exclusive hotels, restaurants and apartments. In August 2019, the creative-artistic holiday offer of the Jugendkunstschule Vorpommern-Rügen e. V., including “Open…
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…
The Chewing Gum Effect
Workshop collaboration with Barbara Lubich and Elisabeth Wulff-Werthner from cultural center Zentralwerk, Dresden, at the annual Trans Europe Halles conference. Bilbao, Spain, 2018. The “Chewing Gum Effect” is what we explored together in this workshop. Outgoing from artistic experiences and strategies in…