Sharing the View
In this workshop, which took place one street away from Berlin’s “Geographical middle”, we looked for a common view on the city. Through a series of noticing and description exercises, we explored how our individual perspectives influence how we see, describe, and relate to our surroundings.
Using photography, writing, and collage, we then created a personal “mini-landscape”, an expression of how one experiences the city’s essence, its core. The aim of the workshop was to compare our perspectives and practice layering our personal narratives into a collective panorama. A shared landscape composed of many views.
Part of the Le Geste de Commun Program, curated by Livia Tarsia in Curia (Another Here) and Émilie d’Ornano (KOMMET, Lyon).
November 19-21, 2025
Location: Bona Peiser Soziokulturelle Projekträume, Berlin (DE)
Report from the outside
What parts make up our surroundings? Which themes can be read in the city-landscape? What do we (over)see? ‘Report from the Outside’ is an ongoing inquiry into the urban landscape of Berlin. It practices noticing and re-evaluating our daily sceneries. It uses found objects, photography and poetry to ask: what is it that we value? What has meaning to us?
In this walk around the neighborhood we joined to discuss the (current) state of (public) art. We gathered, wrote and distilled what we found in Kreuz-kölln, and eventually created our own communal report from the outside.
This workshop took place in the framework of the Report from the Outside Exhibition. @Kanapé – May 2025
Photo credit: Jamie Szkarupa
Mapping as a Tool for Storytelling
In this workshop we look into how one can use mapping as a tool for storytelling. What is the practice of mapping, actually? What kind of maps do we know? Can we think of examples like the songlines in Australia or medieval maps picturing local tales. Who has the power to map? What problems occur around it? What happens if we look beyond a map as an assumed objective tool and embrace its possibility for noting down subjective subtleties? Can we map the feeling of a place? And how can we use it to locate the stories we want to share?Taught to various classes of BA- and MA-students, on the site of the Floating University, 2021.
