Urban Lab
Urban Lab - Mentoring Programm
Welche sind die ersten Schritte. um die Stadt zu begegnen? Welche sind ihre Gesichter, welche Orte zählen? Welche Worte?
Mit dem Mentoring Programm vom Landesbüro nrw nahmen wir uns Zeit, uns der Stadt anzunähern, begleitet von den Stadtforscher:innen Moritz Ahlert Anna-Lena Wenzel und Anna Steigemann.
Wir reflektierten über unsere bisherige künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit der Stadt und entwickelten neue Tools, um unseren Blick zu schärfen und neue Möglichkeit zu entwickeln, der Stadt zu begegnen.
The aim of the urban lab was for the ensemble to engage in research-based work with urban researchers in order to jointly reflect on urban transformation issues (sustainability, migration, mobility, globalisation, digitalisation, translocal urban-rural contexts, demographics and social cohesion), sharpen concepts and adopt new methods (e.g. mapping as a form of socio-spatial analysis and interventionist practices).
In two three-day experimental labs, global and local perspectives were brought together in order to discursively and artistically penetrate the concepts and practices relevant to TheatreFragile at a local level. At the centre of this open working process is a concept of transformation that examines performative interventions and their political, ecological, social and economic framework conditions. From this, new forms of action will be developed that will be translated into artistic/performative formats in public space.
For more detailed information, you can download the project report here.
Team
Team TheatreFragile - Luzie Ackers, Marianne Cornil and Lilli Döscher
About the mentors: Dr Anna Steigemann and Dr Moritz Ahlert are both postdocs/research associates in the International Urbanism and Design, Habitat Unit at the Institute of Architecture at TU Berlin. Dr Anna Steinmann was a research assistant at TU Dortmund University for many years. Anna Steigemann's research topics are Critical Urban Studies, urban transformation and sustainability research, inclusion/exclusion and segregation research, community and neighbourhood studies, migration and in particular refugee research, new qualitative research methods at the interface of social science and spatial-architectural methods.
Moritz Ahlert's research focuses on urban interventions, digitalisation, participation and new artistic-scientific, situational and spatial methods (especially mapping). Both have lectured, published and exhibited internationally.
