Michelle Teran / Ubermatic

public intervention, 2016

Related projects: Dignity / Dignidad and the Obra Social Manual.

The Reclaiming Workshop is an exchange of models and strategies on the relations between places, materials and performative actions that are produced in the context of reclaiming.

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The workshop was initially developed for the Neighborhood Academy program of 2016, which focused on forms of collective learning. Located in the Prinzessinnengarten – an urban garden located around Moritzplatz, Kreuzberg – the Neighborhood Academy is a self-organized open platform for urban and rural knowledge sharing, cultural practice and activism. “Die Laube,” a three-story experimental ‘treehouse’ is the headquarters for the academy, and which provides a space for self-organized, community-oriented and future-oriented learning. The Reclaiming Workshop took place with the participation of various grassroots initiatives and affinity groups operating with Berlin, connected by the fight for the right to the city, and strategies for reclaiming. We officially launched the event by hanging protest banners used by each of the participating groups on the façade of “Die Laube,” thereby designating it as a space for collective learning.

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