Location: Place Internationale, Maxie-Wander-Straße 79, 12619 Berlin

Artists:

Exhibition with Juan Camilo Alfonso, Maxie-Wander-Straße Community Accommodation, Schleipfuhl Elementary School, Eva Hertzsch & Adam Page, Alice Salomon University, Margarete Kiss, Victor Klemperer College, Jasper Krause & Hendrik Steuernagel, ~pes & Conny Kahl, Caspar David Friedrich School, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart School, Konrad Wachsmann School, Wuhletal Photo Friends, and the School of the Future Working Group (Architects for Future, Fridays for Future Ma-He, Kontextschule UDK, Marille School, and many more).

nGbK working group „station urbaner kulturen“:

Jochen Becker, Eva Hertzsch, Margarete Kiss, Constanze Musterer, Adam Page, Ralf Wedekind with Juan Camilo Alfonso

Since 2014, the nGbK has established the exhibition space „station urbaner kulturen“ (station of urban cultures) in Hellersdorf. In 2020, a second location was added: the green space Place Internationale, which was made available to the nGbK by the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district for interim use. A further temporary exhibition space, the „Classroom of the Future,“ has now been created here in a former trade fair pavilion. There, the exhibition „Laboratory School Berlin“ presents the results of a collaboration with numerous civil society actors, intended to stimulate reflection on a school of the future.

The exhibition design takes up the spatial approach of the „Team House“ of the Berlin School Building Initiative. The niches in the pavilion’s facade serve as retreats and are filled with texts, photos, drawings, videos, and audio recordings. The center of the space remains open as a „forum“ and is available to collaborators. The classroom facade serves as a presentation area for large-scale images.

Inspired by a documentary video work by students of the Alice Salomon University (ASH) about the fashion label „Top Manta,“ founded by migrants in Barcelona, ​​artist Margarete Kiss and students from the Caspar David Friedrich School present the results of their screen-printing workshop on the topic of labor migration. Artist Juan Camilo Alfonso and children from the shared accommodation at Maxie-Wander-Straße 78 present their jointly drawn cartogram „Where can we, should we play?“ The map marks the children’s improvised, sometimes hidden, play areas on the accommodation grounds.

Artists Adam Page & Eva Hertzsch and students Hendrik Steuernagel and Jasper Krause are exhibiting photos and a video from their internship at the Bielefeld Laboratory School, which is considered a best-practice example of a progressive school. Page & Hertzsch are also presenting their short film „The Last Mile. Goods Supply After the Diesel Ban,“ which they shot together with students from the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart School in Hellersdorf and the Victor Klemperer College. In this short film, the students transport a portable shipping container by public transport from a logistics center in Brandenburg to a shopping center in Marzahn. Hendrik Steuernagel and Jasper Krause are also presenting part of their master’s thesis „„Sprung in der Platte. Lernen in der Großwohnsiedlung“ (Leap in the Estate. Learning in the Large-Scale Housing Estate) at the Institute of Architecture at the TU Berlin, using graphics and models. Their study compares the CO2 emissions of a new school building with those of a renovation.

The artist collective ~pes, Conny Kahl from the Nature Conservation Initiative association, and students from the Schleipfuhl elementary school will present initial insights into their subterranean investigations of the green space. For their school project „In die Untergründe lauschen/Listening to the Underground,“ the children will work in small groups to listen to one square meter of the green space over four seasons and create a sound composition by December 2024. Two works are on display on the exterior walls of the pavilion: Page & Hertzsch, Steuernagel and Krause, and a 9th-grade class from the Konrad Wachsmann School will present ideas for a permeable, innovative educational campus on and around the green space with their work „Jeden Freitag Ausflug/Every Friday Excursion.“ Finally, the School of the Future working group will display a graphic summary of the results of three workshops on the question of how a school of the future can carefully adapt to local conditions – structurally, curricularly, ecologically, and socially.

Representatives of the station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf, the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (ASH), and the Boulevard Kastanienallee Neighborhood Council have been working for two years with people from the neighborhood, local schools, representatives of the district and senate administrations, and experts from education, school construction, social affairs, and the environment on the topic of an innovative, inclusive „Education of the Future for Hellersdorf.“ Here, they are testing on a small scale how „Education of the Future“ can adapt to the natural and social environment of the green space. This has created a place for dialogue where school orientations can be explored.