with Mirja Busch

Meeting Point

Accessibility:
- The meeting point is accessible via Moritzplatz U-bahn (U8) or bus stop Moritzplatz (M29). Please note this U-bahn station does not have step-free access.
- Length of route: ca. 1,5 km
- There are stops on the route that require pre-planning for wheelchair access. Kindly share in your registration if you require access so that we can support this.
- Accessible bathrooms are available at the meeting point via Modulor.
- Rest points available along the way.
- Contact us with your access needs: cruisingcurators@gmail.com

Please register via anmeldung@ngbk.de.

Puddles emerge wherever humans leave their traces; they are part of the city. Mirja Busch has conceived Puddle Watching as an artistic walk that frames puddles newly and makes selected Berlin puddles visible, visitable and tangible – even in their dry state. From the Double Core Puddle to the Majestic Red Shield Puddle, the different species and their specific behavior are discussed on-site. Although puddles are a fleeting phenomenon, they do not appear by chance. The walk explores the preferences, needs, and logics of puddles and asks why they emerge, which places they inhabit, and how they relate to climate change⁠.

Participants are introduced to puddle research and terminology, and engage in discussions around themes such as materiality, urban practices, weather, and climate change. The walk offers a new perspective on this weather phenomenon in interplay with the city.

Mirja Busch is a visual artist. For over ten years, she has been working with puddles, experimenting with various forms of archiving them. Whether as a photographic collection, in liquid form, through ethnographic observations, or via language – she brings the often-overlooked phenomenon of the „puddle“ into focus, opening up new perspectives.

Part of PATH 1: SPACES AS THRESHOLDS (on crossovers and commons)
With contributions by Saverio Cantoni & Noah Gokul & Lo Moran & Iz Paehr, hand breast heart kollektiv, Mirja Busch, Harun Morrison, House’ it going? (Laura Margarete Bertelt & Uli Kneisl)

Where does a threshold begin, and what does it divide? Bridges, borders, passageways – cities are full of in-between places where people come and go, meet and move apart, where some things are easy to see and others remain hidden. Some thresholds invite and include, others reinforce exclusion. How do we find common ground within sites of multitudes?

This Path is guided by the belief that urban spaces should be understood as public resources and communal goods that are accessible to all members of society, human and non-human. The contributions explore aspects of invisibility and accessibility in a fractured world (Saverio Cantoni & Noah Gokul & Lo Moran & Iz Paehr); climate shifts and puddle-watching as new forms of attention (Mirja Busch); the role of waterways and changing landscapes (Harun Morrison); memory culture and erasure through a mythological lens (hand breast heart kollektiv); and the evolving architecture threatening common land (House’ it going?). Together, they trace how bodies move through thresholds shaped by environmental fragility, layered histories, and urban transformation.