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An activation of urban space by knowbotiq and a demonstrative walk by coop disco

Meeting point: nGbK, Oranienstraße 25, 10999 Berlin

X Properties invites participants to carry the portable quintych Embrace spatial diversity of the commons together with coopdisco, demonstrating for the vision of a definancialized city in a post-crisis age as a site of cooperation which in the self-determined use of its habitants captures, overgrows, appropriates, rebuilds, includes and communalizes the ruined monuments of financialization. The tour begins at Oranienstraße 25, where the nGbK may only remain until mid-2023, and moves several blocks east to Oranienstraße 6. There, participants will be greeted by Z vier Doppel X: Contact. Jane (Remote) – a real dystopia inserted into urban space by the artist group knowbotiq. At eight further sites in the Luisenstadt neighborhood, the female avatar ENAY speaks of the often invisible techno-political and techno-aesthetic histories of these places. Based on urban researcher Jane Jacobs, the figure is activated in its digital remoteness via smartphone. She warns us not to abandon the social and emphatic qualities of the urban to the visions and models of a neoliberal “predictable city”. ENAY calls for the human and nonhuman, the organic and technological materialities of the city to merge into sensitive bodies.