The project Neuköllner Geschäfte unites artists and shop owners and aims to discover what it means to do business in Neukölln. 5 shops will be in focus of 5 artists and art works will be produced within the shops and the shop windows.
“Polish women want light dresses, because they dance a lot at polish weddings”
Along Karl- Marx Street in Berlin Neukölln one can find many shops for bridal wear. The customers are from all over the world: Germans, Arabic’s, Russians, Egypt’s, Chinese, Turks… The shop owners know exactly about their clients ideas for wedding dresses, and adapt their assortment regarding to their desires. Women from the Balkan Countries want to feel „Like a Sissy“, and therefore buy sumptuously dresses with a lot of embroidery. Customers from the arabic countries want to „glitter and shine“, and wear high- closed dresses. While russian clients like to wear short and sexy, and turkish women like feminine and elegant, german women favor simple and moving wedding outfits.
Wedding International shows in a Fashion Performance of bridal wear, and their country- specific characteristics, how different weddings can be, and what role the origin respectively plays.
Wedding International is part of the Project LOCAL HEROES. Funded by LSK Neukölln.
TEK-STIL Project researches existing potentials of Berlin based young and innovative Fashion Designers and Berlin based women with migrant background that are experienced in Fashion Design, and have knowledge in the Fashion Industry generally. The Project develops ideas on how to connect those potentials, and to activate them for the upgrading of the local economical environment, which in this case is Berlin Kreuzberg and Neukölln. In Workshops and cooperations FashionEXPERTS are working together on topics like “Veiling“, “African Winter“, “Origami“, “Urban Safari“ etc. On the development of TEK-STIL products. The objects combine cultural peculiarities, and make the attempt to approximate a common identity through fashion.
funded by the German Cultural Foundation in the Fonds “Work in Future”
Exhibition from 11.01.- 03.03.2008 in the Saalbau Gallery, Berlin- Neukölln
On micro scale, the „Laboratory of Ideas Neukölln“ investigates different city patterns of the northern part of Neukölln (Berlin), tries to understand its different relationships, and uses the existing spatial, social, cultural and economical potentials as a pool of ideas from where Habitat can be newly defined, activated, and designed. Four groups of students work on four different sites on the topic of: „Local identity“, „Habitat“, „Ethnic Economies“, and „Micro- activism“. Based on the analysis, scenarios are choreographed that show discovered possibilities.
The „Laboratory of Ideas Neukölln“ develops in cooperation with Astrid Ley & Studenten of the Habitat Unit of the Technical University of Berlin
The „Hermannplatz“ is a central space occupied by different users. Upon closer examination it is clear, that those do not know about, and are hardly aiming or willing to approach each other. Three days a week the plaza transforms into a market area, which limits the possibilities of usages; homeless people e.g. are displaced. Habitat „Hermannplatz“ collects statements of different user groups regarding spatial arrangements of the market stalls that inhabit the displacement. Using a „working model“ of the plaza, different options of spatial possibilities are visualized that include the different interests and needs of the users for the „Habitat Hermannplatz“.
in cooperation with Astrid Ley & Studenten of the Habitat Unit of the Technical University of Berlin
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