How does the life of young people relate to the history of Berlin? How can young people actively participate in the development of the city?
Urbane Künste ERbeLEBEN is a cultural education project that since 2018 invites children and young people to participate artistically in the discourse on public space as creative inhabitants of the city and to get involved in urban development. The project addresses young people as ‘heritage bearers’, i.e. as young people who experience Berlin’s heritage and carry it forward in their own personal way.
In consultation with the art teachers of the participating courses, a number of guest artists and architects design artistic lessons in which the students reflect on their understanding of urban space. How does their everyday perception of urban space differ from institutional perceptions? How does their current life relate to Berlin’s history? What do they as students understand by heritage? What wishes, visions and demands do they have for their city? The aim is to rediscover urban space together with young people, to understand it as a learning opportunity and to playfully transform it into a platform for artistic interventions that bring together the past and the future.
Actively collaborating since 2018, Zuloark has designed the exhibition design of the past editions, adapting different public spaces and art galleries in the Mitte district to artistic installations of different kinds; from audiovisual projections to sound installations, murals, sculptures, textiles…, always following a specific theme that guides each edition.
