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Architecture & Cultural Studies

Some Practical City Magic: Physical and Imaginative Practices for a Future City

When:

07 July - 11 July 2025

School:

Berlin Summer University of the Arts

Institution:

Berlin University of the Arts

City:

Berlin

Country:

Germany

Language:

English

Credits:

1 EC

Fee:

590 EUR

Interested?
Some Practical City Magic: Physical and Imaginative Practices for a Future City

About

The seminar proposes a practical exploration of cities as a physical space for living together using various locations in Berlin as its model. Through bodywork and imaginative practices, participants explore instructions to take back to their own cities and contexts and forward in their own creative work.

It specifically examines to which extent imaginative, choreographic and somatic practices generate new space that both resists the neoliberal tendencies of urban developments and enables new insights into the urban as a collective space for action. In particular, it is about everyday practical action, about choreographic scores, instructions for action, visualisation and exploration. We will propose invitations that insist on the potential for transformation through our bodies, their movements and perceptions in and for urban space and thus on what is literally in our own hands.

Course leader

Sabine Zahn and Daniel Belasco Rogers

Target group

artists of all diciplines, age: 18+

Course aim

Based on Sabine Zahn and Daniel Belasco Rogers’ long standing artistic practice, both individually and as collaborators, the workshop will explore these issues of being in and transforming the experience of cities. As long-term Berliners and active participants in the city’s urban practice scene, Sabine and Daniel will lead the peripatetic workshop to initiatives across the city. Basing ourselves at the UdK and the Floating University, the Venice Architectural Biennial award-winning rainwater retention basin at Südstern we will venture out across the city, making the workshop an ideal choice for people wanting to encounter Berlin’s vibrant outdoor art scene for the first time or uncover aspects of a city you might already know. Through bodywork and imaginative practices, the workshop will introduce participants to instructions that they can take with them, back to their own cities and contexts and forward in their own creative work.

Fee info

Fee

590 EUR

Interested?

When:

07 July - 11 July 2025

School:

Berlin Summer University of the Arts

Institution:

Berlin University of the Arts

Language:

English

Credits:

1 EC

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