Spatial Strategies (weißensee kunsthochschule berlin)
Spielraum
26.6.–4.7.
- Game
- Installation
- Performance
The word “Spielraum” evokes both a site for play and a margin of possibility – a space between rule and its trespassing. By inhabiting that ambiguity, this project approaches the playground as a spatial apparatus through which organized freedom and belonging are contested.
Conceived by students of the MA Raumstrategien at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, “Spielraum” unfolds between HAU, M40, and the surrounding neighborhood of Mehringplatz in Kreuzberg, a site shaped by the promises of urban improvement and the pressures of displacement.
A collective, modular structure – a kind of entity or soft playbox on wheels – seeks to rewire public space as a shared habitat. Operating as a parasitic vessel, it blurs institutional boundaries and invites unscripted encounters. Through games, activated by objects, performances, sound and publishing practices, it opens space for experimentation, spontaneity, and a reinscription of who gets to play and how.
Play emerges as a rehearsal of freedom: a collective practice that tests limits and reclaims the right to appear, gather, and take up space otherwise.
This project is realized in the framework of the SoSe 2026 seminars “Carrying the City Otherwise” by Prof. Pauline Doutreluingne and “Elsewhere in Berlin: Architecture as Storyteller” by Tonderai Koschke within the MA Raumstrategien, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
Beitragende / Contributors:
Fadi Aljabour
Alina-Aljosha Anufrienko
Walla Capelobo
Zéna Chite
Beo Da Silva
Bruno De Marco
Marie Dewey
Sumona Dhakal
Ana Júlia Fortes
Ana Gabriela García
Claudia H
Daniele Paris
Dré Philippens
Anne Nascimento
MN Reyna
Claudia Redka
Léna Serdjebi
Julia Siebeky
Yumo Cheng
Dates
Current
Credits
Part of “Berlin bleibt #5”, a festival by HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
