Projects 2021

Learning, Politics and Architecture in the 1960s and 70s

2021, Jan 29 — May 02

Education Shock

Learning, Politics and Architecture in the 1960s and 70s
Exhibition, school project, publication

Education Shock revisits the decades following the “shock” of the “Sputnik crisis” when the sphere of education expanded on a global scale. As the exhibition and its accompanying publication demonstrate, the rethinking and replanning of learning environments – due to demographics, technology, the Cold War and the social movements culminating in 1968 – permanently changed the educational sphere.

2020–2021

Education in Concrete

School projects, guided tours, presentations

In the run-up to the HKW autumn exhibition Education Shock, which examines the global education offensive of the 1960s and ‘70s, Education in Concrete reaches out to eight Berlin schools whose buildings date from this period. What is it like to learn today in yesterday’s educational laboratories? And how can they be co-shaped as future learning environments?

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2021

Schools of Tomorrow 3

Presentation of school projects, talks, workshops and panels with educational experts

Schools are laboratories for the society of tomorrow. But how can they become places where the future is produced? What social actors are needed? And what exactly do students want? Students, artists, educators and academics work together to explore how schools can be co-created.

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Postponed to Fall 2021

Nicholas Bussmann: Kosmoskop

Exhibition, performance

All politics and social practices are a continuation of music by other means. That is one way to describe the basis of artist and musician Nicholas Bussmann’s artistic practice. At HKW, Bussmann invites visitors to participate in his multi-layered experiments in societal composition, ritual and polyphony.

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2021, Sep 30 — 2022, Jan 04

Archive of Refuge

Online archive, installation, conference, workshops

What forms of remembrance are needed in today’s societies shaped by immigration? This oral history project concerns itself with the memories of people migrating to Germany as an integral part of German post-war history, seeking to protect them from being forgotten and suppressed. 50 filmed interviews with people who immigrated to West and East Germany over the last 70 years are being used to create a commemorative website.

Partners and Team

Winter 2021

Alanis Obomsawin: Lifework

Exhibition

The major survey exhibition and accompanying monograph offer insights into the rich and complex lifework of Abenaki artist Alanis Obomsawin. The project links history to the present in ways that do not efface the continued violence of colonization, while displaying the resilience and self-determination of Indigenous communities in the face of systematic racism and dispossession.

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Past Projects

Postponed to summer 2021

Wassermusik: Mississippi

Festival

The Mississippi as the cradle of American music: Jazz and funk originated in New Orleans, the blues in its delta, rock ’n’ roll in Memphis. In concerts, films and literature, Wassermusik 2021 will explore the importance of the river for the history of music und current music cultures.

Projects 2021

Education Shock

Education in Concrete

Schools of Tomorrow 3

Nicholas Bussmann: Kosmoskop

Archive of Refuge

Alanis Obomsawin: Lifework

Past Projects

Wassermusik: Mississippi

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