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Reconstructing the change. A case study of a neighborhood in Tehran

ein Gespräch mit Mahshid Balauzadeh, moderiert von Agnieszka Kilian
Sprache /Language/ Englisch + geflüsterte Übersetzung

19. Oktober, um 18.30

Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Beusselstraße 44, 10553 Berlin
Eintritt frei

For my sister, your sister, our sisters. (…) For air pollution. For Waliasr avenue, and its dying trees. For the innocent forbidden dogs. For all the houses that have collapsed. For missing normal life. 
(protest song „Baraye“ by Shervin Haijpur)
Während des Gesprächs wird die iranische Architektin Mahshid Balauzadeh ihre Forschungen zu einer auf die Einwohner ausgerichteten Stadtentwicklung des Teheraner Stadtteils «Imamzadeh Yahya» vorstellen. Diese Fallstudie wird als Ausgangspunkt dienen, den sozialen Wandel im heutigen Teheran besser nachvollziehen zu können, denn eine unausgewogene und rasante Stadtentwicklung führt zu einem ungleichen Zugang zu öffentlichen Ressourcen und Dienstleistungen. Mit diesem sozialpolitischen Ansatz werden die sozialen Ungleichheiten im heutigen Teheran und Bottom-Down-Aspekte der Stadtplanung, aber auch die generelle Frage nach der Wiederbelebung historisch wertvoller Orte besprochen.
Diese kritische Stadtanalyse wird weiter als Grundlage dienen, um mögliche alternative Strategien zu diskutieren, auch in Bezug auf die aktuelle Situation: das Recht auf Stadt, die Rolle von semi-privaten Räumen in Protesten und die Initiativen von Einwohnern.

Mahshid Balazadeh ist eine Forscherin im Bereich der Stadtplanung sowie der sozialen Aspekte der Architektur, urbaner Transformation und der Bottom-Down-Prozesse der Stadtgestaltung. Mahshid studierte Architektur an der Azad University West Tehran Branch (BA) und an der TU Berlin (Master). Ihre Masterarbeit konzentrierte sich auf eine einwohnerorientierte Stadtentwicklung in Teheran. Während ihres Masterstudiums arbeitete sie für Gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner sowohl in Großprojekten – Compound-Komplexen – als auch in Kleinprojekten in Berlin. Sie ist Mitglied der Initiative Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit.
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During the talk, Iranian architect Mahshid Balauzadeh will present her research on resident-oriented urban development in the neighborhood of Imamzadeh Yahya in Tehran. This case study will serve as a starting point for a better understanding of the social change taking place in Teheran, where imbalanced and rapid urban development can lead to unequal access to public resources and services. From this sociopolitical angle we will discuss the social inequalities and bottom-down aspects of urban planning in today’s Teheran, as well as the more general question of an urgent need to rethink the processes of revival of historically valuable places.
This critical analysis of the city will further a basis to discuss a toolbox of strategies, also regarding the current political situation: reclaiming the right to the city, the role semi-private spaces play in protests, and civic initiatives.

Mahshid Balazadeh is a researcher interested in the social aspects of architecture, urban transformation, and the bottom-down innovative solutions and processes in this field. Mahshid graduated from Azad University West Tehran Branch (BA) and the Berlin Institute of Technology (Master). Her master’s thesis focused on a case study of local resident-oriented urban development in Tehran. During her master’s studies, she worked for the architecture firm Gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, in both large scale, compound-complexes, as well as small scale projects here in Berlin. She is a member of the Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit community.

fantastic feminist futures
Sat 17. September at 4pm
with Improvisation Group / Maddi Fuente Ubani, Cristina Leoni-Osion, Biljiana Pais, Lena Pozdnyakova, Cristina Viegas
Address: Strandbad Tegelsee /Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung
Schwarzer Weg 95, 13505 Berlin
Hosted by: Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit and Moabit Mountain College

fantastic feminist futures invite the Improvisation Group which was initiated at Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit by dancer and choreographer Maddi Fuente Ubani. The sessions are an invitation to find one’s own movement through free investigation by using images, but also sound or different qualities of movement.

„The research starts alone (in solo) and allows you to create awareness of the space and composition in real time. We work in small groups and all together afterwards, as one breath.“
Maddi Fuente Ubani

During the event we will get inside in the group practice: starting from the group warm-up, the investigation of group´s energy, game-alike exercises, to the movement proposal, inspired also by the nature of the place. At the end the group will share in the form of both performer and audience with the rest. For those who are interested in joining the group activity, no previous dance experience is necessary, just the desire to share and search in oneself. Afterwards, we will enjoy a cochlear (akelarre), reflect upon our experience, asking questions, and eating together.
Participation is free of charge. No registration is required.
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fantastic feminist futures invite artists who relate to intersectional feminist perspectives to introduce their artistic practices. We are interested in bringing to light the processes, the small changes rather than the spectacular leaps, the knowledge of what often remains in the shadows. This close reading of practices happens in the very particular place of Strandbad Tegelsee/Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung: on the one hand remote, in the woods on the lake Tegel, and at once in the middle of the city of Berlin. This gives us the trigger to embrace artistic practices outside the traditional context of the white cube while connecting and reconnecting to the environment. The presentations will be intertwined with the joint preparation of food, walks, or readings, engaging different future orientations.
fantastic feminist futures is started by Nadira Husain, Agnieszka Kilian and Marina Naprushkina.
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Biljiana Pais is vocalist and composer based in Berlin , DJ battle contest winner in Berghain Cantine, She co-produced Popol Vuh Beyond album, with songs of the cult German band Popol Vuh. She is performing live with maschine jam controller , keyboard and she sings and modifies her voice with looper and effects.

Lena Pozdnyakova is a sculptor and visual artist based in Berlin. She is an alumna of SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, Sheffield University in the UK, and DIA Hochschule Anhalt in Germany. In her artistic research, she explores complex dynamics between cultures and spaces, objects and processes through sound, sculpting, visual art, and performance, as part of the2vv. Sh is recently writing her Ph.D. dissertation in Art History at Freie University in Berlin.

Cristina Leoni-Osion (they/she) is a white, femme, Mediterranean descendant, lover of the sea, and avid home gardener, born on the ancestral lands of the Powhatan and Monican people, also known as Richmond, Virginia, USA. They are currently practicing as a dance artist, community facilitator, and full-spectrum doula based in Berlin, Germany.

Maddi Fuente Ubani is a freelance contemporary performer and teacher from the Basque Country. She works with the collective 123.o and the choreographers Nelli Ahlroth, Ana Kavalis and Alexander Carrillo. She has also participated in a variety of projects, including the piece M.O.S.T by Chaim Gebber Open Scene, the 4th season of „Babylon Berlin“ and with the collective „tanz den Widerstand“. Maddi teaches improvisation / composition based on contemporary dance at Neue Nachbarschaft /Moabit, Tanzfabrik and Dock 11. The last work she directed was the piece „Tracing Echoes“ at the museum Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), in the past may.

Cristina Viegas, portuguese born, studied languages and literature, lives and works in Berlin. In Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit mainly involved in teaching&learning skills with kids.

 

Lesen am See #3
Literarische Diverse Verlag / Lesebühne Traum

Samstag, 10. September um 16 Uhr

Adresse: Strandbad Tegelsee /Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung
Schwarzer Weg 95, 13505 Berlin
Initiiert durch: Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit and Moabit Mountain College

Literarische Diverse ist ein unabhängiger Verlag aus Berlin, der 2019 von Yasemin Altınay gegründet wurde. Als Verlegerin fördert sie mit Magazinen und Büchern Gleichberechtigung in der deutschen Literaturlandschaft. Der Verlag veröffentlicht vorrangig marginalisierte Stimmen; das sind zum Beispiel: Bi_PoC, LGBTQIA* Menschen, rassifizierte, migrantisierte, jüdische, muslimische, Schwarze Personen, (Post-)Migrant*innen, be_hinderte Menschen, FLINTA, Menschen mit Klassismuserfahrung, Menschen mit osteuropäischer Biografie und viele mehr, die in der weißen, cis-geschlechtlich und heteronormativ geprägten Literaturlandschaft zu wenig vertreten sind. Auf der Traum Lesebühne werden drei Autor*innen aus der neuen Magazin Ausgabe #5 lesen: Sofia Ocherednaya, Betül Torlak und Kasia Wojcik. Modertiert wird der Nachmittag von der politischen Bildnerin Elisabeth Okunrobo.

Sofia Ocherednaya (*1997, sie/ihr)) ist in Pensa, Russland geboren und zog Ende der 90-er Jahre mit ihren Eltern nach Deutschland. Sie studiert(e) Slavische Kulturen und Literaturen in Berlin, Sheffield und Cambridge und schließt momentan ihren M.A. an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ab. Neben ihrem Studium ist sie Autorin bei @erklaermirmal, einem postmigrantischen und queeren Bildungsprojekt auf Instagram.

Betül Torlak (sie/er/keine) ist gebürtige*r Berliner*in und hat dieses Jahr Abitur gemacht. Wenn Betül nicht gerade Gedichte schreibt und auf Instagram veröffentlicht, arbeitet Betül bei i-PÄD – intersektionale Pädagogik als Workshoptrainer*in und ist im Berliner Landesvorstand von “Die Urbane. Eine HipHop Partei” aktiv. Schwerpunkte der Arbeit sind unter anderem Diskriminierungskritik an Schule und Schüler*innenrechte.

Kasia Wojcik (she/her) ist eine transdiziplinäre Künstlerin, Kuratorin und Lyrikerin. // Zusammenarbeit mit Staub zu Glitzer, dem Lyrikkollektiv das ad hoc sowie IIPM/Milo Rau. // Gefördert durch das Künstler*innennetzwerk Room To Bloom. // Mit Unterstützung des Goethe-Instituts in Chile und Kolumbien Entwicklung der rihzomatischen Projekte CONSTITUCIÓN NÓMADA und FRAGMENTS OF.

Lesen am See #2
COVEN BERLIN reads the YEAR OF THE BOG
with: Zinzi Buchanan, Inky Lee, Daniela Medina Poch, and Meghna Singh

Sunday 4. September at 6:00 pm
Address: Strandbad Tegelsee /Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung
Schwarzer Weg 95, 13505 Berlin
Hosted by: Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit and Moabit Mountain College

Lesen am See: Reading#1: kelps – archives – connecting bodies of water
Saturday 20. August at 6:00 pm

With „Lesen am See“ we start the reading events dedicated to different voices, approaches to the performed text as a form of knowledge‘s sharing. For the first reading we invited a reading group who focuses on the unique nature of kelps, water bodies, and water itself.

„This session is an invitation to meet at the shore of the lake Tegel to join an interdisciplinary group for a collective reading and listening session. In these hot days of summer, sweating and hiding from the sun, while our riverbeds lay dry and bodies (human and nonhuman alike) are exposed to water scarcity, pollutions, and displacements, we seek out healing knowledges and practices that connect our diverse experiences of living with water as a precious and precarious substance.

Building on our different backgrounds, experiences and projects we dive into texts about bodies of water and bodies in water that will flow together in an attempt to trace hydro–logical cycles, saturations, memories, and water politics followed by a breathing exercise and a discussion open to the public. We invite you to join us in this fluid exploration of wayward waterways, queer algae, and feminist futures.“-Galina Yarmanova, Jahia La Sangoma, Marianna Szczygielska, Marianna Szczygielska, Sybille Neumeyer, Svitlana Shymko.

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In the frame of the cycle „Lesen am See“ we would like to invite diverse reading groups and collectives to share their practices, related to the dialogical nature of text itself as well the community of readers & listeners. This cycle happens in the very particular place of Strandbad Tegelsee: on the one hand remote, in the woods on the Tegel lake, and at once in the middle of the city of Berlin. The presentations will be followed by the discussion. Readings take place on Saturdays in the Strandbad Tegelsee/Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung. Participation is free of charge, registration is not required.

upcoming events:

Lesen am See #2
27. August, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
COVEN Berlin

Lesen am See #3
10. September, 4:00– 8:00 pm
Literarische Diverse — Traum Lesebühne

Address: Strandbad Tegelsee /Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung
Schwarzer Weg 95, 13505 Berlin

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Galina Yarmanova teaches feminist and queer theory. Currently, she is a fellow at Bard College Berlin. Galina works with visual and textual archives and uses decolonial queer feminist approaches in her research and activism.

Jahia La Sangoma (she/her) is an academic, artist, and land-based activist based in Berlin, Germany. Her connection with waters comes from her experiences in transboundary journeys and the healing nature of water. Jahia is an ecofeminist and participant in intersectional justice movements. Her work focuses on the theme that climate justice is social justice, and using degrowth as a method of improving human and non-human nature relationships.

Marianna Szczygielska (she/her) is a feminist researcher of human-animal relations. Her interests include environmental humanities, queer ecologies, and science and technology studies. Currently, Marianna works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and teaches at Bard College Berlin. She is also an Associate Editor of the Humanimalia journal.

Sybille Neumeyer (she/her) is an artist and researcher with focus on environmental issues and relationships between humans and non-humans. Through polyphonic narration, installations, walks, performative lectures and video essays she is examining the intersections of biocultural diversity loss and climate crisis, searching for ecocentric perspectives and multispecies justice.

Svitlana Shymko (she/her) is an independent documentary filmmaker from Ukraine, a graduate of the DocNomads international MA program in documentary film directing. Svitlana is working on developing political, social, and feminist topics in documentary cinema.

Lesen am See is a part of the two-year collaborative project Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances conceived in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Berlin.
Co-funded by European Union and Foundation Between Bridges.

Erde-Workshop / Strandbad Tegelsee / So. 14. August 13:00 – 17:00 Uhr

„Als Musikerin und Sängerin nutze ich meine Stimme, meinen Körper und die Umgebung um Musik zu produzieren.“

Ein Workshop mit der Vokalistin und Komponistin Biljana Pais

Im Workshop wird Koala-Sampling-App verwendet um Wasser, Sand, Bäume, Wind, Müll, Sprache, Teller aufzuzeichnen.
Das aufgenommene Material wird dann modifiziert, gemixt und verändert mit Effekten und Filter wie Delays, Echos, Beat-Repeater, Reverse-Effekte um Klangcollagen und experimentelle Musik entstehen zu lassen.

Erde-Workshops finden sonntags im Strandbad Tegelsee/Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung statt. Die Teilnahme an den Workshops ist kostenlos, Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich. Die Workshops werden von den Mitgliedern des Moabit Mountain College geleitet und konzentrieren sich auf künstlerische Praxis in Verbindung mit Ökologie und Nachhaltigkeit. Das Strandbad Tegelsee dient uns hier als ganz besonderes Labor unter freiem Himmel.

Adresse: Strandbad Tegelsee /Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung
Schwarzer Weg 95, 13505 Berlin

Erde Workshopis is a part of the two-year collaborative project Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances conceived in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Berlin.
Co-funded by European Union and Foundation Between Bridges.

Strandbad-Residency 2022: public talk with Alina Dzeravianka: On women’s crafts, textile, embroidery – working with rural

18:00 public talk with Alina Dzeravianka
15:00 silk printing workshop with Sveta Husakova

Saturday, August 6 at 18:00
Address: Strandbad Tegelsee /Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung
Schwarzer Weg 95, 13505 Berlin

Talk with our researcher in residence Alina Dzeravianka, where she will present her practice working with rural and share her experience with the audience.

During the Strandbad-Residency 2022 Alina Dzeravianka focuses on her research on women’s crafts, textile, and embroidery in the village of Zburazh (Brest region, Belarus). She runs it together with her colleague, artist and designer Svetlana Husakova while participating in the Rural School of Economics, a trans-local project of knowledge-sharing and cultural co-production in rural communities by Myvillages.org.

Alina Dzeravianka and Sveta Husakova will organize a silk printing workshop where they will use the designs and patterns inspired by Zburazh village in Belarus. The visitors could choose a print and have it on the t-shirt or bag (please bring your own plain color item). You are welcome to join workshop from 15:00.

Alina Dzeravianka is a researcher, activist, and cultural worker from Brest, Belarus. She has great expertise in the organization of socially engaged cultural activities, research, and work of NGOs. She worked as a director of Brest Fortress Development Foundation and currently co-leads the research project STATUS: Role of Artists in Changing Society. She is a visiting lecturer at the Cultural Heritage Development of European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania).

Sveta Husakova is an artist and designer from Zburazh, Belarus. She studied textile and surface design and worked many years for different brands and projects, creating  textile prints and embroideries, new materials and surfaces, art objects and more. Now her activities are  about collaborations, sociality, interactivity and ecology in the local context.

Strandbad-Residency is a part of the two-year collaborative project Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances conceived in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Berlin.
Co-funded by European Union and Foundation Between Bridges.

fantastic feminist futures

Sun 31. July at 15:00
with Jelena Fužinato, Bojana Fužinato and Endi Tupja