1/2/8 Spot On Economies #Insights with Chloé More, Flora Fettah and Jeanne Giacobetti

Chloé More, Flora Fettah are working together with Jeanne Giacobetti to address food waste in our society in both practice and theory.

1/2/8 Spot On Economies

With backgrounds in the humanities, social sciences, architecture and technology research, Philipp Frey, Will Stronge, Christoph Schneider and Julian Siravo build a multidisciplinary team that have come together to initiate joint processes of thinking on the concept of innovation from a democratic and local perspective.

1/2/8 Spot On Economies #Insights with Licia Soldavini and Mascha Fehse

Licia Soldavini and Mascha Fehse are urban planners who with the Initiative ConstructLab in Berlin develop inclusive, unifying approaches to the conception, planning and implementation of community building projects. During their residency, they address the question of how to create sustainable ways of organising cultural and activist (care) work in the urban realm.

1/2/8 Spot On Economies #Insights with Mathis Richtmann, Sonia Kuhls, Rosa Hesse and Úlfur Logason

The group is working on the idea of a graphic novel as a way to build a basic understanding of our financial markets and banking systems to people that have not been educated in that field.

1/2/8 Spot On Economies #Insights // Josephine Findeisen, Agnes Bakucz Canário and Verena Brakonier

A group of artists working on a long-term artistic research project on classism and gender that will develop in performative and discursive formats.

1/2/8 Spot On Economies #Insights // Lasse Schlegel and David Schwarzfeld

In their project Platzhalter, Lasse Schlegel and David Schwarzfeld look from the perspective of designers at the numerous advertising spaces in our cities. By renting such spaces, they want to give agency to new ideas for the collaborative reclaiming of public places and accompany this process in the long term with workshops and other forms of exchange.

1/2/8 Urban Frictions // #InProgress mit Playful Commons (PART II)

As part of the research festival "1/2/8 Urban Frictions", Playful Commons - Jennifer Aksu, Gilly Karjevsky and Sebastian Quack - will realise smaller, creative "special uses" on marketplaces, green areas, traffic islands and parking bays in Essen's neighbourhood of Katernberg.

1/2/8 Urban Frictions // #InProgress with Playful Commons

During the research festival, Playful Commons - Jennifer Aksu, Gilly Karjevsky and Sebastian Quack - will realise smaller, creative "special uses" on marketplaces, green areas, traffic islands and parking bays in Essen's neighbourhood of Katernberg.

1/2/8 Urban Frictions // #InProgress with h-artlab

During their 1/2/8 - Urban Frictions residency h-artlab are starting their research process called 'La Zone', which consists into questioning how we appropriate an unknown area.

1/2/8 Urban Frictions // In Progress mit HEFT

HEFT (Ina Römling, Torben Körschkes) untersucht verschiedene Formen von Versammlungs- und Aushandlungsorten in der gebauten Umwelt. In und um PACT entwickeln sie physische Ad-hoc Strukturen aus Holz, Stoff und anderen Materialien und experimentieren mit unterschiedlichen Anordnungen und räumlichen Layouts.

1/2/8 Urban Frictions // #InProgress mit Roberto Santaguida

Roberto Santaguida möchte mit seiner Arbeit das Gefühl von Vorahnung und Erwartung, von dem die Spannung eines Dokumentarfilms abhängt, eliminieren und eine Form schaffen, die Intimität und Unmittelbarkeit begünstigt. Das geplante Projekt wird eine öffentliche gemeinsame Dokumentationsinstallation mit einer Gruppe von Menschen mit psychischen Problemen in Essen sein.

Atelier Spezial: ›1/2/8 – Demanding Responses‹

Wie lassen sich Wissen und Handeln verknüpfen, neue Formen der Kollaboration finden?

Im Dezember haben wir die Forschungsresidenz ›1/2/8 – Demanding Responses‹ mit unserem beliebten Atelier-Format verbunden und euch einen Abend lang Talks & Performances erkunden lassen.

Mit Work Hard! Play Hard! working group, Nicholas Bussmann, Michael Guggenheim, André Alves, Hannah Hurtzig, Pedro Rocha & Wandering Dunes, Danae Theodoridou, Matthias Planitzer, FORMATIONS und HOOD!