Mapping Tempelhofer Feld’s Material and Spatial Histories
2024-Ongoing
Tempelhofer Feld sits at the intersection of its multifaceted past, present, and future. How can its material, spatial, and residual histories materialize into textures and traces? This workshop invites participants to explore and experiment with accessible biocomposites to create a living archive and a collective imprint of the site. Drawing on a counter-mapping approach—a collaborative, sensitive, critical, and participatory cartography that challenges human and more-than-human relations—the activity proposes accessible ways to engage with the site's tangible and intangible dimensions using biomaterials. As an open system, Tempelhofer Feld can be explored through the verticality of its milieu—air, water, and soil—as well as the horizontality of its surfaces, where gardens, airport infrastructure, animals, plants, construction sites, community, sheltering, and leisure areas intertwine. The workshop promotes an inclusive and speculative dialogue around these porosities.
Latent Accumulation Series
In collaboration with: Léa Perraudin, Iva Rešetar.
With the support of: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Allmende-Kontor Garden, and Archiv Flughafen Tempelhof
Tempelhofer Feld sits at the intersection of its multifaceted past, present, and future. How can its material, spatial, and residual histories materialize into textures and traces? This workshop invites participants to explore and experiment with accessible biocomposites to create a living archive and a collective imprint of the site. Drawing on a counter-mapping approach—a collaborative, sensitive, critical, and participatory cartography that challenges human and more-than-human relations—the activity proposes accessible ways to engage with the site's tangible and intangible dimensions using biomaterials. As an open system, Tempelhofer Feld can be explored through the verticality of its milieu—air, water, and soil—as well as the horizontality of its surfaces, where gardens, airport infrastructure, animals, plants, construction sites, community, sheltering, and leisure areas intertwine. The workshop promotes an inclusive and speculative dialogue around these porosities.
Latent Accumulation Series
In collaboration with: Léa Perraudin, Iva Rešetar.
With the support of: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Allmende-Kontor Garden, and Archiv Flughafen Tempelhof
Above: Residual imprint process using alginate biocomposites. Below: Participants’ results include flora, rubble, residue, feathers, hair, and more.
