WHAT
Stadtdenken acts as an agent of urban observation and intervention. We operate as a strategic research platform, investigating the dynamics and patterns of urban habitation. STADTDENKEN focuses on the local urban conditions, by drawing attention on marginal or private practices, like improvisation or illegality, as active ingredients of urban culture.
In our projects we concentrate on formal and aesthetic elements and details, which are often understood as manifestation of private practices and (many times unintended) disruptions. One of our project, for example, is a research into privately altered balcony colors, where we examine how residents often repaint their balconies to manifest their individual color preferences. Our projects range from public space interventions, art installations, urban research projects into different typologies of residential and public buildings. STADTDENKEN aims to establish an extended design practice, where research and concrete action plays an equally important role. |
WHY
The city is a mirror of human subjectivity. It is a site of regulation (design) but also site of complexity and contradiction. Disruption is conflict, but also a source of creativity – and the basic motor of change (understood as the basic condition of Life).
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WHO
Andrea Schneemeier is a visual artist, who developed her interest about the dynamics of the public space and the urban environment throughout many of her art projects. Oftentimes she puts her focus on the stories been told, either of imaginary or real life experiences. She collected fears in several cities, for example, as part of an ongoing project, and also has an interest in how the built environment is perceived and experienced (she also collects wall texts and graffiti) .
Fiona Belousz studies design and visual communication at the UDK Berlin. She just completed several semesters at the film and video department, and planning to extend her studies at spatial design. She too, has an interest in the city, in the dynamics of the urban environment. She likes buildings, their formal qualities, and also likes to study how people alter their built environment according to their personal needs. She also likes to collect abstract patterns of building facades, and developed her own design manufacture where she designs and creates everyday objects based on the abstract patterns she found on buildings. With this project she explores the affective potential of connecting to ones environment with small details and elements applied through everyday objects and their own emotional capacities. |
WHERE
In Berlin, and in the past in Budapest, where both of us born. Currently we live in Berlin, which is the main focus of our recent and upcoming projects. Our Atelier is in Kreuzberg.
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