7.-8. August, 18-20 Uhr (EN)

House of Welcome: A fablab, a public garden and a school of the commons in Dakar, Senegal

Workshop mit Marion Louisgrand Sylla und Kerstin Meyer

Bild: ECOLE DE L’EN-COMMUN / Ker Thiossane

Marion Louisgrand Sylla co-founded the media art centre Keur Thiossane (House of welcome), in Dakar in 2002. Through research, residence, creation and training, it has become a place for social and artistic innovation addressing issues of citizenship, ecology and urban development. Technology and artistic practice are taken as tools for knowledge that can be appropriated by all. A space of sharing, the centre is deeply rooted in the neighbourhood while connecting with international arts, movements and groups. Regularly, events are hosted for a public that is not so used to contemporary art. In 2014, Ker Thiossane initiated a public garden in the neighbourhood, the “Garden of resistance”, and a School of the Commons. The fab lab Defko AK Niep (do it with others) is also based in the public space and links traditional practices and numerical machine.

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Marion Louisgrand Sylla is the director of Kër Thiossane ((House of welcome), a media art centre with an artist-residency programme, based in Dakar (Senegal). Together with Momar François Sylla she founded this cultural and artistic place in 2002 . The aim of Kër Thiossane is the integration of multimedia in artistic practices (music, dance, theatre, and visual arts) and the culture of open access, numeric creation through computer science and communication technologies. Through research, residence, creation and training, Kër Thiossane has become a place for social and artistic innovation addressing issues of citizenship, ecology and urban development. Technology and artistic practice are taken as tools for knowledge that can be appropriated by all. A space of sharing, the centre is deeply rooted in the neighbourhood while connecting with international arts, movements and groups. Regularly, events are hosted for a public that is not so used to contemporary art. In 2014, Ker Thiossane initiated a public garden in the neighbourhood, the “Garden of resistance”, and a School of the Commons. The fab lab Defko AK Niep (do it with others) is also based in the public space and links traditional practices and numerical machine.

Kerstin Meyer is an economist who works internationally to advise on strategy and organisation in developing democratic policies. She also advises businesses in Berlin and Brandenburg on economics for the common good, initiates and participates in artistic projects and publishes the political street theatre texts of artistes debout with Mohammadou Diol and Archive Books in Dakar and Berlin. She has been active in Berlin city politics since the petition and referendum to preserve Tempelhof Field. Together with Elske Rosenfeld and Jörg Franzbecker she published “On the Constitution. Research, Documents 1989–2017” in 2017 as part of the series “Berlin Booklets on the City’s History and Present”. Kerstin Meyer is engaged in the Initiative to secure Prinzessinnengarten Kreuzberg for the next 99 years and, together with Marco Clausen she organized the Fact-Finding Committee on green commons at ZK/U and published „Gemeingut Grün: Ein Dauergartenvertrag für Berlin“ (ZK/U Press 2018).

Das Gesamtprojekt „Licht Luft Scheiße. Perspektiven auf Ökologie und Moderne“ wird realisiert durch: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum der Freien Universität Berlin (BGBM), Martin-Elsaesser-Stiftung, Nachbarschaftsakademie im Prinzessinnengarten Kreuzberg und neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK).

Gefördert im Fonds Bauhaus heute der Kulturstiftung des Bundes „100 jahre bauhaus“ und durch die Lotto Stiftung Berlin.”