Demolitions trigger displacement. Since demolitions often happen quietly, without prior notice, it is difficult to form alliances against them. The climate crisis calls for a radical change in the way we deal with the existing building stock. The understanding of seeing every existing resource as a value and treating it with care is missing.

The project "Visitig Abriss" documents perspectives on demolition practices. Visiting means for us an on-site research and to include the perspective of different protagonists involved: neighbors, users, and in this case sex workers, construction workers of the demolition company and the investor who contracts the demolition.

The project fusioned into a performative demonstration against these demolitions in february of 2023; the focus is set on three buildings in Kurfürstenstraße threatened by demolition.

February 25th 2023
Demonstration


We say: Down with Demolition in Berlin! Rebuild instead. Save the buildings that are already here!

Speeches by Bündnis Leerstand Haab-ich-Saath, Architects 4 Future, Initiative Hermannplatz, Kiezpalaver Schöneberg und dem Berliner Mieterverein

February 23th - 27th 2023
SHOP WINDOW EXHIBITION

temporary exhibition exploring the topic of demolition on different levels.

Shown in the shop window of the M&M Backshop in the LSD building, Potsdamer Str. 172, 10783 Berlin. 

Visible 24/7 from outside.