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Re-Act! The Design of (Re-)Active Elements
The third DOMiDLabs exhibition opens its doors!
How did and do people arrive in our society? How are they perceived, treated and seen here? What role do gender, racist attributions, social background and financial circumstances play in this? Or to put it another way: What is a person worth?
People from urban society - together with the curator İdil Efe (Berlin), the exhibition builders from Kollektiv Plus X (Leipzig) and the DOMiDLabs project team - explored these questions in the third laboratory of the DOMiDLabs project. In addition, they jointly considered how a (re-)active permanent exhibition could be designed to address current debates and the latest findings and to offer the public opportunities to add to and comment on the exhibition.
The result of the collaboration is WERT / SCHÄTZEN – Eine Ausstellung über Anerkennung in der Migrationsgesellschaft.
WERT / SCHÄTZEN uses various stations to show how the participants of Lab #03 find individual answers to the intensively discussed questions in different ways and on different levels - and at the same time develop new questions. The exhibition offers space for exchange and invites visitors to react to contributions, share their own perspectives and thus reflect together on appreciation and recognition in the migration society.
Exhibition venue: Halle of the Alte Feuerwache Cologne, Melchiorstraße 3, 50670 Cologne
Duration: 20.01. - 28.02.2024
Opening hours
Wed - Fri: 3 pm to 7 pm
Sat - Sun: 12 pm to 7 pm
Closed Mon and Tue and on carnival Thurs and Sun
Private group tours (max. 20 participants) on request at labs@domid.org
Admission and participation in events free of charge
Program
#1 A rally round the neighbourhood of "Agnesviertel"
If you want to learn something about the neighbourhood of Agnesviertel, Thomas Wolter offers you a two-part unaccompanied rally. The first part is available as a printout in the exhibition space. This part takes about 30 minutes and sheds light on the history of the development of the Agnesviertel. The second part (QR code on the printout) invites you to take a 3-hour walk with puzzles through the entire district. We will look at the traces of the military forts, residential buildings and stories of migrant workers, the traces of Jewish life and the many small features that characterize this neighbourhood.
#2 Saturday, 20.01.24, 16:00 | Guided tour through the exhibition WERT / SCHÄTZEN
Meeting point: Alte Feuerwache Köln / Halle, registration by 18 January 2024 at labs@domid.org (max. 15 participants)
Employees of the DOMiDLabs project will guide you through the exhibition WERT / SCHÄTZEN - An exhibition about recognition in the migration society. Participation in the event is free of charge.
#3 Sunday, 21.01.24, 14:30 | Guided tour through the exhibition WERT / SCHÄTZEN
Meeting point: Alte Feuerwache Köln / Halle, registration by 18 January 2024 at labs@domid.org (max. 15 participants)
Employees of the DOMiDLabs project will guide you through the exhibition WERT / SCHÄTZEN - An exhibition about recognition in the migration society. Participation in the event is free of charge.
#4 Saturday, 27.01.24, 14:30 | Game Workshop "Alien without Extraordinary Ability" // ++Due to the current GDL strike, the workshop with the Berlin collective EAST ALIEN COMPANY cannot take place++
Meeting point: Alte Feuerwache Cologne, registration until 25 January 2024 at labs@domid.org (max. 15 participants)
Alien without Extraordinary Ability is a game-based workshop. The game translates the experiences of migrant workers, the migration process, nationalism and other key issues related to migration policy into a playable experience. The event is in English. Participation is free of charge.
Workshop leader: EAST ALIEN COMPANY
#5 Saturday, 10.02.24, 3:00 pm | Guided tour in the exhibition WERT / SCHÄTZEN
Meeting point: Alte Feuerwache Köln / Halle, please register until 18.01.2024 at labs@domid.org (max. 15 participants)
Staff from of the DOMiDLabs project will guide you through the exhibition WERT / SCHÄTZEN - An exhibition about recognition in the migration society.
Participation in the event is free of charge.
#6 +++Event is cancelled+++Sonntag, 18.02.24, 14:00 Uhr | The value of the worthless – Storytelling Café
Meeting Point: Alte Feuerwache Köln / Halle, please register until 25.01.2024 at labs@domid.org (max. 10 participants)
Some people own objects that seem worthless to others but are invaluable to them. They are objects that tell stories about migration, farewell, community, loss, love, arrival and much more. They bring back memories, longings or nostalgia.
But sometimes it may be that there are no such objects - what does that do to a person? Can new objects also become treasures?
In the exhibition WERT / SCHÄTZEN - Eine Ausstellung über Anerkennung in der Migrationsgesellschaft, Amelia Pavel and Juliane Schneider share their personal objects and the stories behind them with visitors at their station Der Wert des Wertlosen.
Which treasures tell your story? - As part of a storytelling café, you are invited to share your treasures and their stories in a small group. You are welcome to bring along your beloved objects or photos of them. And if you feel like it, you can also make them part of the exhibition.
#7 Saturday, 24.02.24, 4:40 pm | Hallo.Danke.Ja. – Live-Podcast
Meeting point: Alte Feuerwache Köln / Kino, Entry: 4:15 pm, Start: 4:30 pm, please register until 22.02.2024 at labs@domid.org
As part of the exhibition WERT / SCHÄTZEN - Eine Ausstellung über Anerkennung in der Migrationsgesellschaft, clips from Anna Di Biase's podcast Hallo.Danke.Ja. can be heard.
As part of the exhibition program, there will be a live episode of the podcast for the first time - and you are invited!
For this special episode, Anna Di Biase has invited DOMiDLabs employees Sandra Vacca and Azziza B. Malanda. The title of the episode is "There was always a common thread". Together they talk about the connections between biography, profession and social attributions.
About the podcast
Hallo.Danke.Ja. These are the first words you need in Germany when you make a new start. Accordingly, the podcast Hallo.Danke.Ja. offers a platform for the stories behind the people who are making a new start in Germany as nursing staff. As a German teacher in a Cologne hospital network, Anna Di Biase gets to know nursing staff from all over the world. Whether from Eastern Europe, India, Tunisia or Iran, learning a language, working and arriving in a new country is more than just learning vocabulary and grammar.
#8 Wednesday, 28.02.24, 5:00 pm | Guided tour in the exhibition WERT / SCHÄTZEN
Meeting point: Alte Feuerwache Köln / Halle, please register until 27.02.2024 at labs@domid.org (max. 15 participants)
Staff from of the DOMiDLabs project will guide you through the exhibition WERT / SCHÄTZEN - An exhibition about recognition in the migration society.
Participation in the event is free of charge.
Re-Act! The Design of (Re-)Active Elements
The kick-off meeting of Lab #03 took place in June 2023. It was attended by numerous people from urban society who had responded to a public call from DOMiDLabs. Together with İdil Efe (Berlin), Kollektiv Plus X (Leipzig), Sandra Vacca and Azziza B. Malanda (both DOMiDLabs), formed the lab team.
In terms of content, the third lab focussed on the following questions: How did and do people arrive in our society? How are they perceived, treated and seen here? What role do gender, racist attributions, social background and financial circumstances play in this? Or to put it another way: What is a person worth?
In addition to this, we jointly considered how a (re-)active permanent exhibition could be designed to take up current debates and the latest findings and to offer the public opportunities to add to and comment on them.
Lab #03 was organised in various workshops in which the participants contributed personal stories, thoughts and perspectives. These were gradually translated into design elements over the course of the lab process
In the DOMiDLabs: Labs for Participatory Museum Design project, different people come together in four labs. Their common goal is to develop design concepts based on various topics that will help the Documentation Centre and Museum on Migration in Germany (DOMiD) to establish a multifaceted migration museum in Cologne-Kalk. The DOMiDLabs project is being funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation from 2021 to 2024.