TNOC Festival 2024

The Kiezlabor is a tiny house for the digital and socio-ecological transformation. For eight months a year, our Kiezlabor stays in different neighborhoods, offering a diverse and participatory programme for the local community and administration, consisting of hands-on workshops, meetups and exhibitions. We present our Kiezlabor, the programme and discuss what we can learn for other contexts of regenerative city-making.


Meeting point:
Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/uzngEAnh2hfzXWCTA

At the HTW Campus in Karlshorst: 52.491845, 13.525506
It’s on Römerweg, near Treskowallee

Karlshorst
10318 Lichtenberg, Germany

N.B.: Starting time > 2 p.m. Berlin time (CET)*
What are the berries dreaming about? Walking together in the "Nasse Dreieck", a protected wild green area in Berlin Pankow, our fieldwork explores its dense ecological, sociopolitical and toxic history. Storytelling, mapping and role-playing help us cultivate close encounters with its multispecies life. Opening our senses, we engage curiously and critically with the more-than-urban ecology.
Feral Fieldwork is an applied transdisciplinary exploration of urgent social and ecological issues from an ecofeminist perspective. Initiated by Alice Cannavà, Chiara Garbellotto and Sina Ribak, it explores and tells stories about and with the urban nature of Berlin.

Meeting point:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/G1qdCdtJetveigdi6
Brehmestraße 24, 13187 Berlin, Germany

Time:
2-5 p.m. Berlin time (CET)
* if you see a different timing in the TNOC website or email messages this is due to the time zone settings of your account. You can change those settings at https://tnocfestival2024.sched.com/ in the collapse menu on the right sidebar.

Join us for a dinner & tour at moos| for engaging conversation around our learning and our vision of building a place that inspires and nourishes people.

Meeting point:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/izvbC5r8pzvnBNY18

Moosdorfstraße 7-9, 12435 Berlin, Germany

Explore the previously inaccessible grounds of the former Tegel Airport by bike - the Tegeler Stadtheide!

At special stations such as the old airport gardening with the sheep barns or the western taxiway with the heather vegetation, the Tegeler Stadtheide is examined in detail. You will discover botanical features such as spontaneous vegetation, pioneer plants as well as wild herbs and protected plants. You will also get an overview of the future landscape and nature reserve, its objectives and development processes. You will learn about the urban ecological significance of large undeveloped open spaces and their ecological interrelationships.

You are cordially invited to this exciting nature experience!

Instructions:
Please take , Bus no 109 "Urban Tech Republic", to location.

Meeting point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/9C6PLwJ4E7kBeVrNA

Katja Aßmann, artistic director of Spreepark Art Space, will introduce the programme of Spreepark Art Space and give insights into the process of combining art and planning. On the tour you will learn more about the RE.USE.UM by artist Stefan Shankland – an open-air studio at Spreepark.



The RE.USE.UM is a production site and space for discourse and community at the same time. How do we manage to use fewer new resources, preserve the value of existing materials and create cycles - material as well as social? These questions are discussed and practically tested at RE.USE.UM.

For the future Spreepark, Stefan Shankland will realise with STRATAPARK two landscape sculptures and forty smaller artificial erratic blocks, which consist of mineral waste materials, won from demolition material of the park. As seating and orientation points, the waste materials are given new functions and in this way flow back into a recycling cycle. In addition to the recycling aspect, the focus is on the transformation of the material: a process in which nothing is lost, but rather each element can be charged with new meaning in a different form or put to new use. This process is central to Shankland's work and serves as a starting point for participation and educational formats on topics such as the history of the site, its geological features, or the recycling possibilities of minerals.

The RE.USE.UM as installation is a cooperation between Stefan Shankland and raumlaborberlin. Since 2023, visitors can observe the process of (re)use of mineral waste and the transformation of the material into art on site. Together with archaeologists, geologists and artists, workshops, artistic interventions and discourse formats are offered. Shankland and raumlaborberlin invite visitors to participate in the creation of STRATAPARK and to engage with the associated questions.

Instructions:
The entrance is free but participants on this field-trip will need to pay for public transit.
This session may finish early, as the tour itself only takes 1.5 hours.

Meeting point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/y5ZgeVTpFchhtUc36

Spreepark Art Space
Kiehnwerderallee 2, 12437 Berlin, Germany

This tour will take participants through cemeteries, monuments, and post-cemetery parks in four Berlin neighbourhoods. Over three hours, we will explore the landscape imaginaries of 19th century ‘rural’ cemeteries, the ‘re-wilding’ of urban spaces in the late 20th century, and the rise of ‘green death’ movements across Europe. Particular attention will be paid to the tension between memorialisation and ecology.

The tour will start at the Prinzessinnengarten Jacobi, Hermannstraße 99-105 (Neukölln), and move up through Neukölln and Kreuzberg, before ending at Silent Green Kulturquartier. A portion of the trip will be made by U-Bahn, so it's recomended you get a day ticket. The tour will include about 6 km of walking, so please wear comfy shoes and dress for the weather!

Meeting point:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1MqPhiKVQTQFHRUNA

Hermannstraße 99-105

Fees:
One way metro ticket, plus I hope to build in one or two 'comfort stops' for water, coffee, and ice cream. 

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The field trip will take place at the location Kienbergpark in the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf.

Meeting point: Umweltbildungszentrum (Educational Centre) Kienbergpark, appr. 50 min travel time via train and subway from Tempelhofer Feld. Participants are kindly asked to consider this time in advance to session start at 2 p.m.

Link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ageX1j4CPyUp2Ucd6

Instructions to explain how to get to the field-trip meeting point:

Best access is from the U5 subway station “Kienberg/Garten der Welt”: cross Hellersdorfer Straße and go straight ahead along Gottfried-Funeck-Weg into the park.
Continue via the Wuhlesteg to the terrace by the pond to reach the education centre (approx. 600 m from the train station).

What if all living beings had the same political rights? If power was shared equally among all the creatures cohabiting on Earth? For an overgrown urban forest in Berlin Wedding this utopian prerogative has become the blueprint of interaction. The artists group Club Real is using the freedom of the arts to declare the overgrown forest the territory of Organisms Democracy. Democratic processes are being reenacted - with one big difference - here all living beings from soil bacteria to maple trees have the same political rights. What might this mean? How is it done? Come and find out!

We take you on a field trip into the heart of one of the most densely populated areas of Berlin. The wild overgrown forest between Osloer Street No 107 and No 108 is the location of a real time political experiment involving all species present.

Meeting point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oMjWaFvecZbk68uj9
Osloer Str. 107, 13359 Berlin, Germany

What was created at Rummelsburger Bucht is now blueprint for the entire city: Berlin is to become sponge city. This refers to a city's blue-green infrastructure to store, evaporate, infiltrate or use rainwater. We will explore how nature-based solutions can be designed, combined and what con-tribution they make to climate adaptation, water pollution control, and biodiversity of the urban environment.

The tour will take about 1.5-2 hours. As we will be outside, please remember to wear weatherproof clothing and/or sun protection. There are no public restrooms along the way

Language: German

Meeting point: Hauptstraße 4B. 10317 Berlin (near to S-Bahn Rummelsburg)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kCT6GpQaux34Tv3U7

Cemeteries are usually associated with grief but they are hotspots of urban biodiversity. At night they become dark playgrounds for nocturnal critters such as bats, hedgehogs, foxes and nightingales. With a fireplace reading and guided excursion we will embark into the ambience of the nocturnal life in Berlin’s cemetery and explore together the secret nightlife of one of these sacred places.

Where?: The meeting point is Kolonnenstraße 24-25, at the entrance of 'Zwölf-Apostel Friedhof'.

When?: 9:30pm. Please note that the meeting time has been postponed by 30 minutes to start at dusk.
The event will be in German, in case of the participation of internationals, translation to English is offered (except for the reading).

Meeting point: Kolonnenstraße 24-25, 10829 Berlin, Germany
Google link: https://g.co/kgs/b8hX6VK