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2025
Towards a Future that is Accessible#performance #disabilityarts
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A 3-day workshop, led by Dramaturge/ Research Associate Luke Pell and Producer/ Artistic Associate Nadja Dias (Choreography, Dance & Disability Arts Team at HZT Berlin) aimed at...2025
Fragments of the Future#finearts #drawing
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Carbon, the basis of life, becomes our artistic focus. In this workshop we will work with charcoal, explore its artistic and sustainable potential and create utopian visions through drawings,...2025
Some Practical City Magic: Physical and Imaginative Practices for a Future City#dance #performance
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The seminar proposes a practical exploration of cities as a physical space for living together using various locations in Berlin as its model. Through bodywork and imaginative practices, participants...2025
Tools for Science Fiction Performance#performance #dance
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We will share tools and methods to unleash utopian potential within the artistic scenarios we are creating. The workshop addresses science-fiction performance practices and related techniques.2024
Bubble, Splash and Drop - Water as an Object of ExplorationThe characteristics of water is the starting point of a performative research practice. We immerse ourselves in the flowing quality of our body movements and explore the sonic properties of water as a material for...
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The City Never SleepsTogether with the participants, we want to explore the urban space and develop our own tools for the artistic realisation of what we perceive.
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Weaving SkinOur skin is the first layer that marks a boundary to our immediate environment. Clothes can be seen as another boundary, as a second skin. In this workshop we will multifacetedly explore the topic of skin from tackling...
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Post-Vandalism GarmentIn this course we search the streets of Berlin for dicarded garments, thrown on the sidewalks and becoming trash the second they hit the floor. We will pick up some pieces, clean and repurpose them in public space...
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(Counter-)mapping through the Ear. Listening Walks, Soundwalks and Audio WalksThe workshop introduces practices of walking and listening for mapping the sonic city. Topics include acoustic ecology, urban sounds, and field recordings, leading to individual artistic projects.
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PlaywritingWho hasn't failed at this one point when they have an idea for a play in their head, the beginning of a drama in the drawer, and the theatre material in their hands? With professional help and input from other participants,...
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The new Berlin Threshold AtlasDuring the workshop we will use a variety of artistic methods and strategies to develop a new edition of the Berlin Threshold Atlas, tracking down, documenting and bringing to life ruptures, transitions and thresholds.
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OVERLAPS - Body and Sound Overlaps in Urban AreasIn urban niches we experience our bodies. How does my body react to space? How does a group of bodies change an urban niche?
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The bodies produce sounds and react to the intrinsic sound of the urban niche. Our bodies...2024
Oral Storytelling - Further StepsOnce we are familiar with oral storytelling and the transmission of inner imagery, it is time to dive deeper into the performative strength of the storyteller. We look in detail at which techniques support us in...
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Artspeak: English as a Foreign Language WorkshopEnglish is the international language of art and can be read and heard in every art context, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to speak. In this workshop, students are invited to improve their language skills...
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Berlin Modular Music InterfacesThe workshop combines artistic-productive and scientific-reflective perspectives on modular synthesizers. During extensive hands-on sessions, individual projects can be developed under guidance. Excursions offer...
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Editing for Film and Video ArtThis workshop examines how filmmakers and video artists can use editing to create and clarify meaning. After watching and discussing clips from a wide range of films, the participants receive quick assignments which...
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Mireficating the Present – Aesthetics & Narratives of PeatlandsMires have been experiencing a wave of attention in recent years. Yet the dark mythologies surrounding them haven’t changed. This workshop explores potential new languages and narratives of a nonbinary landscape...
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BOLLYWOOD - The interface of the Indian collective consciousnessPopular/mainstream films in India have been the vehicle to communicate and comprehend social norms, attitudes and cultural behaviors to the masses. They shape as well as influence the society by playing the important...
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Radiant SignsRadiant Signs is a five day screen printing workshop exploring sign systems, pictograms and visual miscommunication through drawing experiments, paper cuts and modular stencil printing.
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Drawing as a Way of Knowing – InsectsThe workshop offers an intensive study of insects through drawing-based artistic research. You will work in Berlin´s Natural History Museum, at the Microscopy Center of Humboldt
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University and go on a field trip...2024
Writing=DesignWe bridge the borders between creative and applied writing -- and combine them.
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We share methods, tools and techniques. We practice freewriting and professional writing. Participants learn how to condense and transmit...2024
Liminal Berlin: Exploring the Interface of Movement, Writing, and CityscapeWe will explore the liminal spaces of Berlin by traversing the city, conducting movement explorations and detailed observations of the built environment. Participants will read and reflect on the city’s cultural...
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The City-as-Palimpsest: Mixed-Media Techniques of Urban Interface DesignThis course delves into urban spaces as layered texts via field trips, discussions, and mixed-media workshops. Participants are introduced to different practices of interface creation, such as meme-making, critical...
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Visual Ethnography: An Exploration of Urban InterfacesUnlock the art of documenting and presenting diverse social and material relations in Berlin through film. Engage with hands-on filmmaking using minimal equipment. Ideal for creative minds exploring societal phenomena.
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Exploring atopies (placeless): de-generated spaces in BerlinThis workshop explores Atopies, or placeless, abandoned spaces in the urban territory of Berlin. The participants will grow a self-reflective artistic proposal that display the possible interrelations with these...
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Gardens and ExtensionsThis is a course in which we will visit different community gardens within Berlin, and learn about art, ecology and community art practices. Our starting point is the garden I established together with the students...
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Plural Spaces. A Sculptural Matter of TextilityThe familiar and domestic textile surfaces are commonly associated with private interiors and intimate garments. But woven structures and textile ornaments also manifest in public spaces as part of the city's architecture....
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Aesthetic Transformation: Inspiration across Disciplinary Boundaries - Part 1This workshop combines fieldtrips within Berlin with a cross-disciplinary creative practice. A focus lies on idea-generating processes. How does inspiration come about? How do we find ideas? How can we creatively...
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Body as Territory 1In this basic two-days-intensive workshop, in combination with the Talmi-Method®-bodywork and Suzuki-Training, basic concepts of the performing arts such as posture, breathing, standing, walking, sitting and the...
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Biographical-Documentary Working Methods in the Context of ArtThis Workshop takes the participants' narratives as the starting point for an artistic process. The focus is on a personal, practice-oriented research to put the biographical material in a socio-political context...
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all that nothing causing all that thingAfter an introduction of musical composition systems and production techniques we will investigate how these can be reformulated as processes and tools for generative work in a variety of creative fields. no musical...
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Online: EXP: Experiment, Experience, ExploreAs a 4-days- ONLINE-workshop EXP is designed for undergraduate and graduate students of different disciplines who wish to gain knowledge on the human perceptual system through experiments on perception and demonstrations...
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(mis-)translation club"The original is unfaithful to the translation" (Jorge Luis Borges)
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Oral storytelling – An introduction to bilingual co-tellingBilingual co-telling at its best is a jigsaw of imagery, languages, improvisation and a shared narrative line. In this course, we will dive into a variety of techniques employable by two oral storytellers who jointly...
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Body as a Source of ConcentrationIn this workshop, in combination with the Talmi-Method®-bodywork and Suzuki-Training, basic concepts of the performing arts such as posture, breathing, standing, walking, sitting and the quality of movement will...
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Dramatic Interpretation of Music and Theatre – Methods and Application TrainingImmersing into the world of opera through action methods: basic knowledge about acting processes comes from individual experience and leads to the development of methodological competence and one’s own concepts.
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Political Writing — Gaze TrainingWhile journalism and non-fiction work with the actual state of society, poetry creates an idea of the (inner) world. Which perspective has not yet been told? How does one take a perspective? What images do storytellers,...
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Playwriting – From Idea to Scene and StructureWho hasn't failed at this one point when they have an idea for a play in their head, the beginning of a drama in the drawer, and the theatre material in their hands? With professional help and input from other participants,...
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Artspeak: English as a Foreign Language WorkshopEnglish is the international language of art and can be read and heard in every art context, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to speak. In this workshop, students are invited to boost their language skills by...
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Floating Texts: Unlearning To WriteFor many artists writing is a central practice to generate and process ideas or create text-based work. Yet, it's been very little discussed, taught, or highlighted as an artistic practice as such. Writing is often...
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Collaborative PlaygroundsIn this workshop we will focus on collaborative artistic formats and networks. We will experiment playfully with material in and out of public spaces to extend our existing ideas on collective working practices...
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"From B With Love" - Experimental Imagemaking in RisographyPictorial staging of urban spaces is the theme of the workshop. The project consists of explorations in the city of Berlin and their translation into digital graphic images using the printing technique of risography....
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Culture Writing: Textures of Things, Thresholds, and BodiesTogether with the participants, the workshop aims to develop the ability to approach cultural phenomena through writing techniques. In the seminar, we will explore and develop methods such as the development of...
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Visual Ethnography as Activist WorkWould you like to learn more about filmmaking, photography, ethnography, activism, and their intersections? Then this workshop is for you! We will provide you with the theoretical framework and practical skillset...
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Aesthetic Transformation Processes: Inspiration Across Disciplinary BoundariesThis workshop combines field trips within Berlin and cross-disciplinary creative practice. The focus lies on idea-generating processes: how does inspiration come about? How do we find ideas? How can we creatively...
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ONLINE: Seeking for New NoiseThis workshop invites you to explore noise as an artistic disruptor of the musical ordinary and use its usually perceived negative traits in aesthetic and imaginative ways. It will give you an insight into the history...
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ONLINE: Exp. — Questions of Perception in Art and ScienceThis course is designed for graduate and undergraduate students from different fields and is aimed to provide knowledge on perception through experiments on perception and demonstration of different perceptual phenomena....
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Online: Berlin Appeals 2021 – Poster Design WorkshopPosters are a public matter. As life-sized images, they dominate in the public space and affect us with their unavoidable messages. This relationship between the poster and space will be the focus of the workshop....
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Online: Aesthetic Transformations: Inspiration Across Disciplinary BordersHow does inspiration come about? How do we find ideas? How can we create work together having various disciplinary backgrounds and working with different media and techniques?
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In this workshop, we will focus...2021
Drawing in the Nature LabThe graphic preoccupation with nature teaches seeing in the sense of conscious perception. Through eye and hand, drawing helps to gain an embodied understanding of the form. In the play with translation and abstraction,...
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Online: Exp. – Questions of Perception in Art and ScienceExperiment, Experience, Exploration
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This course is designed for undergraduate and graduate students of different fields to gain knowledge on perception through experiences in experiments on perception and demonstrations...2021
Berlin Techno: Software/Hardware ExplorationsHow do aesthetics and technology relate to and influence each other in contemporary music production? We will analyze those aspects based on hardware and software produced in Berlin, the capital of techno. During...
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DIRTThis seminar focuses on the art and theory of dirt. Together, we will develop experimental mindsets and expand our practices through the collective conceptualization of dirt and what makes it possible.
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Textile Surfaces – Threads of Camille 5Textile surfaces surround us in the most diverse contexts and environments and play a decisive role in many artistic disciplines. In architecture, fashion, art, and design, the creation of experimental materials...
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The Kant – Location Based WorkKantstraße, which runs between Breitscheidplatz and Suarezstrasse, is one of the most important axes of the City West. This course is going to research its past and present through its numerous Chinese restaurants,...
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Berlin Appeals 2021 – Poster Design WorkshopPosters are a public matter. As life-sized images, they dominate in the public space and affect us with their unavoidable messages. This relationship between the poster and space will be the focus of the workshop....
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Shifting Perceptions: Discussing the Fashion SystemThis 5-day course addresses the current state of the fashion system and its various players. The participants will discuss how politics, culture, and society influence fashion photography, fashion journalism, fashion...
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Dialogues as Artistic Experimental Systems in the Cultural SciencesThe communication culture of the early 21st century is significantly shaped by the explosive rise of conversational cultures. Traditional formats of soliloquies, dialogues, or polylogues are changing under the influence...
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Design and Deployment of a Solar-Powered Outdoor Teaching DeviceThis workshop is an experiment in an unexplored realm of outdoor online teaching (OOT). During the workshop, the teacher will physically interact with each student group for only one hour a day. At other times,...
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On Caring Coexistences – Invisibilities of CareAn intergenerational artistic workshop by Maternal Fantasies (Maicyra Leão and Magdalena Kallenberger) using performative exercise, photography and creative writing to explore autobiographical and bodily experiences...
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From Lute Songs to Pop Songs: Unboxing a RepertoireThe art of songwriting is an age-old tradition, spanning genres, cultures, and epochs. We tend to classify songs and put them into boxes: certain types of songs should be sung by certain types of voices, accompanied...
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Bad DesignThe idea of ‘good design’ is out of fashion. In 1949, Max Bill toured post-war Europe with his exhibition Die gute Form which showcased examples of modernist design to educate the taste of regular people. Today,...
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Situationist City GameDuring the workshop, the students will play in and with the city, inspired by the playful strategies of the dadaists and situationists. The aim is to develop a sense for urban situations and to (re)discover the...
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100 Years of Visual Music. Explore Color, Shape, Motion, Rhythm and Sound.In 1921, Walter Ruttmann, a trained musician and painter, created his Lichtspiel Opus 1, one of the first non-narrative abstract short-films. It can now be considered one of the first pieces of visual music. This...
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The We That is Not I: Communities as Operative FictionsCommunities and collectives are deeply ambivalent structures. They can come to signify either the restriction and oppression of individuals or a site for emancipatory politics and new forms of existence. If communities...
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Iron Printing in Blue – A Cyanotype WorkshopThis workshop will mainly focus on acquiring practical skills in the cyanotype printing technique. Participants will learn how to produce the cyanotype solution necessary for this method and have the opportunity...
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Performing Questions: Relationships in Times of CrisisThe interview is an offer of conversation, a game of questions and answers, a dialogue that can transform into a polyphonic choir of singularly plural voices. As a form of personal, localised articulation, interviews...
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Seeking for New NoiseThis workshop invites students to explore noise as an artistic disruptor of the musical ordinary and use its usually perceived negative traits in aesthetic and imaginative ways. It will give you an insight into...
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Online: Low Tech Animation WorkshopIn this workshop, we will experiment with several different types of low-tech animation such as stop-motion and successive-drawing animation, as well as early forms of pre-camera animation like flipbooks and zoetropes.
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Mindful Visions* Audio-Visual Journey with hei_projectno detail information available
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Aesthetic Transformations: Inspiration Across Disciplinary Bordersno detail information available
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Online: (Re)Discovering the CityThis four-day intensive workshop looks at the ways in which we can both be inspired by and change our relationship to the city. We will examine artistic strategies such as pyschogeography, situationism, algorithmic...
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Iron Printing in Blue — A Cyanotype WorkshopThis practical course will explore the diversity of the cyanotype process, one of the first photographic techniques. The focus will lie on its application in the participants' artistic work and discussion of cyanotype
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Biographical-Documentary TheatreThis workshop takes the participants' narratives as the starting point for artistic process. We will focus an personal and practice-oriented research to put the biographical material in a socio-political context...
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Online: Wandering Site — Inspiration Across Disciplinary BoundariesThis seminar allows interdisciplinary collaboration through the process of aesthetic transformation. We will start the process from a unique place in the Berlin cityscape and develop individual concepts from there....
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Online: Berlin Techno — Software/Hardware ExplorationsHow do aesthetics and technology relate to and influence each other in contemporary music production? We will analyze those aspects based on the examples of hard- and software produced in Berlin, the capital of...
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Online: Drawing at the Nature LabThe workshop is intended to provide an intensive study of the plant world. The participants will gather detailed knowledge about natural forms and develop their artistry by playing with translation and abstraction.
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Writing Ashram for PHDs and Post-DocsThe Writing Ashram ls a training course for concentrated writing. Academics of all levels retreat from daily routines and responsibillties to the countryside and work on their writing projects. The unique blend...
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Online: The Drama Works — Writing for StageThis comprehensive four-day workshop guides the participants through a series of precisely patterned exercises, which demonstrate the essential elements of the dramatist craft such as structure, conflict development...
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Finding the Stories — A Photography WorkshopThis workshop combines analytical and practical photographic work. We will learn about what constitutes
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a narrative and how to create meaningful Images. In addition to producing photo series, the participants will...2020
Online: Vitality and Structure for the New Work-Tools and ThoughtsWhat do you do if you want to start a business avoiding bossy atmosphere and classical hierarchies? In this workshop, you will learn more about reorganisation possibilities and find the right structure for your...
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Online: Berlin Appeals 2020 – Poster Design WorkshopThis workshop will focus on the poster as a means of free expression in public spaces. We will discuss the important messages that young designers have in 2020 and create posters, expressive in content and form.
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