Playable Infrastructures: Sound, Space, and the Mobile Playground 

This seminar builds on a project developed in the previous semester and moves toward its realization within the context of Berlin Bleibt #5, taking place at the end of June 2026. 

Over the course of 2.5 months, a mobile vessel and a series of performative formats—games, sound situations, and encounters—are developed, tested, and situated within the area around Mehringplatz and Mehringdamm. Rather than approaching the city as a fixed environment, the seminar understands it as a field of relations shaped by migration, housing conditions, infrastructures, and everyday negotiations of presence and access. 

The project does not aim to represent these conditions, but to engage them through situated action. The vessel, developed collectively by students, functions as a mobile and shared structure that carries sound, hosts interactions, and moves through different sites, activating temporary situations. Alongside it, a set of games and performative formats emerges that …

Erster Termin

07.04.2026

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Library room, Concordia (3rd floor, Raumstrategien) and public space around Mehringplatz and Macherei and HAU Berlin