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Since 2008 we are constantly going through one crisis to another – financial crisis, European Union crisis, refugee crisis, climate crisis, and, starting in 2020, corona crisis. While the state of crisis seems to have become the new normality each time the state of exception raises also a wave solidarity and care emerges, disappearing nevertheless in the next critical situation.

To explore solidarity in its various forms—human values, behaviors, protocols, and negotiations—three tools were developed to accompany and structure the three phases of the project.

01 analysis I mobile sketching board: Spending time on site, the focus lay on observing the interactions between people, architecture, and nature within the public spaces. This initial phase opened up discussions around the Recht auf Stadt (Right to the City), the banalization of public infrastructure, and the social norms that shape and regulate everyday urban life.

02 care I mobile workshop. Following the initial phase of embodied observation, the next step involved taking a more active role in the space. With a mobile crafting tool the directly engagement with the site began by addressing issues that had emerged during the previous days—repairing a bench, creating a designated motorcycle parking space, cleaning up, etc.pp. These interventions prompted reflections on responsibility, protocols of care, and the influence of social and cultural norms. Questions arose: Who has the right to inhabit these spaces? Is care tied to feelings of shame?

03 action I mobile cart. In the final phase, attention turned inward: the focus shifted to observing our own behavior within the site. The mobile cart was used to explore and embody actions not typically performed in these public spaces. Designed for transport, the tool could be transformed into a dining table and a projection screen. The performative engagement on site raised questions of negotiation, justification, and presence in public space—becoming the foundation for the short movie livingrommless city a narrative speculation on the future of such urban environments in Berlin in the year 2070.