Rediscovering Berlin
Thursday, 13 September 2012 - Friday, 2 November 2012
Parks & Passages is an investigation of relics, ruins and reconstruction in the capital cities of Berlin and Washington, DC.
This summer, Provisions Library sent an interdisciplinary team of Washington-based artists and researchers to Berlin to study urban transformation in repurposed places such as Spreepark (an abandoned amusement park built by the GDR) and Tempelhof Airport (famous for the Candy Bombers supplying Berlin during the Cold War). They met Berlin’s artists and activists, gaining insight into what makes Berlin one of the most fascinating creative cities in the world. They returned to Washington with a rooms’ worth of ideas and contexts to contribute to the redevelopment vision of Dupont Underground, an abandoned streetcar tunnel beneath DC’s Dupont Circle.
Berlin is rife with abandoned structures which have been continually re-formed by social activation and creative revitalization. The Washington team compared approaches of how historic grounds are turned into new public spaces such as memorials, playgrounds, community gardens, parks, and places for social experiments and art exhibitions.
Parks & Passages initiates a creative dialogue between Washington and Berlin and serves as a point of reference for workshops engaging questions of how Dupont Underground could be a creative catalyst for DC.
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