NOW - Now Our World is a cross-generational and cross-city magazine and web project on the topic of living and home, in which senior citizens and young people from Berlin, Leipzig and Amersfoort (NL) found editorial teams and jointly develop an inclusive alternative to conventional weekly magazines.
Over a period of 6 months, the editorial teams deal in a creative and solidary way with the fundamental question of how we want to and can live. What has changed, could change and should change and how the concept of home can be made useful.
| Format: | journal |
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| Dauer: | ∞ minutes |
This can be about the housing market situation, one's own four walls, isolation or quite fundamentally the right to housing. The artistic approach follows the principle of cultural hacking, which subverts rules and routines of representation and discourse and opens up new readings of the familiar. Through research and their own artistic contributions, standardized glossy surfaces such as those of Schöner Wohnen and Co. are countered with their own realities of life and the accompanying demands of society as a whole. For this the editorship members take part in professional Workshops to ranges such as journalism, photography and creative writing. They conduct interviews with experts and organize workshops for various children's groups, youth groups and senior citizens in order to reflect as many perspectives as possible.
The result of these processes is a print magazine and a website that counter lifestyle blogs and nice-living magazines with reality-based utopias and diverse representations and offer a platform to people who are rarely heard in the debate about housing and participation.
NOW is based on a close collaboration with Marlies Jufferman, in cooperation with the girls' center MÄDEA, jup! - Jugendbeteiligungsportal Berlin, Interkulturanstalten Westend e.V. and with the support of Fridays for Future Leipzig.
NOW Manifesto coming soon...
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FUNDING:
NOW was developed by ongoing project in the year 2021 in coproduction with Jup! Berlin , Ulme 35 - Interkulturanstalten Westend e.V. und MÄDEA and was realized with the funds of Jugend- und Familienstiftung des Landes Berlin, mabb Medienanstalt Berlin Brandenburg, Fonds Soziokultur - Programm Jonge Kunst und Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie und Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen. All content is, insofar not differently indicated, property of ongoing project Theater GbR.
27.11.2021 → Release Party - NOW