The pilot project 'Zwischenräume. Revitalization of Campus and District' in the project 'Campus Transferale - Transfer_Hub' of the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin cordially invites you to the program:
Interspace TRANSIT, Part 2: Flight, Segregation and Resistance. Current and historical stations of people in transit between Barcelona, Berlin, Marseille and Port Bou
Presentation with contributions and with the participation of Salma Alaabed, Mustafa Alborighef, Abdullah Alkhatib, Marija Baksa, Manuel Haist, Jerome Mard, Toni Maurer, Lerato Mkwanazi, Rayan Mussallam Al Masri, Leonie Odelga-Tschernev, Gonca Saglam, Lea Sahli, Jana Sebald, Marc-Alexander Skott, Laura Wagner and Simon Wilz - students of ASH Berlin.
Program
Tuesday, 4.6.2024, 17:00-19:00
Opening (in English and German)
'Widerstände: Standing together'
Panel discussion with Rachel Ravid (professor at Oranim College Haifa, cooperation partner of ASH Berlin and director of Galilee Dreamers), Samuel Schidem (adult educator, museum educator, lecturer and director of Rozana International) Arnon Shaked (ASTA of ASH Berlin) and Rayan Mussallam Al Masri (BIPoC Department, ASTA of ASH) Moderation: Britta Loschke
Thu, 6.6.2024, 5-7 pm
'Outside the city - from Quartier Nord (Marseille) to Hellersdorf (Berlin). Questions for social work as a profession'
Talk and screening on the topic of segregation and exclusion in Marseille and Berlin with Christian Jakob (journalist for taz and author of the book 'Die Bleibenden') and Salma Alaabed (journalist and student at ASH Berlin)
Thu. 13.6.2024, 5-7pm
'The right to freedom of movement: from Afrique-Europe-Interact to Top Manta'
Talk and screenings of 'Top Manta' (Barcelona 2023, 5 minutes, Engl.) by Manuel Haist, Jerome Mard, Lerato Mkwanazi and Leonie Odelga-Tschernev and 'Die vergessenen Migrant:innen' " (Mali, 50 min., French/Bambara with German subtitles) by Djif Djimeli, followed by Q & A with the filmmakers. In cooperation with hörsaalkino ash.
Thu. 27.6.2024, 5-7 pm
Residents' advisory board meeting and finissage
Program period: 05 June - 27 June 2024
Open for visitors: Thu 15:30 - 18:30 and by appointment at station-urbaner-kulturen@ngbk.de
Location: At the pavilion 'Classroom of the Future', green space 'Place Internationale', Maxie-Wander-Straße 79, 12619 Berlin
About the concept
"And the community of European peoples broke up when - and because - it allowed the exclusion and persecution of its weakest member" (Hannah Arendt 1943, We Refugees).
In November 2023, we, students and teachers of the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, with different experiences of borders and boundaries in our lives so far, crossed the border between France and Spain. Our hiking route took us along a former smugglers' trail from the French border town of Banyuls sur Mer across the Pyrenees to the Spanish border town of Port Bou. Many people fled from the Nazi state along this route in 1940: Jews, communists, LGBTIQ, Roma and Sint:izze, deserters and many other people persecuted by the Nazi regime. Those who had managed to leave Germany in time and now had to flee a second time with the occupation of France. Shortly before, in 1939, the Spanish Republicans had fled from General Franco's army via this route in the other direction to France. The route, temporarily named the escape route after the escape helpers Lisa and Hans Fittko, has been signposted as the "Chemin Walter Benjamin" hiking route on the French side and the "Ruta Walter Benjamin" on the Spanish side since 2009. Benjamin, writer and philosopher, was also persecuted by the National Socialists as a Jew, communist and intellectual. Today, people from various countries who are fleeing war, exploitation and a lack of prospects and end up on Europe's external borders try to reach Central or Northern Europe via the same route.
This border crossing is just one of three stops on our study trip as part of the four-semester project seminar "Current protest movements and their media forms of expression" in the Bachelor's degree program in Social Work at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin: Marseille, Port Bou and Barcelona. Protests and movements for a world without borders, against neo-colonial exploitation and climate justice form the content of the seminar. With our study trip, we embarked on a journey together and focused on: Flight, segregation and resistance - current and historical stations of people in transit between Barcelona, Berlin, Marseille and Port Bou.
Curated by Andrea Plöger (ASH professor), Elène Misbach (research assistant at ASH Berlin) and Eva Hertzsch & Adam Page (artists and research assistants at ASH Berlin) as part of the project seminar 'Current protest movements and their media forms of expression: Protests and movements for a world without borders, against neocolonial exploitation and for climate justice'. The seminar was accompanied by Andrea Plöger, Elène Misbach, Viviana Uriona (filmmaker and lecturer at the College of the Marshall Islands, Majuro), Djif Djimeli (filmmaker and actor) and Aya Schamoni (photographer and ASH lecturer).
The presentation and program are part of a cooperation between station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf and the pilot project "Zwischenräume. Revitalization of Campus and District" in the Campus Transferale - Transfer_Hub project of the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin.
