Build Bridges Not Walls – Silk printing Workshop at S27
1 week workshop within the project Schlesische27 and their trainees as part of the summer program. Free workshop to attend to learn the process of silk printing from the sketch on paper to the final print on 2nd hand clothes.
Photography by Laurenz Bostedt
Fashion For Future – Workshop with Zakk
One Week Apparel Workshop as a statement to society using 2nd hand clothing only and donating all profits.
Thanks so much for the opportunity to give this workshop in summer 2021 with @franzisparkle at @zakk_duesseldorf & @anti_wi. Thanks to all the wonderful people who participated, supported & shopped the collection we made. Thanks to @oneofthemscreenprint for printing & @lovedbefore_theshop for the clothes donations 🦜Photos by @sarah_hfeld & @hivusch // Video by me & @edit.onur // Sponsored by EnergieAgentur NRW, Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Innovation, Digitalisierung und Energie des Landes NRW, Europäische Union & @soziokulturnrw
Photography by Sarah Hollfeld & Hivi Nekshebendi
T-Shirts against hate – Workshop with Friedrich Rückert Gymnasium
Within the course about "hate" conceived by Tim Bersowordt-Walrabe and Dr. Hatice Karacuban-Ilhan from Friedrich-Rückert Gymnasium, I had the opportunity to give a short term class about activism on apparel and clothing – where it comes from and how to do it yourself. The idea was to focus on social topics the teenagers want to bring to the streets by shirts they are wearing: From Female Empowerment, Anti-Racism, Pacifistic Views, Selfcare and Anti-Captalism Perspectives everyone could design and print their idea on 2nd hand clothing. With the help of photographer Ludovic Schuld we shot a small lookbook with all designs made in the 3 days workshop.
Photography by Ludovic Schuld
Be Loud – Democracy Now! – Workshop
I had the opportunity to give a workshop with youngsters and young adults according possibilities and disadvantages of theKommunalwahl in Düsseldorf, Germany. Together as a participating approach we set up a digital and poster campaign, printed protest t-shirts, had discussions with professionals from the field and learned about democratic values and options to shape our surroundings. The workshop was supported by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW, LAG Soziokultur NRW, Zakk Düsseldorf, Caritas Düsseldorf und dem Projekt Düsseldorfer Falken.
"Don't Believe The Hype" – A workshop about consumerism
Together with Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf & Zakk Düsseldorf and the illustrator Max Fiedler we created a workshop about critical consuming for kids in the age from 6 to 18 years. In times of overpriced products and limited editions everywhere we came up with an own (fictional) brand called "Selfness" using all those marketing tools the fashion industry uses to create a buzz around it.
"Don' Believe The Hype" – was a 2 weeks workshop to shape a critical view on social media and consumerism in fashion and lifestyle of young adults. Why do we think: "I need this?" Who is the sender, who the receiver? And how do brands shape our values? After insights from a social scientistic view and analysing recent social media campaigns from life style brands, we thought of trying to create a self made fashion hype. We created a collection, the prints where drawings by the kids; Shot a lookbook, with the kids as models; Photographed the products, motives printed on 2nd hand cloth from the kids wardrobe; Set up a online shop, where everything was sold out from the beginning; Bought followers and likes, to look bigger online; Informed local newspapers, who wrote about it; Made posters and a digital campaign promoting the store opening. At the event we informed everyone attending, that everything they read and heard about was a hoax.
Photography by Simon Liersam & Sarah Hollfeld
We Are One – Apparel for a good cause
Workshop with 10th grade students of Friedrich-Rückert Gymnasium to create an collective artwork and merchandise for their school with the main message "We Are One". All 30 students were able to design their own graphic and message on social and humanitarian topics – all together ended up as one back print for a soli-t-shirt. In the big break everyone from the school could get a shirt printed by the students themselves.Later on the students organised a bring-your-own-t-shirt pop-up event printing those shirts to collect donations for a social initiative according the earthquake happened around Turkey and Syria.
Photography by Anotherwayrico
Workshop Overview
Alongside workshops I lead myself, I have conceived and curated a variety of offers in collaboration with artists and creatives from my network. For different projects, I have developed concepts, identified and invited suitable contributors, and accompanied them throughout the process.
Curation of a one-day poster workshop with artist and creative director Parissa Charghi, as part of developing a participatory art and culture strategy for the Hangar 1 project at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin. Under the theme HANGAR-UTOPIA, participants playfully developed creative design ideas and poster drafts that later became part of an exhibition.
Dancer and organizer Kofie Da Vibe led weekly workshops in Krump, a dance style that originated in the African-American community of South Central Los Angeles. Kofie is the founder of EBS – European Buck Sessions, Europe’s largest international Krump world championship, running for over ten years. Participation in the workshops was free of charge.
In this workshop, young participants learned the basics of working with wood and its processing. Together, they built a modular space designed for multiple uses — as a workshop area, exhibition space, café/kiosk, info stand, and meeting point. Participants were involved in both the visual design and the construction of the new kiosk. The workshop was led by Patrick from Die Fliegerwerkstatt, Berlin.
This workshop introduced children and young people to new media such as virtual reality in a playful and accessible way. Guided by creative technologists Paulina and Jakob, participants explored, drew, and created in virtual space — free of charge. The resulting digital drawings were later showcased in an online exhibition as part of the project.
On the grounds of the Floating University in Berlin, the Hangar 1 team hosted a cooking workshop together with volunteers. A shared dinner afterwards rounded off the experience and fostered community exchange.
In this hands-on workshop, participants were introduced to synthesizers and MPCs — learning how to build their own beats and record soundtracks. Without needing prior knowledge, participants could join in freely and experiment creatively.
Photographer WhatsUpNini guided a group of participants through the entire process — from developing ideas and curating their own photographs to preparing prints and hanging the works for a collective exhibition. The workshop lasted one month and culminated in a public exhibition opening.
Photography by Julius Wiebe
