Sperrgutmarkt am Samstag den 05.05
Kommt zum Sperrgutmarktes und bringt eure ungewollten oder kaputten Möbelstücke mit, damit ihr diese dann für andere Schätze tauschen könnt oder wieder zu kleinen Schätzen machen könnt.
Ist der Bezug des Sofas aufgerissen ist? Oder haben die Kinder den Tisch angemalt? Funktioniert die Lampe nicht mehr und fehlt dem Stuhl ein Bein? Oder ist das Stück einfach nur etwas zu langweilig und unpersönlich? Bringt es mit und möbelt es vor Ort und mit professioneller Hilfe und Beratung vom Kulturlabor Trial&Error e.V. wieder auf.
Am Samstag den 05.05 von 12-16h auf dem Spreewaldplatz! Kommt früh genug, sonst verschlingt das BSR Monster die tollsten Schätze.
Dieses Projekt wird von der KiezAktiv Kasse der Gekko Reichenberger finanziert.
Just really nice…
… really. Today we wished we had a video camera, because we were having a beautiful sunny bike ride, picking up a lot of banners we got donated and it just looked freaking nice on the bike!! Never, ever, ever, ever a car again!
We arrived back at Open Design City before the summer rain and managed to find a friend with a camera to capture what was left of the scene to share it with all of the internet… ;)
A big thanks to the Haus der Kulturen der Welt who supplied us with the banners!
It is going to become a lot of pretty things and bags in no-time. We are looking forward to make a cover for the Kiezmobil with our new industrial sewingmachine, and allready next week some kids at the Eduard Mörike Grundschule will make a pfandtasche … If you feel like trying it out yourself, there is an open pfandtasche workshop the 27.05.12 at the Museum for Communication.
.. and yeah, If you wanna build your own D.I.Y. bike, don´t heasitate to pass by the ODC this weekend… There is going to be a great workshop to make a nice bike… More info here. It will looks something like this:
Trash of the Month. Plastic bottle
This time we decided to get closer to a trash, which we touch, smell and taste almost every day, but which is a rather unfamiliar terrain for most of us. The Trash of the Month in April was: the plastic bottle.
After experimenting with the material, Jorge, our in-house chemist introduced everyone to the world of plastic. As it turned out, there is seven different kind of plastics, each with different characteristics, industrial uses and ways to reuse. Lesson learned: if there is one way, try to avoid plastic stuffs.
But our creative audience - with a little guidance of our crew - had many ideas, how to make nice and useful things out of this really problematic material. The results: window gardens, bird feeders, coat-racks, vases, charger holders, boxes, jewelries.
Thanks for every participant, it was a pleasure to have you all here, in ODC. Extra thanks for your trash-proposals to the next event, we hope we will see you all in May again!
Check out this short film about bottled water, that we have also screened at the event:
http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-bottled-water/
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Photos by: Janis Pesiks
Kulturlabor Trial&Error e.V. went to Belgrade, Serbia to make the contemporary art museum Galerija-legat Milice Zorić i Rodoljuba Čolakovića our home and workspace for a week!
We met and worked with beautiful people from Škart who make political posters and social projects, Karkatag who makes kinetic gardens and machines out of old bike parts and Elektrika Pancevo a small gallery with independent publishing.
The days where filled with interesting talks, public talks and learning to work with each other. The event was part of the conference „(Graphic) Designer: Action, author or universal soldier?“.
We also had the opportunity to meet with the Kaktus network from Occupy London, attend lectures from the conference and explain them how and why we work with Kulturlabor Trial&Error.
The trip was made possible through the financial support of the Step Beyond travel grant from the European Cultural Foundation.
TRASH OF THE MONTH >RECYCLINGPAPER<
The Trash of the month in March was one that we like very much and therefore we decided to do it again: Paper. But this time we focussed on the production process and how to do-it-yourself.
The Chemist Jorge Vilar gave a presentation about chemical issues and the impact on the environment that the modern paperproduction has. After we got to know what paper actually is been made up of, we had the chance to just do recyclingpaper ourselves and see the handmade process. Thanks to Juli, we were having the chance to experiment with paper in different shapes, colors, techniques and materials.
Luckily everybody contributed and brought some nice food to share, this way all our needs were fullfilled. Thank you! The only thing left to do is to pick up your lovely papers, which u can find in ODC or write us an email or come to the next Trash of the month event! In any case we are looking forward to hear soon from you!
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Photos by: Tau*mh & Carla Schultef
Last thursday we had the opportunity to enjoy in the Naturkosmetiks workshop, creating homemade lip balm and body butter. Luna explained us detailed how to make this sweet and natural cosmetics, and Jorge made a short introduction about the industrial cosmetics. All this made a great evening sorrounded by nice people, so we expect to repeat really soon!
Thanks to Luna, and to all the participants!
Tau made this nice pictures!
Organic DIY natrual cosmetic workshop!
Feb 28, 2012 – the Café Dritter Raum was turned into a big clothing party. Trial&Error was there with the Kiezmobil, as a mobile freeshop.
It was a joyful get-together where everybody, from babies to older people, were walking around in search of great clothes to swap. A baby walked towards me and gave me a plastic bag with a banana peel inside – even he was taken over by the spirit of swapping!
A sewing corner was set up to let creativity flow, so that nobody would have to go empty-handed (unless they really wanted to!) if they couldn’t find their perfect fit. Some decided to make bags out of clothes, others made pillows - everybody had fun while doing it!
Everybody got their chance to get rid of clothes they no longer wanted and to bring “new” clothes home without having to spend money.
Check out www.richardkiez.com and www.cafe-dritter-raum.de for more upcoming events.
Why shop when you can swap?
Words by Federico Fusco, a lovely trial&error volunteer
Creaction - Exchanging creative solutions for social change
A fun team coordinated by the Kulturlabor Trial & Error, traveled the last 7th of February to the city of Avilés (Spain) with the goal of exchanging creativity ideas for social change with young people from Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Italy and from the local community in Asturias.
The exchange was hosted by the asturian association Ye Too Ponese. For 7 days we dived in the theory and culture of creative activism, we listed concerns and problems we would like to change and we put in practice some actions in the public space to create awareness about them.
We documented many of the actions and the results can be found soon in www.mastazine.net
Open call for participants!
Stream for change - Let’s take action and create our own media!
Kulturlabor Trial&Error is building a local action team in Berlin to do regular actions for the next months. Do you want to express your opinion about the world? Do you think that the media doesn’t represent you and your ideals? We want to create our own media
Join our team for an international project with partners in Greece, Austria, Spain and facilitated by a team in Czech Republic.
We will have a meeting in Berlin the 2nd week of March to discuss what topics we want to work on and what actions can we make to improve awareness.
Contact Tau through email@trial-error.org for more information and joining.
