Berlin Shantytown

"a sanctioned squatter village allowing people to afford a space to live downtown" – Lucas Gray

Car Parks

"guerilla gardening where overnight car parking spaces are covered with trees, flowers, grass, park benches and more"

- Lucas Gray

Tempelhof Metropolis 

"each investor would make their building exactly according to fritz langs metropolis"

- Mark Reeder

Visitor Postcards

"give a blank postcard to every airport traveler, asking them to paint/draw/mount a photo on each side depicting their love of Berlin"

- Kristian Kofoed

Dogwalk Project

“an alternative fashion show crossed with a boxing match.”

- Sonia Noya

Eat Berlin

"(Tables at participating) restaurants seat eight people and you never know who else will be there!"

- Bea Reese

Save Teufelsberg 

"preserve the former U.S. Army Field Station Berlin on Teufelsberg in Charlottenberg-Wilmersdorf"

- Mark Hooker

Save our Kulturhaus

"would love to contribute, with Weissensee's own 'Save our Kulturhaus!' points of view"

- Wallywoods Berlin

One World Berlin human rights film festival

 "Would like to work as a committed media partner, as a platform for presenting the ideas/initiatives cinematically."

- Natalie Gravenor

Documenting Oderberger Str.

“The photos are a collection of compositions depicting the beauty of the street as it is today. As you may already know, by the end of this summer (2009) the street and sidewalks including all lamps, plants, planter boxes and trees are to be completely removed and replaced. Nothing from the past will remain.”

- David Beecroft

What you see at your daily S or U Bahn Stop?

“It's a work around our visual of the city, that accompanies us every day in life.  I’d like to show what we see at our daily metro stop, whether we are there for business or fun, of course documenting all the stops of the U and S Bahn.  All these pics will be edited into a video for a public projection, for example on a building wall. Another synchronized video shows the city as a map, so any image of the city in the previous video can be geographically localized by a bright point. This work may be interesting from the document point of view, because showing all stops of the S+U Bahn today is an important record of how the city appears nowadays, after 20 years since the fall of the wall.”
- Marco Fracassa

Berlin Wall Ladder

“Sections of the actual Berlin wall placed vertically and horizontally to create a massive ladder. One horizontal segment of the wall will equal one rung in the ladder - it will be the tallest structure in Berlin.  Berlin attracted people from all over the world to its vacant spaces, and transformed them into vital creative communities - now those spaces have been retaken, this time in the form of shopping malls. The “Berlin Wall Ladder” will be a hopeful reminder that there is a way to escape, again.”
- Peter Rudolph

Filming the Berlin Marathon 2009

“have about 10 different cameras (live footage and still frames) filming the route of the Berlin Marathon on September 20^th this year in its various stages from start to finish.”

The Berlin Wall Scarf

“Do you miss the cold War? Stay warm with the Berlin Wall Scarf!!  Keep the “winds of change” out, bundle up, but make sure not to choke yourself. Iconic murals from the Berlin wall scaled down and transformed into a neck scarf - a dark souvenir for a dark time. Feel true constriction and “security” as the NEW souvenir from Berlin.”

- Peter Rudolph

Swimming Pool

“Instead of building the Schloss, Berlin can build a public swimming pool with lots of glass: windows and glass panels, so that the swimmers see the surrounding historical buildings. People can swim day and night: the pool will be open 24 hrs.
The building with the pool with a spectacular 360 degrees view of Berlin can be a showcase of the newest German heating and energy technology and design. It can be surrounded by a garden with Brandenburger plants and flowers and has the potential to become a huge tourist attraction.”

- Bea Reese

Gender Fukk Drag

"sing a few songs in drag and show a few paintings"

- JamesMurphy

Guerilla Gardening 

“proposed an article about the phenomenon”

- Line Madsen Simenstad

The Berg

A Mountain on the airfield of Flughafen Tempelhof  - check it out at www.theberg.de

- Mila Media & Design

Take he Bbuzz

"people take a bus, then walk 15 kilometers along the line where the Wall used to be."

- Bea Reese

TV Satellite Dishes

“I live in wedding. TV satellite dishes are actually verboten, but you wouldn't know it by looking at the side of my building. Sociologists and realtors alike use satellite dishes as an indicator of the value of real estate in a city. I think that a multicultural neighbourhood, signified by a plethora of dishes connecting these new Germans to their old homes, is something to celebrate. The crocheted dish covers would draw attention to the rich culture of brunnenviertiel, you guys can even print the pattern in the November issue.”

- Karina Griffith

Mondo Films

"Using the tradition of Mondo Films and Newsreels as anthropological tools to make us question ourselves over topics like consumerism, religion, meaning of life, fashion, philosophy, art."

- Carlos Rincon

Missing Berlin

(Destroyed) (Reynold Reynolds, 2008, three screen video projection loop transferred from Super 8mm with a duration of 4min.)

“Berlin has always had unique architecture, unfortunately almost all of it
has been destroyed. The tradition continues. This installation shows
buildings that have been destroyed in the last three years.”

- Reynold Reynolds

Berlin – Secret Histories, Alternative Futures

A film series presented by EYZ Media

“For Save Berlin EYZ Media (curators/organizers of film tours for Aktion Mensch’s Gesellschafter.de as well as the local One World Human Rights Film Festival) will present rarely seen documentaries and fiction unearthing little known information about Berlin's past and offering different perspectives for the future. After premiering during Save Berlin, the films will be available for pay per view on realeyz.tv, the Berlin-based, international online film community and source for cinematic statements on contemporary social and cultural issues.”

- EYZ Media

Outdoor Video Installation

“I would love to make an large scale outdoor video installation, possibly in collaboration with Jason Forrest's music. It would be projected for one evening on the side of a historic building. It would be a video loop based on Berlin's decadent past and making reference to many images that you might see (for instance) in the book "Voluptuous Panic". Although most of the images would be suitable for outdoor viewing of course. You might remember from my exhibition, I made a loop of triangle shapes that morphed into each other on the wall of the gallery; this new video would also contain some abstract images (obviously the triangle is a powerful and meaningful symbol), similar to the galerie video. I want the images to reference in a subtle way, how Berlin has always been a center for people with unusual and less mainstream tastes.” – Jen Ray

China Town

“This is my proposal to fight against the sonycenterization of our beloved Berlin.

I've been living in or passing by several big cities around the world, and there is always a place where all the apatrids and others rootless cosmopolitans can find a certain homey feeling, it's the local Chinatown. But Berlin doesn't have a Chinatown. I love the place, I've been moving a lot until I finally settled in Berlin but where can I get the last CD of Vicky Chang, find DVDs of Johnny To never released in Europe, buy green tea with grilled rice, Vietnamese rice cakes, cheap Japanese designer toys, decent incense, Thai ginger for the tomka soup, manwas by the kilo, fresh onigiri, etc. We need to have a Chinatown built in Berlin. And since it wouldn't be a spontaneous Chinatown, we can even make it better, a meta-Chinatown, that would not only come from far in space but also in time. We need a Chinatown from the future! We need what Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell promised us. A place where all the Asian people (and others) would be mixed like in Paris, with a Buddhist temple like in Amsterdam, where also African people would find what they miss like in Accra, where restaurants would sell authentic food and not westernized erzats like in New York, where all the music and the cinema would come in real time like in London... A place with giant holographic dragons, warm rain, manga characters bowing to you on every screen, martian octopus kebabs sold on the streets, virgins’s underwears selling machines, planes or space ship passing just at the top of skyscrapers with bamboo scaffoldings a place that never sleeps with convenience stores where you can have everything you need done - your laundry, paying your taxes, writing love letter on rice paper...I don't have a form yet to present this project, and it's too big to be done by one person alone, so I propose it now with the idea that interested people would join me and that we could work on some ambitious scale... I propose already to make a blog or a wiki to start the process and hope that we can claim the impossible.”

- Bertram Dhellemmes

S.A.V.E

“S.A.V.E. - Strategies and Advices for Voluntary Excentri-city, is a performance/happening we would like to perform within "SAVE Berlin" event. We thought it could be interesting to propose the visitors to take an active part on the reflection about "how to save Berlin?"The performance will take the appearance of a temporary bureau where the visitors will be invited to share their visions of the city and their proposals in order to save Berlin. The main task of this bureau will be to support (intellectually speaking) and to reflect on a strategy to realize the project of the visitor. Then to collect the different testimonies, to keep the track of the several faces and aspects of what we call "Berlin".  We would like to reproduce the atmosphere of the retro investigation bureau: FBI, CIA... A table in a center of an empty room, two interviewers/investigators seating in chairs, facing the witness. At the very end of the room, a concentrated dactylograph is taking the deposition. No more than the sound of voices, breath, and the typewriter-machinegun. All these interviews will be recorded on video, audio and dactylographic mediums. There is a great performative potential in this idea, as well as various and ambitious ways to exhibit and share all the material gathered. First within a DVD or a CD, but we can even imagine a wall of grievances that everybody could consult. If this project successfully completed, it could have a real "historical" value, constitute an invaluable testimony of what, at this time, the artists as well as the most anonymous passer-by dreamed about their city.”

Ze Coeupel

-  Paul-Flavien Enriquez-Sarano

-  Ambra Pittoni