WELTSTADT

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Next stop – Bangalore! After succesful WELTSTADT exhibitions in Berlin, Prague, Johannesburg, New York, Plovdiv and Riga, WELTSTADT opened in Bangalore on December 3rd!

The exhibition is shown at two different locations in Bangalore – at the local Goethe-Institut (Max Mueller Bhavan) and in a vacant public lot, the Nextbangalore GATISHIL Space at Rhenius Street, Opp. Hockey Club, Shantinagar. The Nextbangalore Gatishil Space is an urban intervention that transforms a vacant plot into an inviting temporary public space, open to all. Nextbangalore is an initiative of MOD Institute engaged in developing future visions for the city through public participation.

From December 2014 to March 2015 Nextbangalore Gatishil, the mobile phase of Nextbangalore, will crowdsource future visions for three specific areas in Bangalore! Nextbangalore Gatishil will provide a temporary studio, a laboratory and a mobile wagon which will be on tour in the three Gatishil areas. Join them with your ideas and visions and be involved in designing proposals for these sites on nextbangalore gatishil.

Jonas Büchel from Weltstadt Riga (free Riga!) and Leona Lynen, Weltstadt Editor, joined the Nextbangalore team in mid-December to jointly realize workshops around the theme of vacant public spaces. Together with the local Goethe-Institut, an evening of mutual exchange between bottom-up urban initiatives from Bangalore was organized where the setting of the Weltstadt exhibition functioned as the backdrop to discuss the question of who creates the city.

Below are impressions of the two exhibition spaces, the workshops and talks that went on in December as well as some of the visitors and participants:

Setting up nextbangalore gatishil © Nextbangalore

Setting up nextbangalore gatishil © Nextbangalore

Setting up nextbangalore gatishil © Nextbangalore

Setting up nextbangalore gatishil © Nextbangalore

The opening night © Nextbangalore


The opening night© Nextbangalore


Daily schedule at the Gatishil © Nextbangalore


The drawing workshop led by Sebastian Loerscher © Nextbangalore


The workshop involved people from the neighborhood © Nextbangalore


Abbas, a boy from the neighboring school © Nextbangalore


The workshop on urban voids © Nextbangalore


Shedding light upon the Weltstadt exhibition © Nextbangalore


The Weltstadt exhibition in the local Goethe-Institut © Goethe-Institut


An evening for and with local urban initiatives © Goethe-Institut