Invisible Citywalk pl. 2

Join another “Invisible citywalk” - a Situationism photowalk through the East Village. The photo walk and mapping exercise will start at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space to explore the secret gems of East Village and touch its activism history. The event is free - but donations to the Museum are welcome.

Please bring your cameras, water bottles, and creativity - we will spend about 1-2 hours walking, learning and placemaking.

Place 2 Little Germany is hidden between the East River shore, 14th Street, and 3rd Ave - Alphabet city , Kleindeutschland, East Side twin of Greenwich village. And the home of a unique phenomenon - the Museum of Reclaimed Urban space. Why won’t we walk down there with a map of industrial Berlin where many first immigrants came here from?

We walk, make photos, explore the area and make marks on the maps - to identify what caught the attention. There are tons of hidden gems in the place including squats, urban gardens, and the artifacts of the Reclaimed space movement - which we will find and explore from another view - to shape a new “psychogeographical contours” of East Village. The map will become a guide for Creative Placemaking💫
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About 1-2hr long field study/ photowalk is a variation of Guy Debord’s “Derive” - an artistic method of a exploring a city through unexpected situations beyond the everyday course.
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In the mid-19th century, the influx of germans - among other Europeans - settled in what’s now known as the East Village . They flew from many cities suffering from industrial era overcrowding, including Berlin. After the 1850s, influx the area was used so intensively that almost turned into slums. In the 1960s, the artists and activists started reclaiming abandoned buildings and lots transforming them into livable spaces and community gardens.
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Thus, we will explore the area with the map of Friedrichshain Kreuzberg - densely populated with the working-class back in the days. And will try to imagine reflections in the cityscape of East Village.
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.Join us next Sunday to see how the map is not the territory.