Deutsch? Berlinisch? Türkisch? Kurdisch? Arabisch? Türkendeutsch? ‘Kanak Sprak’? Ja, alles irgendwie richtig. Aber vor allem: KIEZSPRACHE! Habt Ihr’s gewusst? An der Uni Potsdam gibt es einen ganzen Sonderforschungsbereich zu diesem adoleszenten Multiethnolekt. Ja, so heißt das.
Und was genau ist das? Kurz gesagt: Eine Varietät des Deutschen, beeinflusst von verschiedenen Migrantensprachen, vor allem Türkisch,  sowie von [...]

After the closing of Berlin’s city airport Tempelhof some creative minds come up with a couple of really fly ideas about what to do with the area. One of the best is probably the project called “The Berg” wich more or less seriously suggests to raise a mountain on the spot. Well, thus my yodel [...]

Not current, but still worth to be recalled…

Remember the fantastic Cadbury advert with the drum-playing gorilla or all the beautiful Sony Bravia clips with the Play Doh rabbits, the coloured bouncy balls or the paint fireworks? All these outstanding examples of advertisement were produced by the London-based advertising agency Fallon.
In 2007, Fallon – in colabo [...]

A must-see! American scholar Annie Leonard explains the circle of consumption.
“From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and [...]

…recently at the Barbican Arts Centre London…
“Frequency and Volume is composed of 48 radios, which can potentially all be tuned to different channels simultaneously. [...] On entering the space, participants’ shadows are cast on the wall. Monitored by a video tracking system, each shadow tunes in to a radio frequency, changing channels as it moves [...]