Berlin 2070. The city got dense, Berlin changed a lot since 2020. Back then the city was lacking 150 00 flats, so people started acting and built those missing places for themselves. Flats got separated, hallways, staircases, living rooms, all vanished.
The short movie „Livingroomless city“ is a future speculation of Berlin. How are our struggles embodied on a spatial basis and in what sense can uncertain times change our understanding of solidarity.
„Livingroomless city“ introduces a non-technological future. Due to Berlins growing density public spaces no longer function as a background of the city but become an active part of our everyday-life. The future being shown is not wireless. Cables are representing undefined boundaries between domestic and public space and the complex dynamics of a dense city, its interdependencies and connections.

The film is based on our approach to the term „solidarity“ during the summer term 2020. Using various experiments in an urban context, we aimed to find out how solidarity is embodied in public places. As the center for our analysis, we focused on Wilhelmshavenerstraße in Moabit, Berlin. Among other streets in Moabit, here you can find „niches“ between parking lots, separated from the street by bollards and by tree beds. Sometimes you find a bench, a water pump and bikes stands there. In order to build a critical understanding within the term solidarity and public spaces, three tools were developed.
001 Analysis As a first step, we spend a week drawing in the street with the help of a drawing board. The focus was put on the behaviour of people, architecture and nature in relation to this specific public places. Questions about the Recht auf Stadt, the banalization of public infrastructure and the accepted social norms were discussed. 002 Care After taking our bodies in space and spending the first week observing, we took an active role in the next step: With a mobile-workshop we spent one week in the street confronting some of the issues that we became aware of the past days such as reparing a bench, creating a motorcycle parking slot, cleaning up etc. Reflections on responsibility, protocols of care and different social/cultural disciplines were discussed – Can everybody inhabit those places? Is care related to shame? 003 Action Finally, we specifically observed ourselves and our behaviour on site. We spent three days with a Mobile-cart, trying to embrace certain behaviours which are not normally practiced on this places. The Mobile-cart we developed was used for transport, and could be converted into a dining table and a projection screen. Especially questions about negotiation and justification came up and built the base for our narrative speculation on the future of such public places in Berlin 2070.