live³ affordable. better. build. Architectural solutions and artistic interventions

The housing market in urban areas is precarious: there is a lack of affordable housing, the share of rent in monthly costs is rising. In Bremen, too, one third of households have to spend 40 % of their income on rent. But how can affordable housing be created? What contribution can architectural and urban planning innovations make? And how do artists look at these questions?
The special exhibition "wohnen³" shows new approaches to affordable, good housing: from participatory planning processes and communal uses, from flexible floor plans and structural extensions. Artistic positions on housing deepen the question of the needs, values and practices of "good living".

Opening

Exhibition opening on Sunday, 5 December at 11.00 am.
Welcome:
Anne Schweisfurth, Hafenmuseum Speicher XI.
Dr. Kathrin Heinz, Mariann Steegmann Institute. Art & Gender
Prof. Dr. Christian von Wissel, Bremen Centre for Building Culture
Introduction: Klaus Dömer MA, architect, co-author of the book Bezahlbar. Good. Living.
Music: MusikAktionsEnsemble KLANK

The participating artists will be present.
The 2G rule and compulsory medical masks apply.

Exhibition

Fifteen international architectural model solutions are presented, including the "Bremer Punkt" and the "Blauhaus" as well as "Im Engenmoor 14", exemplary buildings from Bremen and Bremerhaven. In each case, the architectural and urban planning quality is examined in relation to the construction costs. It becomes clear that "good living" as a triad of high-quality materials, successful design and good infrastructure with simultaneous affordability is not only possible, but is already being successfully implemented.

In addition to the architectural examples, the central exhibition element is artistic positions that deal with fundamental questions of living.

Felix Dreesen and Paul Putzier (Bremen) are building a house out of discarded materials in front of Speicher XI during the exhibition period, making the planning and creation process tangible.

Folke Köbberling (Berlin/Braunschweig) is also concerned with the materiality of building and is setting up two walk-in sample rooms in the exhibition, built from material samples from an architectural office as well as from waste material such as excavated earth containing clay, raw wool and used thermal windows.

Jule Körperich (Bremen) meets the Bremen MusikAktionsEnsemble KLANK. In their joint project
In their joint project Ausziehn (Moving Out), they deal with the ownership of living space. KLANK's musical set-up plays around the film about a move-out from a deserted miniature flat. Film and sound intervene visually and acoustically in the space.

With her installation "Home wasn't built", Daniela Reina Téllez (Bremen) explores the question: What is a home? Architectural plans serve as material to document her living spaces of the last 30 years. She invites the viewer to gain a new understanding of space, architecture and living.

"Enabling all people to have good, affordable housing is a task for society as a whole - and a right guaranteed in Bremen's state constitution! The architecture of our cities can and must be improved to achieve this. This exhibition shows how," says Christian von Wissel, Scientific Director of the Bremen Centre for Building Culture.

Anne Schweisfurth, curator of the Hafenmuseum Speicher XI: "The Hafenmuseum is located on the border between the Überseestadt as a new quarter with enormous construction activity and Walle as a mature workers' inner-city district where the displacement process has long since begun. I would be pleased if the exhibition contributes to seriously exploring the strategies for affordable housing and makes us citizens as well as political and planning actors want to tackle this important task".

"The city as an architectural, social and cultural space is a much contested arena. In this arena, we are constantly negotiating who owns the city and how we live, how we want to live. Housing affects everyone. The artistic works critically examine our ideas of housing and forms of living and thus also broaden the view of the conflictual, which is always part of housing," adds Kathrin Heinz, director of the Mariann Steegmann Institute. Art & Gender and of the research field wohnen+/-ausstellen at the University of Bremen.

The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of events with guided tours, lectures and school class projects.

From December we will be open again Tuesdays to Sundays, from 11 am to 6 pm!

Photo header: Thomas_Kleiner

Photo gallery: Philippe Rualt

In cooperation with:

GEWOBA, STÄWOG Group of Companies, Hafenmuseum Speicher XI, b.zb Bremen Centre for Building Culture, Mariann Steegmann Institute.

CONTACT:
Claudia Seidel
Harbour Museum Speicher XI
Am Speicher XI 1
28217 Bremen
seidel@hafenmuseum-speicherelf.de
Phone: 0421-303 82 79