Workshop
YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal

Urban Culture and Good Neighbourhoods

Berlin Conversations on Mental Health

How can neighborhoods enable good social togetherness in the city? Visitors, representatives of Kreuzberg initiatives and Berlin researchers will discuss questions of mental health in an urban, post-pandemic context.

A room with a reading bench and a bookcase

YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Resonance Room, installation view, Gropius Bau (2022)

Photo: Laura Fiorio

  • German

Past Dates

The atrium will become a meeting place for research, the public and the neighbourhood. The results of the discussion will be integrated into the subsequent panel Claims for a Neighbourhood Policy.

The event takes place in cooperation with the EU project  ART*IS (Art and Research on Transformations of Individuals and Societies) and  Exploring and Designing Urban Density. Neurourbanism as a Novel Approach in Global Mental Health of the Berlin University Alliance.

Moderation:
Diana Mammana, Gropius Bau
Dr. Margareta von Oswald, Curatorial Research Fellow Mindscapes, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Guests:
Prof. Dr. Mazda Adli, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Felix Bentlin, research associate, Fachgruppe Städtebau und Siedlungswesen, Technische Universität Berlin
Mary Buteyn, Willkommensgemeinde in der St.-Lukas-Kirche / Berliner Stadtmission
Dr. Joerg Fingerhut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Veit Hannemann, Nachbarschaftshaus
Lea Hartung, Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin
Dr. Sarah Hegenbart, TUM / University of Oxford
Ulrike Koch, tam interkulturelles Familienzentrum
Maryna Markova, Yekmal e. V.
Željko Ristič, Outreach Mobile Jugendarbeit Berlin
Mandu dos Santos Pinto
Dr. Laura Scholaske, DeZIM
Remzi Uyguner, Türkischer Bund Berlin-Brandenburg

Urban Culture and Good Neighbourhoods is part of the Resonance Room's programme Berliner Gespräche über mentale Gesundheit. The Resonance Room is part of the group exhibition YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal and collects local experiences and voices on mental health in Berlin.