Down to Earth
Climate Art Discourse unplugged
13 August to 13 September 2020
The summer project “Down to Earth” is both a walk-through exhibition with objects and installations occupying the entire ground floor of the Gropius Bau and the Südplatz to its rear as well as the venue for an unplugged programme that changes every day and includes live art, music, lectures and spontaneous interventions along with expert talks and workshops.
Impressions from “Down to Earth”
From 13 August to 13 September 2020, the climate, art and discourse project “Down to Earth” explored how the agenda of a shift in climate policy affects our own “operating system”. We would like to thank all participating artists, experts, visitors, colleagues, partners and interested followers for an exceptional summer project.

Down to Earth. Entwürfe für eine Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit
Book
“Down to Earth” brings together 14 visions of a culture of sustainability from the arts, from activist contexts and from science and politics that are committed to radical ecological change: away from western thinking that isolates, extracts and exploits elements of life and towards structures that operate holistically and respectfully.
Edited by Thomas Oberender
With texts by Frédérique Aït-Touati, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Bruno Latour, Hermann E. Ott, Tino Sehgal, Joulia Strauss, Andreas Weber and others
€ 14.00
Available in the webshop
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Bauen ist politisch – Zur Idee demokratischen Bauens
Joschka Härdtner
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
Academy for Transformation
Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
Tiny House Workshop: Einfach Bauen
Joschka Härdtner, Kay Andrees, Gudrun Mattke, Mirko Hahn
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
Mein Biotop auf dem Balkon. Naturerlebnis und Ernteglück mitten in der Stadt
Birgit Schattling
Down to Earth
Mein Biotop auf dem Balkon. Naturerlebnis und Ernteglück mitten in der Stadt
Birgit Schattling
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation
Indigenous Forms of Knowledge
Thomas Oberender in conversation with Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
A World in Abeyance: Fanon and Landscapes of Struggle
Steven Corcoran
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Friday, 14 August 2020
Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Tiny House Workshop: Einfach Bauen
Joschka Härdtner, Kay Andrees, Gudrun Mattke, Mirko Hahn
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
Academy for Transformation
Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
Die Stadt ist unser Garten – Offene und ökologische Gärten als Inseln einer zukunftsfähigen Stadt
Karin Schönberger, Marco Clausen
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation
Indigenous Forms of Knowledge
Thomas Oberender in conversation with Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
A Lecture by Dr. Motte
Down to Earth
Doors to the unconscious – open!
The El Juego Community. Combining scientific knowledge and ancestral wisdom
Grischa Dallmer
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Saturday, 15 August 2020
Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Tiny House Workshop: Einfach Bauen
Joschka Härdtner, Kay Andrees, Gudrun Mattke, Mirko Hahn
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
Repair-Café
Jürgen Krauss, Norbert Boenigk, Klaus-Peter Handke, Eric Schulz
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
Our client is the earth: nature and all those who depend on it
Hermann E. Ott
Down to Earth
Practices of Grounding – Transindigenous Assembly
Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Down to Earth
François Chaignaud & Marie-Pierre Brébant: “Felices Radices”
Sunday, 16 August 2020
Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Tiny House Workshop: Einfach Bauen
Joschka Härdtner, Kay Andrees, Gudrun Mattke, Mirko Hahn
Down to Earth
Berlin summt! – Mit den Bienen als Botschafterinnen für mehr Stadtnatur
Cornelis F. Hemmer
Down to Earth