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
Sunday, 16 August 2020
Down to Earth
Berlin summt! – Mit den Bienen als Botschafterinnen für mehr Stadtnatur
Cornelis F. Hemmer
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Club culture meets climate activism: Clubtopia – für eine klimafreundliche (Club)Kultur
Konstanze Meyer
Down to Earth
Club culture meets climate activism: Clubtopia – für eine klimafreundliche (Club)Kultur
Konstanze Meyer
Down to Earth
Über meine Zeit mit Don José Arzalias Taguarí
Angelika Selina Braun
Monday, 17 August 2020
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Practices of Grounding – Transindigenous Assembly
Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
Der urbane Meeresdachgarten – maritime Lebensmittelproduktion trotzt dem Klimawandel
Andreas Frädrich
Down to Earth
Der urbane Meeresdachgarten – maritime Lebensmittelproduktion trotzt dem Klimawandel
Andreas Frädrich
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
CO2-Kompensation: Greenwashing oder sinnvoller Beitrag zum Klimaschutz?
Kerstin Burghaus
Down to Earth
CO2-Kompensation: Greenwashing oder sinnvoller Beitrag zum Klimaschutz?
Kerstin Burghaus
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Academy for Transformation
Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
Kleinwindkraftanlagen – selber bauen und betreiben
Immanuel Dorn
Down to Earth
Repair-Café
Jürgen Krauss, Norbert Boenigk, Klaus-Peter Handke, Eric Schulz
Down to Earth
Down to the Earth: über der Erde, auf der Erde, in der Erde
Peter Berz
Down to Earth
Ancient or Human-Made?
Michelle-Marie Letelier
Thursday, 20 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
Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities’ Creative Involvement with the United Nations
Isabell Schrickel
Down to Earth
Die Erhaltung des Waldes und das Schicksal der Menschen
Susanne Winter
Down to Earth
Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities’ Creative Involvement with the United Nations
Isabell Schrickel
Down to Earth
Die Erhaltung des Waldes und das Schicksal der Menschen
Susanne Winter
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Nutzen, was da ist – Wege in eine nachhaltige Wirtschaftsweise
Corinna Vosse
Down to Earth
Nutzen, was da ist – Wege in eine nachhaltige Wirtschaftsweise
Corinna Vosse
Down to Earth
Modern Astrology
Maja Chiara Faber
Down to Earth
Plant medicines and music in spiritual practices of Amazonian tribes
Bartosz Żurowski
Friday, 21 August 2020
Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth
Ensemble Extrakte: “How To Inhabit These Different Temporalities”
Down to Earth
Tiny House Workshop: Einfach Bauen
Joschka Härdtner, Kay Andrees, Gudrun Mattke, Mirko Hahn
Down to Earth
Großräumige Lebensmittelproduktion in urbanen Gebieten: Solidarische Landwirtschaft, Spörgelhof
Diego Maronese
Down to Earth
Großräumige Lebensmittelproduktion in urbanen Gebieten: Solidarische Landwirtschaft, Spörgelhof
Diego Maronese
Down to Earth
Ensemble Extrakte: “How To Inhabit These Different Temporalities”
Down to Earth
How to Get Down to Earth? Indigenous Knowledge, Power, and the Uncanny.
Bernd Brabec de Mori
Down to Earth
Ensemble Extrakte: “How To Inhabit These Different Temporalities”
Down to Earth
Modern Astrology
Maja Chiara Faber
Down to Earth
Mansour Ciss Kanakassy: “Ndeup-Ritual”
Saturday, 22 August 2020
Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth
Ensemble Extrakte: “How To Inhabit These Different Temporalities”
Down to Earth
Tiny House Workshop: Einfach Bauen
Joschka Härdtner, Kay Andrees, Gudrun Mattke, Mirko Hahn
Down to Earth
Repair-Café
Jürgen Krauss, Norbert Boenigk, Klaus-Peter Handke, Eric Schulz
Down to Earth
Academy for Transformation
Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
Transformatives Lernen, Lernen in Bildungslandschaften
Joachim Borner, Tiffany Deyvier, Tim Urbanek
Down to Earth
Ensemble Extrakte: “How To Inhabit These Different Temporalities”
Down to Earth
Nachhaltige Langstreckenreisen
Tino Sehgal, Louise Höjer
Down to Earth