As we travel through the city’s built reality, we are constantly surrounded by unrealised construction plans, lost artistic concepts and visions of a different way of living together. For the 75th&nbsp;anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele, Japanese artist <a href="${link:{uuid:{ff7ee7b7-ae00-4b46-b02b-62e821742e30},repository:{artists},provider:{jcr},path:{/bfs-mediathek/T/akira-takayama}}}">Akira Takayama</a> invites you to six guided tours on the Berlin Ringbahn, offering encounters with these ghosts of alternative futures. The unrealised projects stem from the archives of the Berliner Festspiele and other Berlin cultural institutions, as well as from architects and artists. Takayama transposes them into the present and asks us which visions we want to realise in the future.

Over four weekends, 27&nbsp;stops along the Ringbahn will thus become sites where forgotten artistic visions of possible futures are evoked by experienced city guides. The audience is invited to imagine a different city – a ‘New Berlin’ once again – and will have the chance to get involved themselves at the end: from 28 August, for a period of three months, people can vote on the Berliner Festspiele website for the project that Berlin needs most. &nbsp; &nbsp;What If Berlin consists of six guided tours around the Berlin Ringbahn. Each tour has its own main theme and presents visitors with ideas for five unrealised projects that are transposed into the future. &nbsp;27&nbsp;experienced tour guides will accompany What If Berlin on the Ringbahn. Each of them will present one of the six differently themed tours. &nbsp;The guided tours will be conducted in German and English.<a href="${link:{uuid:{f2fcc67f-2e7d-4ec0-b158-90f6bffad4e4},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/what-if-berlin/die-touren}}}">Overview of the tours</a>

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For the 75th anniversary, Japanese artist Akira Takayama invites the audience of the Berliner Festspiele on four weekends to guided tours of the 27 S-Bahn stations on the Ring, which he proposes to developing by realising a site-specific artistic project at each one.

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Over the course of four weekends, What If Berlin has made 27&nbsp;forgotten visions of the future for the capital accessible along the Ringbahn. Which ideas inspire you the most? Which projects does Berlin need in the future, and which one do you believe should be realised first?Until 30 September, you can cast up to three votes and help decide which of the featured projects are most relevant for today. Whether it is urban development, cultural participation, public space, or mobility; every vote keeps the conversation about Berlin’s future alive.&nbsp;

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What if Berlin projected the dreams of its citizens into the sky?

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What if Berlin hosted a European Youth Centre underneath the roof of U2?

House of Young Talents

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What if Berlin became an educational city?

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What if Berlin created a system of urban citizenship for which you can register at Ringbahn kiosks?

I Am Berliner

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What if Berlin renamed Tempelhof station?

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What if Berlin rebuilt a lost archive?

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What if Berlin opened a ham radio station for silenced voices?

Radio Glasnost

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What if Berlin perforated more and more walls?

The Wall

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What if Berlin were to set up a secret cultural network?

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What if Berlin used the Ringbahn for staging its human-and non-human history?

A History of Berlin

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What if Berlin reopened all 532 ideas for the Monument for Freedom and Unity?

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What if Berlin created a spiral meditation path on Teufelsberg?

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What if Berlin were to digitally bring the history of its eastern part back to life in Ernst-Th&auml;lmann-Park?

Gasometer / GDR Technological Museum

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What if Berlin were to build over the AVUS with organic architecture?

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What if Berlin turned its city highway into a place of memory culture?

Overwritten. A Memorial for Europe’s Murdered Jews

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What if Berlin started a Ringbahn walking tour?

A Walk in Paradise

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What if Siemensbahn was used as a central infrastructure for a new district?

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What if Ringbahn became 27 theatres?

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What if Berlin were to establish a shipping route to the Black Sea?

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What if Berlin used its S-Bahn as a school for hip-hop?

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What if Berlin decided collectively about the future of the image gallery of Palast der Republik?