What’s it like for you? You and social media.
Become part of our exhibition!
As of mid-August, we’ll be hosting a new exhibition. The topic? Social media, which scientists and artists will tackle together
This is a call for contributions relating to your view of social media
How can you take part?
Email us a photo (max. 5 MB) and a short, typed text (approx. 100 words) on the topic of “What’s it like for you. The social media and you.” Make certain it’s a high-quality photo with a good resolution so that we can potentially print it out.
Email everything along with your name to the following address:
Deadline for submissions: Friday, June 14, 2024
When photographing make you’re your pic will not hurt someone else. We reserve the right to immediately delete such images.
By participating you agree to your photo and text being displayed in the exhibition and also being used in our PR work
You are completely free in your choice of image and how you creatively present it. To kick off, why not ask yourself the following questions:
What are social media like for you?
- What image could best represent your relationship or stance on social media?
How have social media changed your perception of yourself and the world?
- What occurs to you (e.g., at school, on the way home, at home) with regard to social media?
What actual aspects or facets of social media do you think about most?
Address these issues critically and choose or create one photo that captures your thoughts in an image.
The jury may then select your photo and text for display in one of our exhibition rooms. Some of the texts will be read out as part of the accompanying program.
Have fun creating your submission!
We look forward to receiving your email.
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ERFURT CALLING
A project for participation, empowerment, and addiction prevention among young people
July 2023
The Foundation Welt der Versuchungen invited two school classes in the state of Thuringia to redesign two old telephone booths. The goal: little islands of wellbeing. The designers: students from the ninth grade of the Albert Einstein Staatliche Gemeinschaftsschule in Sömmerda and the IGS Erfurt.
In workshops and in collaboration with two artistic mentors – Julia Heinemann from the Bauhaus University in Weimar and Michael Künstler from Erfurt – the students developed design concepts for the conversion. Ideas were discussed. There was some thinking, talking, negotiating, measuring, calculating (limited purchasing budget), sketching, and building. And it quicky became clear that music would play a key role – as part of this generation’s lifeworld, their own identity, and an expression of creativity.
Grade 9b from IGS Erfurt redesigned their telephone booth as a club toilet that from the outside looks like a “confessional” (Beichtstuhl) – both places where gossip and dark secrets are exchanged, where frustrations and joys are shared. TGS Albert Einstein in Sömmerda used graffiti, books, and photos for their “dance party” (Tanzi) and created a feel-good place to hang out, listen to music, read, dance, and reflect.
With an open-air presentation, the finished booths were exhibited for a week (July 6–12, 2023) in downtown Erfurt and made available to the public – as a social mini-space, as a temporary private capsule, and as a place of music and exchange to span the generations. Visitors were able to connect their smartphones to the built-in Bluetooth speakers and listen to their own playlists or those of the students. The old, recycled telephone booth in the public space was thus given a new, cultural use in the public space by the cellphone generation.
“What does ERFURT CALLING have to do with addiction prevention? Various things: three days of thinking, sketching, exchanging ideas, and negotiating, all done in an entirely analog way, to find out what constitutes a feel-good place within just 1 x 1 x 2.20 square meters. The key question: What is good for me? The answer: most of all music, as well as dancing, community, and unleashing your own creative resources. Making music and art oneself is soothing and empowering in all situations in life. Then there’s the attention from the public when the work is exhibited. Being seen, being praised. This brings happiness and joy. All this is empowering and helps prevent addiction,” says Susanne Rockweiler, curator and first chairperson of the Foundation Welt der Versuchungen.
The booths will be on display again in the ON A NIGHT TRIP exhibition from October 20 to December 10, 2023, in the Defensionskaserne barracks on the Petersberg.
