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A Tiergarten dérive
"Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling." - Walter Benjamin awaken, to the spooling thread of a blackbird’s raga gravity loosens and Berlin floats – just a little just off the Ku’damm a corporate glass palace with outdoor aviary squawks and fireworks of green and red, caged and displayed as trophies. did the birds of East and West sing different [...]
Berlin Slowlympics
As some of you already know, on the 4th August 2012 we will be hosting the Berlin Slowlympics. Timed to coincide with the London Olympics (27 July-12 Aug), the games will form a side event to Die Spiele In Berlin's main Olympic screenings (which will run for the entire duration of the games) at the marvellous Tempelhofer Park. While the Slowlympics will pay homage to the ancient games, they will also make a tongue-in-cheek statement about our culture’s obsession with speed. Eschewing [...]
Slow Travel Berlin
What is Slow Travel? In the same way that the Slow Food revolution has created a compelling antithesis to the burgeoning Fast Food business, Slow Travel encourages people to resist “Fast” Travel – the frustratingly frequent habit of speeding through all the best known landmarks of a city in 24 or 48 hours – then leaving again. Slow Travel encourages us to slacken our pace, re-consider our motivations (and itineraries) and embrace a “less is more” instead of a “fast is [...]
