Kulturlabor Trial&Error (Berlin, Germany)

Kulturlabor Trial & Error is a collective of designers and craftivists, thinkers and doers, artists and project managers - who implement social and cultural projects. By using media, handicraft and art as tools Kulturlabor T&E is active mainly in its local community, to experience, experiment with and exchange knowledge and skills. Kulturlabor T&E works with creative activism, upcycling and development of social networks, using principles of D.I.Y, Open Source Culture and non-formal education. The latest actual projects are: TRASH OF THE MONTH - Every first thursday a month we will check out one specific trash-material very close and give overviewing upcyclingworkshops for this material. And of course we will have delicious Vokü from 8pm on and sometimes music or lectures or movies shown. KIEZMOBIL - In spring and summer 2010 Kulturlabor Trial&Error are building a mobile workshop wagon, with people from the neighborhood for the neighborhood. There will be 4 Upcyclingworkshops from Mai to July to build the wagon. The mobile workshop will be used to make workshops in public space, and will be constructed form 90% trash, sourced from the local environment. For more information check out our Kiezmobil blog. UPCYCLE IT! - series of workshops taking place in Berlin, Germany and Asturias, Spain. Ideas of how to upcycle household waste into useful items has been collected throughout 2010, and are published in a book with manuals in spring 2011. For updates about the project visit www.upcycle.it MAŠTA - Kulturlabor Trial&Error is part of the MAŠTA magazine network, and is involved in the process of making it happen. MAŠTA is a platform to report on innovative ways to address social-political problems and to inspire creative forces for social change. MAŠTA stands for creative freedom to transcend dreams into action in order to aid innovative solutions. We call it creative activism. MAŠTA invites you and everybody to find and report new creative ways to act in society’s public space. MAŠTA means whatever and imagination, and wants to inspire people to accomplish whatever they imagine is possible. Find out more about the project at www.mastazine.net