Graue Laus - Inside Out

Stories of (guest) working and housing in Berlin Kreuzberg

Graue Laus - Inside Out

Stories of (guest) working and housing in Berlin Kreuzberg

“Graue Laus” is a large residential complex; it was originally a new built foreign body in the midst of rundown apartment houses. “Graue Laus” was a symbol for modernist renewal and displacement of low income residents. Today the situation is reversed: in the midst of massive changes in the neighborhood, the building appears to be a relic from another time; it stands unrestored, untouched, unchanged next to renovated, high priced buildings. Today it is the inhabitants of “Graue Laus” who are threatened by displacement.

The project reconstructs the history of “Graue Laus”. Thereby it takes biographies of current and former inhabitants as entry point. The collected narratives will be discussed in their social, urban and planning context. On the basis of the research project, an exhibition will be developed. Following an "archaeological" approach to contemporary urban history it will expose and describe different layers of time.

Project partners: Dina Dorothea Falbe, Niloufar Tajeri

Project period: Since 2020

Project financed by the IKEA Foundation

Media

BBC WORLD SERVICE

ALEXANDRIA SCIENCE MAGAZINE

TV 3 CATALUNYA