FORUM NEUES WETTER

View of the old town wall, into which a modern flood protection system has been integrated
Grimma, 2023

FORUM NEUES WETTER

Site-specific installation and event series (Scaffolding, billboards, temporary café, seating) / 2023

Based on the two floodings of 2002 and 2013, the art installation "Forum Neues Wetter - Über Klima, Boden und Teil habe" (Forum New Weather - About Climate, Soil and Part) addresses questions about a climate-friendly city, local and regional climate policy options and civil society engagement.

The project initiators, consisting of the artists' collective Situation Room and the office for spatial design lfm2, created a platform for events as a site-specific art installation on the wasteland. Representatives of the city of Grimma, the district of Leipzig, scientists and local as well as supraregional actors introduced their work, engagement and research in lectures, talks, workshops and film screenings and invite people to participate. The wasteland in Paul Gerhardt-Strasse, which was created by the floods in 2002, will thus become a place where the change in climate and thus also the increase in extreme weather events will be addressed and green spaces as well as wastelands will be seen as a potential for the future of cities.

Projekt initiators:
Sven Bergelt, Kai-Hendrik Windeler (Situation Room)
Christian Göthner (lfm2)

Project participants:
Falko Haak (Climate protection manager, Leipzig district)
Bernd Siemer (Soil Protection Officer at the State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)
Julius Goerner (Representative of the city of Grimma)
Doris Bormann-Mayer (BaumWege Grimma - Intiative for the preservation, new planting or replanting of trees in Grimma)
Michael Goetze, Barbara Kolditz, Karin Bauer and Robert Stielers (Representatives of the Climate Initiative Taucha)
Bauzirkel –Verein für ökologisches Bauen Leipzig e.V (Association for ecological building Leipzig e.V.)
Lioba (Representative of the protest movement "last generation”)
Marius Busch (Architect and geographer, TU Berlin, lfm2)
Maximilian Hauer (Scientist, publicist and translator)
Bernd Felgentreff (Consultant system technologies in the field of renewable energies)
Walther Zeug (Research Associate at the Department of Bioenergy, UFZ Leipzig)
Prof. Dr. Silke Beck (Professor of Sociology of Science, TU Munich)
Michael Nitschmann (Chair of Sociology of Technology and Science, TU Munich)
Class 10/1 of the St. Augustin Grammar School (Grimma)

Graphicrecording:
Max Baitinger (Illustrator)