DACHHAIN

LOCATION:
Innenstadt, Hamburg, Germany

TEAM:
Alberto Kanin
Ali Haji
Jonathan Parge
Lasse Peters
Lea Mork
Lisa Anhut
Lucas Bartholl
Lucie Paulina Bock
Margaux Flick
Maud van den Beuken
Paul Erber

DATE:
2022

COLLABORATION:
WeField e.V.

INITIATOR: self - initiated

CATEGORIES:
knowledge production, participation, artistic performance, upcycling

GUESTS:
Moritz Ahlert
Antje Stokman
Julia Nordholz
Gran Collectivo Pantitlan
Traum e.V.
Mitra.data
Galerie Oel-Früh
Semiose
El Satanico Cumbion

FUNDED BY:
Hamburger Volksbank
Behörde für Umwelt, Klima, Energie und Agrarwirtschaft, Hamburg

Dachhain is a city forest, consisting of 80 trees, that moved nomadically across unused rooftops and empty squares in the inner-city of Hamburg. We intend to activate the potential for nature in these empty spaces, by creating a caring and symbiotic relationship between human beings and nature. By reviving the inner-city of Hamburg with an exploration of human and non-human encounters, we developed tools for establishing a new sense of cohabitation. How can we acknowledge the entangled life we share on this planet?

In the first phase of the project, mobile boxes were built for the trees in the Katharinenkirchhof courtyard in the city center as part of a building and planting workshop in April. A month later, the trees were turned into a small forest. Following further workshops, the urban forest grew to 80 trees. In the second phase on the roof, events were held to address the human impact on urban nature and demonstrate ways of making the interaction between humans and nature in the ecosystems of our cities visible and tangible. The program included the Rotterdam artist and field researcher Maud van den Beuken in collaboration with Julia Nordholz, the architect and urban researcher Dr. Moritz Ahlert from Berlin and the Mexican food collective Gran Collectivo Pantitlan.

The city needs space for disorder and wilderness. Nature needs a right to the city. Nature and humans require a common agency, respecting their shared habitat.