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C E N T E R   F O R   O P T i M i S M

was founded by architect Sam Chermayeff and curator Clara Meister and is joined by writer Antje Stahl, architect Till-Moritz Ganssauge with locksmith and designer Simon Ertl and architect Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge. Over the period of 9 weeks CENTER FOR OPTIMISM transforms the BDA gallery into a place to meet, read and dream. Step by step and on a weekly basis, a new architectural element will be welcomed, used and discussed by the Center’s optimists and associated thinkers, to ultimately realize an envisioned space. You can follow the dreamed up plan into the actual interior, developed and produced by the architecture studios June-14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff and S.T.I.F.F. For more information on previous events please visit: http://blog.bda-berlin.de

# 1   T H E   B R E A K   i N

The first event will mark the break-in into the gallery space. Special guests are a hammer and a soon to be destroyed wall, the chair number one, Derrida, Voltaire and Niklas Maak and all optimists.

# 2   Z O M B i E S   O F   B E R L i N

New architectural elements will be introduced, Ralph Martin will read from his book „Zombies of Berlin“ and Georg Diez will take this all into consideration.

Ralph Martin is a writer, an ex-New Yorker and present Berliner.  He details the modern condition with savage wit and only the mildest dose of self-awareness. His books have heretofore appeared in German. Part amateur sociology, part autobiographical journey, „Zombies of Berlin“ explores Martin’s experience of gentrification in Berlin and New York, the dawning horror that these cities have windows of raw beauty: blink and you might miss it. For more information on his writing please visit: http://ralphmartinwrites.com

# 3   C O N C E P T U A L   i N C L U S i O N

Accept that things are going badly. But there is civility, a concierge, and a center for optimism. Learn from the ruins, start again. For all this and drinks we would like to invite you on.

The contributors, you and our guest Dr. Andreas Fuhr from Evangelical Zwölf-Apostel-Kirchengemeinde, come from a variety of disciplines mirroring the kaleidoscopic thinking in society. Association and sudden inspirations are not bound to a controlled black and white thinking nor our previous understandings of difference. We have no idea what we are doing.

This chapter, a discussion on conceptual inclusion, is starting from a zero point on the beginning again. While climbing up, we enter a thinking satellite. The climb is our tool to literally “lead over” from one state—everyday life’s baggage—to another: producing knowledge and reflecting on it. Our elements are moveable and often shaky, as thinking sometimes is.

# 4   P L E A U R E   i N   R i S K

This chapter, is a discussion on conceptual and physical shakiness. We begin with the idea that everyone needs instability to grow, learn and think.

As you may know we started CENTER FOR OPTIMISM  with a 15meter tall ladder as tool to lead us into new possibilities. The ladder, far too tall to provide an easy climb brought an insecurity to the ground below and an assurance to the space above. It was not meant as a challenge but rather a joy though the two modes are related.

For next Wednesdsay time we’ve invited Julian Richter of Richter Spielgeräte, to talk about why risk is important for kids and by extension all of us. It will be literal discussion of these pleasures while at the same time it is a continuation of our kaleidoscopic guests. And, the Kaleidoscopic possible methods to change our thinking.

The evening was co-hosted by 60pages, the experimental platform for digital journalism: www.60pages.com

 # 5   S U N D O W N E R

We are celebrating the final days of Center For Optimism with a block party. We opened our program outside of BDA at the street and that’s where we are going to put it to rest.   With a book preview of Georg Diez’s “Die letzte Freiheit”, the author in a bathtub reading, with steaks on the grill, drinks at our legendary bar, and Mary Scherpe on the turntables, with you, our neighbors, Mommsenstrasse and the whole world.

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