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Community-led investigations of state violence and human rights violations from Berlin. Pursuing accountability from the courtroom to the gallery.

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All of Spore’s exhibitions and participatory spaces are completely free and open to everyone.

They aren’t conceived as static displays, but instead as active gathering grounds for shared reflection and action.

Here is a look at how our spaces unfold this season:

In Relation – The Surly Bonds of Earth (10. Oct – 29. Nov. 2026)

Fractured Lifeworlds: Chapter II – Wind (10. Oct, 2026 – 24. Jan, 2027)

Times in Common (07. Jun 2026 – 06. Jun 2027)

The Spore house is open:
Tuesday to Friday: 3 – 7 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 2 – 7 pm

We’re looking forward to welcoming you!

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Main sessions
Who decides who gets watched, whose name belongs in a database, whose body justifies a check? How do these systems obscure and complicate witnessing, monitoring, evidencing, and responding by design? What does it mean when the right to protest is given just as easily as it is taken away, and how do we defend rights that are meant to protect us?

These questions are the centre of the three main sessions on 10 October.

14:30 - 15:15 · Surveillance by Design (1)
Jair Schalkwijk @controle_alt_delete ,
moderated by Rupsa Nag
 15:30 - 16:15 · Borders by Design (2)
Phoebe Walton @forensis.berlin , Donna @migreatnl , moderated by Srishagon Abraham
 16:30 - 17:15· Persecution by Design (3)
Evalien Stapper @elsclegal

Designing Justice Symposium
  Sat 10 Oct · 14:30–17:30 · BAK Basecamp
Sign up: coloredqollective.org/designing-justice/symposium (link in bio)

As part of 'Building Public Truths'. Programme organized by Nieuwe Instituut, BAK Basecamp and Colored Qollective

All media used in this post belongs to the contributors. Courtesy of Controle Alt Delete, Forensis, and the European Legal Support Center

**no AI was used

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When framing migration stories, we should never underestimate the power of words.
They not only fuel public debate but also influence policy.
And it is always people paying the price for bad policies.

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Programme overview
A symposium on policing, oppression, and (un)learning who designs justice

Main sessions (Auditorium):
Borders, Surveillance and Persecution by Design
Parallel sessions (Library):
Dreaming Abolition and Penpal Writing Workshop

With Jair Schalkwijk @controle_alt_delete , Phoebe Walton @forensis.berlin , Donna @migreatnl , Evalien Stapper @elsclegal , Raja @cacao.utrecht and Sarah @ams_pc_project

Designing Justice Symposium Sat 10 Oct · 14:30–17:30 · BAK Basecamp
Sign up: coloredqollective.org/designing-justice/symposium (link in bio)

As part of 'Building Public Truths'. Programme organized by Nieuwe Instituut, BAK Basecamp and Colored Qollective

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Colonialism, genocide and resource extraction have never been abstract concepts.

They have designs and architectures. Their real-life consequences outlast the people who drew them.

This week, Spore is hosting an extensive program of events which unpack the histories and living legacies of colonial genocide in Namibia:

Thursday 8. October (2 – 6 pm): A workshop led by Marcella Katjijova (a clinical psychologist, and descendant of survivors of Germany’s first genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama peoples in present-day Namibia) and Vilma Duque (a social psychologist who has worked in post-conflict regions for decades with survivors of the genocide under Guatemala’s military dictatorship).

Thursday 8. October (8 – 10 pm): Launch of Eyal Weizman’s new book “Ungrounding: The Architecture of a Genocide”, followed by a discussion between Weizman and scholar Sami Khatib.

Saturday 10. October (9:30 am – 7 pm): A full day of Ovaherero cultural practices, panels and folklore music, marking 122 years of resistance.

Sunday 11. October (5 – 9 pm): The opening of Fractured Lifeworlds’ second season, “Wind”.

Join us this week at the Spore house.

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Images: A photograph captured in early 1906, featuring Cornelius Fredericks (marked with the cross symbol), Gaob (Nama designation for ‘chief’) of the !Aman Nama clan alongside his fighters, shortly after their capture and arrival to the concentration camp. Image source: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Forensic Architecture/Forensis, 2024) | Eyal Weizman, Right Livelihood | Drone photograph of Shark Island seen from northeast. Authorities are planning an expansion of the port, threatening the preservation of Shark Island as a site of contemplation. (Forensic Architecture/Forensis, 2024)

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Gerechtigkeit für Ibrahima Barry! Keine Einzelfälle! ✊🏽

#ibrahimabarry #polizeimord #mülheim #deutschland #stuttgart

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Fractured Lifeworlds - Wind: The Architecture of a Death Camp

Sat, 10. Oct | 9:30 am – 7 pm
Sun, 11. Oct | 5 – 9 pm
At Spore Initiative (Hermannstr. 86, Berlin-Neukölln)

Over the course of four years, @forensis.berlin and @forensicarchitecture collaborated with researchers, descendant communities, oral historians, Indigenous scholars, and activists to develop “Fractured Lifeworlds”.

The second season of this project – “Wind: The Architecture of a Death Camp” – opens with a two-day program created in dialogue with members of the Ovaherero and the communities:

ROOTED IN AGENCY & RESILIENCE, UNITED IN JUSTICE (Sat, 10. Oct)

9:30 am | Welcoming words & introduction
10 am | 122 Years of Living History & Cross-Border Survival
11 am | Exile, Diaspora, & Rebuilding Across Borders
12 pm | Desert Crossings, Concentration Camps, & Forced Labor
1 pm | Lunch break
2 pm | Dispossession, Exile, & the Loss of Sovereignty
3:30 pm | Beyond Genocide — The Struggle for Restorative Justice & Legal Fronts

EXHIBITION OPENING (Sun, 11. Oct)

5 pm | Opening remarks (Curatorial voices from Forensic Architecture / Forensis; Representatives of the Nama Traditional Leaders Association & Ovaherero Traditional Authority; Representative of @ecchr.eu)
7 pm | Music performance by @duma_ma

No registration required.
Learn more on the Spore website.

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How can designers and other citizens develop alternatives to ensure greater justice in society? What space do we need to question systemic flaws and violence? How can the experiences of victims of police violence and their next-of-kin contribute to this? ⁠
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In the lead-up to the Building Public Truths exhibition, Nieuwe Instituut presents an evening to reflect on ‘Designing Justice’, making visible and interrogating the design of systems and institutions, historically structured through (unequal) distributions of freedom, access, and power in society. These systems have their roots in racial and colonial violence and continue to manifest in contemporary forms and places of exlusion. ⁠
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Design can reflect and reinforce these existing shortcomings. It can also interrogate and redesign narratives, values, and structures and help build different public truths.⁠
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During this event, designers, researchers, activists and members of affected communities come together to share insights from their respective fields and to envisage ways of living together that potentially ensure greater justice and accountability.⁠
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Setareh Noorani (@unfolding_something), who will moderate the session, will introduce the French journalist, writer and filmmaker @rokhayadiallo, who will deliver the keynote address. This will be followed by contributions from the British human rights activist Marcia Rigg @inquest_org and from representatives of the research organisations collaborating with the Nieuwe Instituut on the Building Public Truths exhibition: @forensicarchitecture, @forensis.berlin, @index.ngo, and @controle_alt_delete⁠
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Designing Justice is part of an extended programme organised by Nieuwe Instituut with @bakbasecamp and @coloredqollective.⁠
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📅 When? October 8th⁠
📌 Where? Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam⁠
💬 Language? English⁠
🎟️Tickets? € 12,50⁠
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➔ Get your tickets via our website. Link in bio.⁠
Building Public Truths: Designing Justice | 8 October 2026, 19:30 - 21:00, @nieuweinstituut⁠
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Image courtesy by Forensic Architecture.

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Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

Thurs, 08. Oct | 8 – 10 pm
For adults | In English
At Spore Initiative (Hermannstr. 86, Berlin-Neukölln)

No registration required.

Eyal Weizman (@eyal_weizman) is the director of Forensic Architecture (@forensicarchitecture), a research agency that uses satellite imagery and other data to document human rights abuses and state crimes.

Since 2023, FA has been working to gather evidence for the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

In his new book “Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide” (@penguinukbooks), Weizman explores what he calls the deep cartography of Gaza.

From the tunnels below, to the soil, settlements and barriers above, the book cataloges in detail the campaigns of violence and displacement that have made the territory unlivable.

Join us for a presentation of “Ungrounding” from Weizman, followed by a conversation with scholar Sami Khatib.

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This year’s conference programme features Forensic Architecture and Forensis through a lecture by researcher Phoebe Walton.

Forensis is an investigative agency and sister organisation of Forensic Architecture, working with individuals and communities affected by state and corporate violence to produce evidence and support demands for justice, reparations and accountability.

Phoebe Walton, researcher at Forensis, will present counter-forensic investigations, including the police killing of Sammy Baker in Amsterdam and the recently published analysis of the police killing of Ibrahima Barry in Mülheim, Germany. She will discuss how Forensis and Forensic Architecture work with visual and spatial evidence, combining technical and forensic methodologies with the situated knowledge of affected communities.

Video installations of both the killing of Sammy Baker in Amsterdam and the killing of Ibrahima Barry in Mülheim will be exhibited at Katoenhuis as part of the Conflux exhibition programme, open from Thursday to Sunday.

Alongside Phoebe’s lecture, the conference programme includes a talk by Katažyna Jankovska and a panel, What Do You Do When Everything You Do Is Not Enough?, moderated by Bambí Benkö, with Camille Sapara Barton and Jerry Afriyie. Tina Farifteh unfortunately won’t be able to make it to the panel, we wish her all the best. The conference also includes artist talks by Yara Mekawei and Anne Wenzel.

The programme starts at 12:00 at Keilepand and will be moderated by Eric Parren. Access is possible with a separate conference ticket or the passe-partout, valid for all paid parts of Conflux.

See you at the conference!

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This week at Spore, we invite you to share a food, stories and methods of co-resistance. These events offer opportunities to appreciate the agency of more-than-human life; to practice soft resistance; and simply to connect as a local community.

Swipe through to explore this week’s event program.

As always, all events at Spore are free.

Di, 22. Sept

GRIOTAGE RUND UM DAS TABULEIRIO (17 – 20 Uhr)

Thurs, 24. Sept

A POCKET OF QUIET: LETTERS, MEMORIES & SHARED LISTENING (5 – 7 pm)

SOLIDARITY IN PRACTICE: PALESTINIAN-JEWISH CO-RESISTANCE AND THE UNIVERSITY (7:30 – 9:30 pm)

Fri, 25. Sept

EMBODIED RESISTANCE (5:30 – 7:30 pm) @pamoja.rhythms

AROUND EMERGING ASSEMBLAGES (7 – 9 pm) @erze_dinarama @sssl_berlin @kosovopavilion @venice.architecture.biennale @_atelierbrenda

BUCHPREMIERE: „VON TIEREN UND ANDEREN MENSCHEN” (19 – 21:30 Uhr) @zabriskiebuchladen @kailongque @sfischerverlage @s.fischer_stories

Sa, 26. Sept

CUERPOS QUE HABLAN // KÖRPER, DIE SPRECHEN (18 – 22 Uhr) @aquitheaterberlin

Sun, 27. Sept

NEUKÖLLNER STADTTEILTREFFEN (12 – 16 Uhr) @didfberlin @didf.neukoelln

Handle with Care – Aftermath (2 – 7:30 pm) @ira.posrednikova @mila.khatsouk @mirobzal_rusudan @nikarkay @l_i_l_i_t @handle_with_care_project

Exhibitions & Participatory Spaces

FRACTURED LIFEWORLDS (07. June, 2026 - 30. April, 2027) @forensis.berlin @forensicarchitecture @eyal_weizman @thealltallest @agatanc @tuliphoenix @vitjiart @xamques @rosaluxstiftung @medicointernational

ZEITEN BÜNDELN (07. June, 2026 – 06. June, 2027) @mariana_alcantara_ilustradora @jaodardoalbertini @hanaa_el_degham @distel__n @nina_janke @fito.sofia @cecilmoo @adriana.op @abel_rdgz @juleroschlau @silviar49 @michelle_ubermatic @u_yits_kaan @missymagazine @seb_sounds

BEWEGUNGSBAUSTELLE (01. January – 20. December, 2026)

Images: Handle with Care: Aftermath | Sandra Bello | Erzë Dinarama + Atelier Brenda | Hornkranz_1_Settlement Reconstruction (A digital reconstruction of the Witbooi Nama settlement of ||Nâ‡gâs (Hornkranz), attacked on 12 April 1893 following Witboois’ resistance against the German Colonial Army.)

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