querstadtein e.V.

Lenaustraße 4
12047 Berlin
Alemania

Persona de contacto: Jennifer Fielding

+49 30 24 33 94 42; +49 30 28 85 93 63
info@querstadtein.org
https://querstadtein.org/
https://www.facebook.com/querstadtein

Áreas temáticas

• Política / Proyecto de educación
• Antiracismo, Política de integración

Sobre nosotros

The non-profit association querstadtein is committed to a world without exclusion and a society in which diversity is taken for granted. All people should be able to realize their right to social participation regardless of their individual requirements, social circumstances, origins, life plans and gender identities. Individuals should not be allowed to decide who belongs and who doesn't..

querstadtein is particularly committed to ensuring that the voices of people who are often talked about in social debates without themselves having a say become audible. Our work is based on the principles of diversity, openness, tolerance and mutual respect. In its activities, the association is independent of governments, parties, business and religious communities.

Since 2013, the querstadtein association has been developing guided tours in urban spaces as political education formats that invite a change of perspective. The focus is on topics such as exclusion, discrimination and making visible the lives of those who are far too often overlooked. The city leaders show important places in their biography and talk about personal and collective experiences. Through the encounter, querstadtein raises awareness of issues of social and global inequality.

Unusual perspectives, exciting stories: Our city guides take you on a tour and invite you to see well-known things with different eyes. On our tours, people speak for themselves who are otherwise often just talked about by others. Our formerly homeless city guides report on life without a roof over their heads. They show the places in public space where they once lived. New Berliners who have fled countries like Syria and Iraq share their perspectives on their new hometown. The city tours through different neighbourhoods offer space for dialogue as well as the chance to overcome fears of contact and rethink your own prejudices.

Main topics of the city tours:
• Berlin migration stories: Berlin would be unthinkable without migration, without the diversity of identities and lifestyles. Our city tours are led by people who have a migration background themselves. They invite you to change your perspective: Which places make it easier to arrive in a foreign city? What does the situation in Görlitzer Park have to do with the European asylum system? And the spruced up Gendarmenmarkt with its welcoming culture? Where do people with refugee experience make politics in the city? The tours are less about typical sights and more about personal perceptions and structural problems. The city guides report on their own experiences and counteract other people's attributions with their own stories.

• Homelessness & life on the streets: Homelessness and especially sleeping rough changes lives. Losing your home is a traumatic experience. Everything is public, nothing is private. Your perspective on the city inevitably changes when you become homeless, when streets, parks and train stations become the centre of your life. Our city tours sharpen your senses for this different perception of Berlin. People who were or are affected themselves provide information about housing and homelessness in the capital and report on their life on the streets.

• Climate migration: We are working intensively on establishing our new focus on the topic of climate migration. Through city tours in Berlin and location-independent digital educational offerings, we draw attention to the effects of climate change on global refugee and migration movements. The aim is to make the ecological, economic and social consequences of climate change in the countries of origin understandable to a broad audience here.

Jennifer Fielding is the managing director of querstadtein.

On request, we can provide advice for other network participants, give a presentation, and provide current specialist information and contacts in the area of our work.