Healthy Communalism

Exploring WTN in relationship to new book RICOCHET - CULTURAL EPIGENETICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHANGE (2021) on Ljå...

Pulau G: invitation to a Public Consultation

Pulau G (Island G) is an artificial island constructed as part of a large scale land reclamation project on the north...

Sharing Along the Way - with Radio KUNCI

A back and forth discussion between Ferdiansyah Thajib (KUNCI), Alya Sebti (Director of ifa Gallery, Berlin),...

A Letter to Refugee Club Impulse

Translation by Mira with comments from Ahmed, Baty & Mazan http://www.impulse-projekt.de/

NTS Radio Hosts Dogged Lands - Archived

Alex Head presents Dogged Lands Mixed & Produced by DISKOHERENT Part one: with extracts from Edgar Allen Poe and...

WTN Berlin on D.I.Y Church Radio Show

Listen Here: D.I.Y Church shares the freedom of speech with a special guest: A musician, performer, visual...

Significant decrease in access to the Köpi

With new ownership comes new rules, regulations and the rather novel feeling of trespass.

Two Year Research Project for WTN - Available to Listen

You are warmly invited to the launch of Dogged Lands, a radio essay exploring a process of European-wide research and...

Expressions of the Domestic

Despite the displacement of persons from the Eis Fabrik in February the site has maintained a high level of activity....

Recreation Ground Berlin

As the sole event within the B_Tour festival requiring a total stand-still, Recreation Ground Berlin took place on...

Wasteland Twinning Network vs. B Tour Festival

Yael Sherill interviews Alex Head co-director of Wasteland Twinning Network http://www.slowtravelberlin.com/2013/08/28/...

Call for Participation - Recreation Ground Berlin

Recreation Ground  Berlin -  Needs You!  Artist’s Impression - Saturday 31st August between 14.00 - 17.00  You are...

Wasteland Twinning meets Teepee Land

As part of the build up to Recreation Ground I made contact with an encampment of tee pees to the left of the Köpi...

Summer Colours

In an attempt to catch up with the Koepi site's activities over the past two months, I offer the following exercise in...

Wasteland on Radio WDR3

Just found this: Paul Plampers work - there is a nice pic of him on the Köpi Brache in the article. ...

Wasteland Twinning Network Forum - Retrospective now online.

Presentations, Works & Wasteland Twinning Ceremonies: Welcome to The Wasteland Twinning Network Forum 2012. A...

Urban Ecologies, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz Poland/ 26 - 27 October 2012

Will Foster and Alex Head from Wasteland Twinning Network Berlin will present at 'Urban Ecologies and its practices'...

Wasteland Twinning Network Forum at ZK/U Berlin | 21-23 Sept 2012

The Games

Exploring submerged territory

Using a dredging device made from our beloved Heris fencing, builders mesh and scrapped tire chains, this initial...

LIVE GAMES BROADCAST - 30th of June 2012

Tune in your internet this saturday 30th of June 2012 Starting 2pm local time Germany - 1pm local time England Radio...

The Fallow Games - Saturday June 30, 14 - 19.00, Berlin

  WASTE, SPORT and HABIT come together for THE FALLOW GAMES The Wasteland Twinning Network hosts a day of...

Improvised workshop on site

As a way to present Wasteland Twinning I organised an afternoon workshop with students from Lawrence Technological...

Overview

Ferdiansyah Thajib from Yogyakarta is in Berlin, what better opportunity to test out the freshly made commentators'...

Upstream: Protest Fest at Cuvry Brache

On the 2nd June the Cuvry Brache space was used to host a day of active solidarity between the various users of the...

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS- The Fallow Games, Berlin Deadline June 13 2012

Do you enjoy scaling walls into unknown territories? playing in the gaps? searching for disorder? could you join...

Semaphore

A series of experiments using long distance communication. Questions and answers have been flying across the river Spree...

Fetched: Inteview on Site

Using a structured conversation I interviewed two young women on the wasteland who grew up in the local area. We...

For skaters and taggers

I have been making more tools of the trade, my approach at the moment is to simply adapt found objects on the wasteland...

Waste Golf

As the Islanders (Nottingham Collective) move towards planning the Wasteland Games to take place in the Summer http://ar...

Tools of the trade. Batch 1

" He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return...

Fairisle's Journal

Foreword:   Leslie Fairisle arrived on the Köpenickerstr 36 Wasteland site in the middle of January. I first...

International Round Table Club - Flags

The Round Table Club was established in 1927 as a means for male British professionals and businessmen to network...

Recent tools of the trade

Designs for tools and functional objects made from found materials on the wastelands. Heras Fencing objects:   ...

A year of distant observation

Selected documentation of peoples activities on the Köpi wasteland, Berlin throughout 2011.

Cloakroom of arms

Nottsterdam Sydyakarta Guwhaburg Glaslumpur Stocklin

Brache observations

Down in the distance by the river there is this man.  He has been pacing back and forth for the past hour, throwing his...

Before and after the bulldozer.

Images by Lars Hayer

SNAP

Objects found on the Island and the Köpi Brache Documented By Will Foster and Rebecca Beinart. November 2011 ...

The last attempt, for the first time.

In a last attempt to capture the end of the summer before autumn settles in, I decided to film some footage of the...

Microphone and camera - Work in progress

This is a preview of a work in progress which Lars and myself have been documenting the wasteland site using a static...

Further field recordings-Berlin

  http://soundcloud.com/wastelandtwinning/field-recording-shouting ...

Field recordings - Berlin

Today we made several more field recordings of the wasteland site, now working with better equipment it was possible to...

Sunset recording - Berlin

http://soundcloud.com/berlin-wasteland/audiowalk-berlin-110721 ...

A map is not the territory.

'We say the map is different from the territory. But what is the territory? Operationally, somebody went out with a...

Picked Litter to make a Litter Picker

  Litter picker made from found materials on the wasteland.    

Found: Large Gray Box.

Going further into mapping the wasteland I thought I would look at Google Maps, Google Earth, Bing etc to see if there...

Mapping the layers of a motley collection

After yet another day of witnessing the wasteland being used for a multiplicity of activities; a set for a film,  a BBQ...

weekend structure

  Built 4th - 5th June 2011 Adapted 11th - 12th June 2011

Rave Residue

Gardener, Builder and Cleaner

Gold diggers.

Spring time in Berlin, and the wasteland is busy. Today I encountered many people walking their dogs and sitting by the...

Found flag

Late this afternoon I made a flag from found objects and erected it at the highest point of the wasteland. ...