U!R Commons Expo 2023

30.11. -13.12.2023. Opening: Thursday 30.11. 18.00, Opening hours: Tuesday & Wednesday 15.30 – 20.00

Finissage: 12.12. from 16.00

Exhibition of the U!REKA Lab: Urban Commons in the Forum Deutscher Werkbund Hessen, Weckmarkt 5, 60311 Frankfurt

During the annual U!R Commons Exhibition students of the international network U!REKA Lab: Urban Commons from Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Gent, Helsinki, and Ostrava present their artistic-ethnographic and documentary research on urban commons initiatives in the different cities and promote urban co-creation and commoning. In addition, the results of this year’s international network exchange meetings in Ostrava and in Frankfurt will be presented, where students and teachers from the universities came together to work on local urban planning and social issues.

The U!REKA Lab: Urban Commons is an initiative of the partner universities of the U!REKA Higher Education Alliance. At the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt UAS) the teachers and curators of the exhibition are Angelika Plümmer, Petra Schwerdtner (department of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Geomatics) and Raul Gschrey, Jutta Stocksiefen and Katharina Stephan (department of Social Work and Health).