In the Hambach Forest, climate activists have built several generations of tree house settlements since 2012, to block the logging of the forest for the expansion of the Hambach open-pit lignite mine. The installation features a Y-shaped bridge that hung approximately 11 metres above the ground until 2023. It comes from a barrio named Oaktown, formed by connecting a dozen tree houses located at a height of 17 metres with bridges and climbing nets.
Participants
DEUTSCHES ARCHITEKTURMUSEUM (DAM) (FRANKFURT, GERMANY)
Oliver Elser, Germany, 1972. Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany
FOREST COLLECTIVE FROM HAMBACH FOREST BUIR, GERMANY
SOMETHING FANTASTIC (BERLIN, GERMANY)
Elena Schütz, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, 1983. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Julian Schubert, Dettelbach, Germany, 1982. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Leonard Streich, Berlin, Germany, 1981. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
MAK – MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS (VIENNA, AUSTRIA)
Team
“Protest/Architecture” exhibition: Oliver Elser, Anna-Maria Mayerhofer, Jennifer Dyck, and Sebastian Hackenschmidt (curatorial team);
DAM – Deutsches Architekturmuseum: Peter Cachola Schmal, Andrea Jürges, Wolfgang Welker, Brita Köhler, Anna Wegmann, Rebekka Kremershof, Confiyet Aydin, Odile Langhammer; MAK – Museum of Applied Arts: Lilli Hollein, Martina Kandeler-Fritsch, Mario Kojetinsky, Janina Falkner, Judith Huemer
Thanks
Frodo, Pia, Dave, Todde, Morsch, Giraffe, Stephan Mörsch, Oliver Hardt, Rokas Wille
Supporters
German Federal Cultural Foundation, Wüstenrot Foundation
