Day of action, International Women⁺’s Day, Open Spaces, Lecture, reading, talk

On the Way to the City of the Future

Name: On the Way to the City of the Future
Start: 2026-03-08T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-08T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Berlin Exhibition at the Humboldt Forum

Berlin Exhibition at the Humboldt Forum

The Hevrîn Xelef garden of medicinal herbs in Berlin-Neukölln

Urban Gardens as Spaces of Empowerment and Feminist Solidarity

Prices
Regular: free of charge

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The event is free of charge. You only need a ticket. Tickets can be booked online or at the Humboldt Forum ticket office from one month before the event.

Location
Berlin Raum (Room 5), First Floor. Doors open at 17.30

Event

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Duration
1h 30min

Urban gardens are now an integral part of city life. From early pioneering projects, a nationwide network of more than 1,000 community gardens has emerged over the past two decades. Today, they are seen as urban laboratories for ecological, inclusive and participatory forms of neighbourhood-building.

From the very beginning, women⁺ have played an important role in the gardening movement. The openness of these cultural and natural spaces makes urban gardens places where people can experience empowerment. They offer ideal conditions for putting feminist ideas into practice and bringing together diverse perspectives.

On International Women⁺’s Day, BERLIN GLOBAL invites you to a visually rich lecture by sociologist Christa Müller. She offers a contemporary analysis of the urban gardening movement, explores its different dimensions and examines its role in shaping a caring, solidarity-centred, multispecies-friendly city.

Afterwards, Anuscheh Amir-Khalili (activist and Open Space curator), Christa Müller and Elianna Renner (artist and activist) will discuss community gardens as spaces of feminist solidarity. The discussion will be moderated by political scientist Yannick Müller.

An event as part of the Open Space exhibition “Dara Tûyê – درخت توت – The Mulberry Tree“.

Participants

Dr. Christa Müller is a sociologist and heads anstiftung, a non-profit foundation in Munich. She has been researching and publishing for many years on DIY movements, with a focus on urban gardening.

Anuscheh Amir-Khalili is an activist, anthropologist and curator of the Open Space. She was born in Iran to a German mother and an Iranian father. In 2015, she founded the organisation Flamingo, a network for refugee women⁺ and children. Since 2019, Flamingo has run the transcultural community garden “Hevrîn Xelef” in Berlin-Neukölln. For her work, she received the Citizen Award from the organisation Global Citizen in 2022. Since that same year, she has been a research associate at anstiftung and a point of contact for post-migrant communities, particularly in the field of community gardening.

Elianna Renner is an artist based in Bremen who works at the intersections of biography and history. She has a particular interest in the stories of women, of marginalised individuals, outsiders, the persecuted and those who have fallen into oblivion. Her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions both in Germany and abroad.

In addition to her artistic practice, she is the initiator of the Köfte Kosher Memorial Pavilion in Bremen and a founding member of Marwa-El-Sherbini Platz e. V., an organisation committed to combating right-wing violence, racism and antisemitism.

Yannick Müller is a moderator and political scientist based in Berlin. He facilitates local and international dialogues between civil society, business, academia and politics, creating open spaces for structured exchange on justice, participation and transformation.

International Women⁺’s Day at BERLIN GLOBAL

Info & Service

Opening Hours

Mon + Wed – Sun | 10.30 am – 6.30 pm
Tue | closed

Last admission is at 5.30 pm

Directions

Schlossplatz
10178 Berlin

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Contact

For ticketing and service requests, please contact the Humboldt Forum Visitor Services:
+49 30 9921 189 89
Mo – Fri, 10 a.m.– 6 p.m.

On the Way to the City of the Future

Participants

International Women⁺’s Day at BERLIN GLOBAL

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