Intervention in public space
Curated by Michel Aniol & Meike Kuhnert

Seat pebbles in the Kleiner Tiergarten

Near Turmstraße/ corner of Thusnelda-Allee, 10551 Berlin-Moabit
Geodata : 52.526114,13.338028 oder G8GQ+C6R
5 min. walk from Turmstraße subway station

stay hungry presents the second part of their series of interventions taking place in Berlin's public space Zur Verkieselung des Stadtraums with a site-specific contribution by the dynamic group practice Pegasus Product, which deals with the so-called Sitzkiesel located in the Kleiner Tiergarten and their ambivalent history of creation and reception. 

The long-discussed redesign plans for the Kleiner Tiergarten were realized from 2011-2016 with the idea of socially activating the site. In the course of this redesign, the concrete seating pebbles (german: “Sitzkiesel”) were created, which were erected in the park as potential seating, but were never actually used as such. Contrary to the well-intentioned urban planning intentions, the project sparked controversy among the local population, as citizens criticized a failure of the original idea and its implementation.

This is where Pegasus Products' artistic investigation of the site comes in, presenting a participatory format for Project Space Festival 24 that offers alternative proposals for reactivating and utilizing the seating pebbles and invites visitors to explore the area and the activities taking place there.

The intervention is accompanied and interpreted in culinary terms by stay hungry through a Mobile Menu and invites visitors to eat, linger and discover the site together.

The intervention series Zur Verkieselung des Stadtraums by stay hungry uses locations in Berlin to examine both significant and silent modifications of urban architecture through urban development measures and their influence on the people who move around in it.