Floating Kidsuni is the programme for young explorers in the rainwater retention basin of Tempelhofer Feld. Kidsuni is a practical, ambitious and crazy laboratory, which is stubborn, playful, deep, forgetful, improvised, concentrated, serious and light-footed at the same time, and which has made it its task to enable children to do, research, enable and reflect on the city, art and space.

The public is invited to special moments. Findings or processes are documented so that they are visible and perceptible beyond the moment, stimulating and drawing attention. The aim of the Floating Kids is to manifest the engagement of children in artistic-urbanistic fields of action on an ongoing basis in Floating e.V. and in the wider discourse on urban practice.

Artists: Stefanie Argow, Simon Bauer, Alina Biriukova, James Bromley, Jade Dreyfuss, Lena Düspohl, Constanze Flamme, Benjamin Frick, Inci Güler, Martin Kaltwasser, Martina Kolarek, Olya Korsun, Felicitas Mangan, Lea Martini, Maternal Fantasies, Eva Meyer-Keller, Nicole Schuck, Maddalena Pornaro, Joshua Rutter, Franziska Seeberg, Sophia Tabatadze, Hans Unstern, Hannah Lu Verse, Hendrik Weiner, Sabine Zahn

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From April – October 2025 we offer guided tours for groups aged 3+ that focus on different topics like water, soil, architecture and city planning. The tours take around 2 hours, but you can stay longer on site. Since we still don’t have enough funding this year we ask for a minimum donation fee of € 75.

Please contact: kids@floating-berlin.org

Week-Days with registration
9am – 1pm

We are offering a project day on the topic of water for primary schools and kindergardens in Berlin. We are targeting multilingual groups of students, and want to welcome diverse groups as the performative and activist approach of the WaterkostBar enables translingual experiences and insights.

We invite you to become part of Floating University‘s WasserkostBar. Floating University is located in a rainwater retention basin. Find out what it is a “sponge city” and why Berlin wants to become one. We’ll also take a look at where our water comes from, where water is found and what we put into it and why. We will find, drink and eat different water mixes together and once you have become water experts, you will make your own drinks for the WasserkostBar and for our water library.
These can be delicious, thought-provoking, shocking and funny. Let us surprise you!

The WasserkostBar is funded by Berliner Wasserbetriebe.
Here you can find more material on the topic of water: Blaues Klassenzimmer

Workshop for schools (grade 1 – 6) = 4 -4.5 hours
Workshop for kindergardens (from age 3) = 2,5 hours, with the possibility to spend more time on site
Registration: kids@floating-berlin.org

In the SCHALLWELLENTHEATER project, we explore the sound space of the Kreuzberg rainwater retention basin. Together with participants aged between 4 and 12, we listen to the wind in the reed tufts, amplify the sound of water in the tree veins and search for sound events that go beyond hearing. Sound performances are created that promote a playful approach to music-making and are less orientated towards a musical canon than towards the exchange of sounds with animals and plants in the water biotope
The aim is to create sound mineatures that preserve the need for protection of all participants. The workshops therefore follow the idea of the “sonic sanctuary”: For example, the sound performer* can hide in a place that feels comfortable without being exposed to the gaze of the audience while he*she performs a sound wave theatre in collaboration with frogs, trees and the wind. Frogs seem to be experts in utilising such sonic havens. Together we will explore what other places are where we can sound and be protected.

The project SCHALLWELLENTHEATER is funded by Project Funds Cultural Education – Funding Column 3 – District Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.

Archive of Floating Kidsuni

2024

April – December 2024

What story does a leaf from the reeds of the Floating University tell? How does the plastic bottle that floated to us via the Columbiadamm move us? In the FLASCHENPOST project, we discover stories together about the things and creatures in the rainwater retention basin that we send out into the world.

With Lena Düspohl, Jade Dreyfuss, Anja Fiedler and Ute Lindenbeck

June 22nd / 23rd – Weekend Workshop with the Floating Kids
We collect existing stories about things and creatures in Floating University and invent new legends and rituals.
July 2nd – 4th – Workshop with students from Lemgo Primary School
We invent new stories about the beeings in Floating University and perform them in Lemgo Primary School July 5th.
July 19 th – Workshop with Kita Urbanstraße
We explore the area and find places we like most. We invent stories for these special locations and send our stories to the water.

Report FLASCHENPOST

Funded by Berlin Project Fund for Cultural Education, Funding Column 3, District Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg