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, Anja Fiedler, Constanze Flamme, Benjamin Frick, Inci Güler, Jörq Heuer, Martin Kaltwasser, Martina Kolarek, Olya Korsun, Ute Lindenbeck, 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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May – October 2026
Week-Days with registration
9am – 1pm
Funded by Berliner Wasserbetriebe

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!

Here you can find more material on the topic of water by Berliner Wasserbetriebe: 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

From May – October 2026 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

Archive of Floating Kidsuni

2025

Workshop with the 2a from Lemgo Primary School July 7 – 10, 2025
Workshop in cooperation with the Children- and Youthclub SINNESWANDEL September 19, 2025
Workshop with the Floating Kids October 4 + 5, 2025

Artists Floating University: Lena Düspohl and Ute Lindenbeck
Artist: Jörq Heuer

In the SCHALLWELLENTHEATER project, we explored the sound space of the Kreuzberg rainwater retention basin with all senses.
Together with participants from Lemgo Primary School we collected the different sounds of the rainwater retention basin and examined different materials to transport sound visions. We’ve created and built different instruments from Floating material and the students created six various sound performances. The workshop closed with an open presentation.
Together with the Youthclub SINNESWANDEL we organized a tour on site and we explored the different (sound) waves and encountered all the different inhabitants of the basin.
In the last workshop with the Floating Kids we focused on translating Sound experiences into visual signs and again presented the sound mineatures for friends and families.
In all workshop we experienced how sound and movement immediately weave an intense link between visitors and the surroundings.

The project SCHALLWELLENTHEATER was funded by Project Funds Cultural Education – Funding Column 3 – District Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Find more information on the funding program here.

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