UTOPIA TOOLBOX WHATS UP
2023
February – June 2023
UTOPIA TOOLBOX goes University
Faculty of Design and Art
University of Bolzano, Italy
Together with Kris Krois, Juliane Stiegele is teaching
the Master course in Eco-Social Design
Semester topic:
Staying with the trouble
String Figures – Transforming Together
13. Juni 2023
RED CARPET – An object by Nick Tobier, UTOPIA TOOLBOX Detroit
Flash mob
Piazza Tribunale, Bolzano – Bozen, Italien
A cooperation of
Master course Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bolzano
Climate Actio Alto Adige
Extinction Rebellion
UTOPIA TOOLBOX
MM OPEN
Memmingen visits each other –
An open day for everybody
July 9, from 2:00 p.m.
Up to now, the format of open days is only used by companies or institutions.
MM OPEN is an open day exclusively for the residents of a whole city, for direct encouters between poeple, besides smartphones or computers.
On the 9th of July you will find impovised tables and chairs infront of houses, in patios, garages, gardens or in appartments to welcome guests and talk.
A map indicates the participating locations.
Guests from outside Memmingen are welcome!
Due to the impressive tradition of Memmingen, the first city in Europe in which Rights of Liberty had been formulated in 12 articles in 1525, conversation on this day will focus on nowaday’s utopia of liberty.
More on
mmopen.de
January – November 2023
PROMETHEUS AGAIN
A videoproject by UTOPIA TOOLBOX
The video aims to create an image of warmth against the coldness of our society in so many respects: communication, work, economy. It deals with the meataphor of the fire as a motor, as the energy and incitement to ones own creativity in designing our society.
Prometheus is said to be a ‘mastermind’ [transl.], a the carrier of fire, as an archetype of the courageous rebel who initiated the liberation from nescience. The same time he is a symbol of the ambivalence of progress in science and technology.
What are we burning for?
Public screenings on facades of museums will share the video with nightly passers-by.
The project is founded by VG Bild-Kunst
More here
> PDF (in German language)
January – December 2023 in preparation
UTOPIA TOOLBOX .3
This is the last volume of the series of UTOPIA TOOLBOX books.
Its content deals – particularly in our current times – with the poetry of the unimposing, the inconspicuous, the ignored, the ineffective, the ‘worthless’, the strenght of the weak.
And, beyond all content it puts the question: Can people, a nation survive who lost its poetry?
Projected release: 2024
The works on UTOPIA TOOLBOX .3 are supported
by Kulturwerk der VG Bild-Kunst
PREVIOUS EVENTS
2019 – 2022
22. October 2022, 15:30 h
UTOPIA TOOLBOX – Was hat Kunst mit mir zu tun?
Visueller Essay by Juliane Stiegele
[in German language]
Begabungstag Augsburg
Waldorfschule, Schäfflerbachstraße 26, 86153 Augsburg
Please note for November 2022
URBAN NOMAD – Action and Video by UTOPIA TOOLBOX
Public video screening
More soon
Jan 19 2022, 11 a.m.
UTOPIA TOOLBOX – An incitement to radical creativity
Lecture and workshop by Juliane Stiegele
Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
classroom Johanna Reich
July 22nd 2021 – beginning of 2022
UTOPIA TOOLBOX goes TIM [Textile Museum Augsburg]
For half a year UTOPIA TOOLBOX will be resident of the
Textile Museum, Augsburg, Germany as part of the exibition WHO CARES.
Our work will focus on the topic of solidarity.
See you at the exhibition!
> more information
> All events
May 2020 – June 2021
OBDACH|SHELTER – HOUSE 0
Gaswerksgelaende Augsburg, Germany
A cooperation of UTOPIA TOOLBOX with Staatstheater Augsburg
OBDACH|SHELTER is an art project intersecting with social commitment. It deals with the issue of homelessness in our societies. How do we imagine a social utopia of housing for everybody? What can art contribute to a change? House 0 is an upstream research station to the OBDACH|SHELTER project – for everybody. You can book yourself for free into the house and reflect the subject of housing/security/homelessness during this period of time. Staatstheater Augsburg chose this subject as their motto ‘Eigensein’ for the season 2020|21.
The results of all reflections will be open to the public in an exhibition at Staatstheater Augsburg, likely in June 2021.
Sign up for your stay at House 0 at
maria.trump@staatstheater-augsburg.de
WARMING THE CITY BY 1°C – Spontaneous interventions in urban space
Workshop
Juliane Stiegele
Fri Jul 23 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Sat Jul 24 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sun Jul 25 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum, Provinostr. 46, 86153 Augsburg
> more information
TRANSFORMATION BY CARE
Lecture & Discussion
Kris Krois, University of Bolzano, I
The lecture will be held via zoom.
Tue, Nov 9, 7:00 p.m.
Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum, Provinostr. 46, 86153 Augsburg
> more information
> Join via Zoom
THE DETROIT PROJECT – Brightmore Maker Space
Lecture via zoom
Nick Tobier, UTOPIA TOOLBOX USA,
Tuesday, Nov 16, 6:00 p.m.
Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum, Provinostr. 46, 86153 Augsburg
>more information
> Join via Zoom
Meeting ID: 971 8522 5155
Passcode: 276333
WHO CARES FOR ART? – UTOPIA TOOLBOX does
Visual essay & discussion
Juliane Stiegele
// SADLY CANCELED! //
WARMING THE GLOBE BY 1°C:
THE LONG NIGHT OF BASIC INCOME – Thinking over the welfare state
Talks and discussions with guests who care
Daniel Häni, Action group Basic Income / Switzerland, Enterprise ‘mitte’, Basel
POSTPONED!!! New date t.b.a.
Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum, Provinostr. 46, 86153 Augsburg
Participation free of charge.
Registration required: phone 0821-81001-526
Access subject to the recent COVID regulations.
THE DILEMMA OF SOLIDARITY
Lecture & discussion
Erwin Heller, UTOPIA TOOLBOX
Wed, Dec. 1st, 7 p.m.
via ZOOM
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81057232369?pwd=NVhMMlVEZXpzTnZDTEE0aVFIT0Fldz09
Meeting-ID: 810 5723 2369
Verification Code: 058334
See also: www.timbayern.de –> Veranstaltungen –> Erwin Heller
> more information
APARTMENT HOUSE SYNDICATE – Rooming for Everyone
Lecture & discussion
Marcel Seehuber, Mietshäuser-Syndikat
Thursday, December 9, 07:00 p.m.
via ZOOM:
https://hs-augsburg.zoom.us/j/91947062604?pwd=MXhGRmZnLzVpWnhUeG1ndDZuSHRTQT09
Meeting-ID: 919 4706 2604
code: 162854
See also: www.timbayern.de –> Veranstaltungen –> Mietshäuser-Syndikat
STUTTGART/ Germany
9/25 – 10/11 2021
UTOPIA TOOLBOX
Future ministry for dreams and utopias
See you there!
Please find informations on
utopiatoolbox-stuttgart.de
Sept 11, 2021
ULM OPEN
A city sees each other.
Up to now we only know OPEN DAYS hosted by institutions or companies who open their doors for the public. ULM OPEN is a special day exclusively for the inhabitants of the city of Ulm. It is a day of encounters behind open front- and flat-doors aiming to bring people into real contact to each other.
Finally, ULM OPEN suggests more than just a nice cup of coffee together. On this occacion, the project likes to encourage people to exchange their future dreams of a society they want to live in.
August 12 – 15, 2021
Drawing Trees
An artistic and meditative approach to the old trees on ‘FrauenInsel’,
the island in lake Chiemsee.
In German language
Juliane Stiegele, UTOPIA TOOLBOX
Sign up: office@utopiatoolbox.org
11. September 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Augsburg, Generator hall
Book launch – UTOPIA TOOLBOX .2
Konsequenzen
Werkzeuge für das Unmögliche
Second volume of UTOPIA TOOLBOX released and introduced to the public.
More on the evening’s program > PDF, German language
Join us in the party!
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
Open studio
See you at the castle!
Fri, Aug 21 + Sat, Aug 22 | 18h – 21h each
Fri, Aug 28 + Sat, Aug 29 | 18h – 21h each
Wilhelmsburg | Prittwitzstraße 100 | 89075 Ulm
> Download invitation (PDF, in German language)
> More information in German language: utopiatoolbox-ulm.de
> Find us
June 26 – July 11, 2020
UTOPIA TOOLBOX Container
A Future Ministry for Dreams and Utopias
Ulm, Münsterplatz
The UTOPIA TOOLBOX Container, a temporary ‘ministry for future dreams’ will be in the City of Ulm for two weeks in June/July.
Are we still dreaming of a better world? How would it look like?
How do you want to live in the future – as an individual, as a society, ob the globe?
And above all: What can we even do today to come one step closer to our dream?
Everybody is invited to share their hopes and dreams in the „Utopia Toolbox“
container.
Share your visions and ideas for the future with us !
The Container is placed on a sloping plane allowing the physical experience of our currently imbalanced world. Corresponding with the TOOLBOX, UTOPIA is moving up and down the southern tower of the Ulm Cathedral close by.
See you around the container!
Opening hours: 12 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily [exept for Sundays]
After the project, one idea will be selected and realised.
27. 6. 18:30 h, Stadthaus Catheral Square
Incitement to Utopia [in German language]
Lecture by Juliane Stiegele
Fri 31.07. – Sun 02.08.,
UTOPIA TOOLBOX Container at Wilhelmsburg Castle
MICRO UTOPIAS
Impulsive artwork in urban space – workshop by UTOPIA TOOLBOX
Toolday MAN AND ANIMAL
June 29th, 2 p.m., open end
With the UTOPIA TOOLBOX team
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
contact/sign up: office@utopiatoolbox.org
More > download PDF (German language)
February 14, 2019
Book launch
UTOPIA TOOLBOX .1 in Chinese language
Jia-ming Dai, Juliane Stiegele
Taipei International Book exhibition [TIBE] Taipeh, Taiwan
More details –> PDF
8. January 2019, 20:00 h
By Design or by desaster – UTOPIA TOOLBOX
Lecture
Juliane Stiegele
Institute for cultural analysis,
Faculty for cultural sciences
Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria
10. – 12. April 2019, 10:00 h
MICRO UTOPIAS – Interventions in the city of Klagenfurt
Juliane Stiegele
Faculty for cultural sciences
Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria
2018
16. April 2018, 19:00
The quality of time – 1: Openness and Orientation
How can I find my place, anywhere?
Short lecture – long discussion
Erwin Heller
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
Admission 5 Eur
> Find us
14. May 2018, 19:00
The quality of time – 2: The power of the paradox
Why our brain is twisted
Short lecture – long discussion
Erwin Heller
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
Admission 5 Eur
> Find us
2. – 30. June 2018
UTOPIA TOOLBOX in the Provisorium Nürtingen
7. June, 19:00 h
UTOPIA TOOLBOX celebrating!
The pilot project
‚Holistic interior design for the new Children Hospital’ Augsburg
is successfully finished and received a Red Dot Design Award 2018
Join us!
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
> Find us
> More
18. June 2018, 19:00
The quality of time – 3: Enlightenment and spirituality
How to deal with insecurity when nothing fixed any more?
Short lecture – long discussion
Erwin Heller
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
Admission 5 Eur
> Find us
24. June, 14:00
UTOPIA TOOLBOX – The adventure
Lecutre and discussion on occasion of the project
‚Stairway To Heaven’
Juliane Stiegele
Geh8, Dresden
7. July, 11:00 – 18:00 h
Wenn was fehlt [The lack of something]
Improvisation and creativity
An artistic and practical experiment
Workshop
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
> Find us
> More
30. June 2018, 14:00
Workshop PLAYING FOR ADULTS
Erwin Heller
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
Registration on erwin.heller@web.de
> Find us
9. July 2018, 19:00
The quality of time – 4: Interaction between the real and virtual world
The consequences of information technology and artificial intelligence?
Short lecture – long discussion
Erwin Heller
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
Admission 5 Eur
> Find us
27. July 14:00 h
UTOPIA CITY LIFE – projects and diskussion
with Dr. Simone Egger, Science of culture, Alpen-Adria-University, Klagenfurt
Bogdan Pascalau, architect, Munich, Brisbane
Juliane Stiegele, artist, UTOPIA TOOLBOX
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
> Find us
> More
27. July 20:15 h
Im Herzen Eiszeit – Tatort film with Rio Reiser, 1995
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
Free admission
> Find us
22.– 27. July between 02:00 und 4:00 h
URBAN NOMAD
Intervention on the Utopia of housing
Tramrails, City of Augsburg
28. July 11:00 h
opendot – A tool against loneliness in cities
Project start, lecture on the social dimensions of loneliness
Discussing future perspectives of the project in the city of Augsburg
With Dr. Caroline Bohn, emotion sociologist, Witten
Mayor Dr. Stefan Kiefer, Dr. Simone Egger, Christiane Lembert-Dobler
and the UTOPIA TOOLBOX Team
Moderation: Sebastian Kochs
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
Free admission
> Find us
> More
28. July 15:00 h
BUMPING IN – the lost culture of spontaneous visits
Visiting people who fixed opendots at their front doors
Art-action
Generatorenhalle and the city of Augsburg
Free admission
> More
16. – 19. August
DRAWING TREES – FRAUENINSEL, Chiemsee
An artistic-meditative approach to the old trees on the island
Including lecture and action
Accomodation in the Frauenwörth moastery
17. September 2018, 19:00
The quality of time – 5: Strategies of empowerment
How can I escape stress?
Short lecture – long discussion
Erwin Heller
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
Admission 5 Eur
> Find us
15.October 2018, 19:00
The quality of time – 6: Responsibility
How will our society proceed?
Short lecture – long discussion
Erwin Heller
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
Admission 5 Eur
> Find us
28. November 2018, 18:30
By Design or by desaster – UTOPIA TOOLBOX
Lecture and discussion
Juliane Stiegele
University of Bolzano, Mastercourse Eco-social design
2017
8. September 2017, 14:00 h
Toolday LONELINESS
with Marcel Geisser, zen master, CH
Dagmar Jauernig, zen teacher, CH
and the UTOPIA TOOLBOX team
Generator hall, Wertachstr. 29a, 86153 Augsburg
> see documentation
> Nähere Informationen PDF zum Download [coming soon]
18. – 20. August
UTOPIA TOOLBOX DRAWING TREES – FRAUENINSEL
A meditative approach to the age-old trees of the island.
Accomodation at the Monastery of Frauenwörth
7. – 23. July 2017
UTOPIA TOOLBOX Container – A temporary future ministry
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Markus Church, Munich
Open daily, except on Sundays, 12 – 18:00 h
Visit us at the container and share your future ideas and utopias!
Daily free container university program for everybody
25. June 2017, 10 – 16:00 h
The UTOPIA TOOLBOX Inflatable Container
From the cradle of democracy to its current point of crises
Action
Antikensammlung | Amerikahaus
Königsplatz, Munich
17. June 2017, 20:00 h
Der Blaue Reiter, Munich
Concert for New Music
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
27. May 2017, 20:00 h
Enigma et stupor
Concert with Iris Lichtinger and Stefan Blum
Tonkünstlerverein
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
13. May 2017, 9:30 – 18:00 h
Toolday FREEDOM
With Johannes Stüttgen, artist, Düsseldorf
and the UTOPIA TOOLBOX Team
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
12. May 2017, 20:00 h
Lecture WIE KOMMEN WIR ZUM GRUNDEINKOMMEN
(In German language)
With Johannes Stüttgen, artist, Düsseldorf
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
25. February 2017, 14:00 h – open end
Tent talk: Current state of the world
With Georg Zoche, Andreas Meyer-Brennenstuhl, more invited guests and the UTOPIA TOOLBOX team
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
2016
2. – 10. November 2016
Workshop MICRO UTOPIAS
Juliane Stiegele
National Taipei University of the Arts, Deptm. of New Media, Taiwan
4. – 9. September 2016
The Cathedrale of the future –
Excursion to the Cathedrale of Chartres, F
with Wolfgang Larcher, Chartres
23. July 2016, 14:00 h – open end
Toolday FAITH
With the UTOPIA TOOLBOX team
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
> see documentation
21. May 2016, 14:00 h – open end
Toolday FOREST
Forest society – Human society
With Florian Bosse
and the UTOPIA TOOLBOX team
Siebentischwald Augsburg, Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
> see documentation
25. April 2016, 19:00 h local time
BOOK RELEASE !
The English edition of UTOPIA TOOLBOX.1
Is now available in the USA
Juliane Stiegele, Nick Tobier
UTOPIA TOOLBOX .1
For working on the future – an incitement to radical creativity
In cooperation with University of Michigan, School of Art and Design und Michigan Publishing,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
4. January 2016, 10:00 h
UTOPIA TOOLBOX for attac
Public action involving the inflatable object developed by UTOPIA TOOLBOX for attac’s campagning against CETA
Berlin, Square infront of the Reichstag
2015
11. July 2015, 14:00 h
Toolday MONEY
with Johannes Stüttgen, artist, Düsseldorf
and the UTOPIA TOOLBOX team
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
> see documentation
17. July – 2. August 2015
UTOPIA TOOLBOX Container in Mistlau, Kirchberg-Jagst
Open daily from 10 – 18:00 h
26. September 2015, 14:00 h
Toolday COURAGE
With the UTOPIA TOOLBOX team
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
> see documentation
6. June 2015, 19:30 h, Generator hall Augsburg
The Utopia of man and woman:
TANGO ARGENTINO with live music
by Los Gringos del Tango
Beginner’s class: Hans Steinertt
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
9. May 2015, 14:00 h – open end
Toolday WORK
With Niko Paech, postgrowth-economist, University of Oldenburg and the UTOPIA TOOLBOX team
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
February 2015
Order and Chaos
Interventions in the urban context
Juliane Stiegele
Aalto University, School of Art, Helsinki, Finnland
2014
November 2014
WARMING THE CITY BY 1°C
Workshop for interventions in the urban space
Juliane Stiegele
National Taipei University of the Arts, Deptm. of New Media, Taiwan
12. November 2014, 18:00 h
UTOPIA TOOLBOX – An incitement to radical creativity
Kunst als Antrieb einer zukunftsgerichteten Ökonomie?
(In German language)
Lecture by Juliane Stiegele
Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg,
chair for production and environment, apl. Prof. Dr. Niko Paech
Saturday/Sunday, 18. / 19. October 2014, 10:00 h – open end
Warming the city of Augsburg by 1°C
Workshop for interventions and installations in the urban context
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
Saturday, 13. September 2014, 19:30 h
The first UTOPIA TOOLBOX party!
Warming up the new location.
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
22. July 2014, 19:00 h
UTOPIA TOOLBOX – Container
Invitation to all who have contributed
Generator hall, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
13. May 2014, 19:00 h
UTOPIA TOOLBOX – Project presentation
Juliane Stiegele
University of Bolzano, Italy, Faculty for Design & Arts
13. – 16. March 2014
UTOPIA TOOLBOX goes Leipzig Book Fair
Visit us at our both!
Hall 5 | C 208
2013
10. December 2013, 19:00 h
Book presentation: Utopia Toolbox.1
Juliane Stiegele
Sautter & Lackmann Artbook Sellers
Admiralitätsstrasse 71/72 20459 Hamburg
7. December 2013, 16:30 h
What do you really want?
UTOPIA TOOLBOX – Action
On occasion of the opening of Zukunftsakademie Nordrhein-Westfalen
Kammerspiele Bochum
21.-22. September 2013
ORDER and CHAOS
Interventions in public space
Juliane Stiegele
A workshop by UTOPIA TOOLBOX UNIVERSITY
in cooperation with the Bureau for Peace and Interculture, Augsburg
18. September 2013, 20:00 h
Book presentation
UTOPIA TOOLBOX .1 – Werkzeuge für die Arbeit an der Zukunft
Eine Anstiftung zur radikalen Kreativität
Juliane Stiegele
Generatorenhalle, Wertachstrasse 29a, 86153 Augsburg
30. Juli – 08 August 2013
UTOPIA TOOLBOX Container, Augsburg, town hall square
Open daily from 12 – 19:00 h
In cooperation with the Bureau for Peace and Interculture, Augsburg
27. April 2013 14:00h
UTOPIA TOOLBOX
Project presentation on occasion of the 1. Utopiade Zurich, CH
Juliane Stiegele
Neumarkt Theater, Zurich
19. April 2013 19:00 h
UTOPIA TOOLBOX University
Lecture and discussion on the Social Sculpture
Juliane Stiegele
Grandhotel Cosmopolis Augsburg
