The tour bus of the Design for Democracy movement is on the road again!
From 18-21 May 2023 on the northern Main Quay: Building Democracy Stools!
At the invitation of the City of Frankfurt, the workshop van of the Frankfurt RhineMain application as World Design Capital 2026, which already stopped at more than 20 stations in the Frankfurt RhineMain region from 8 September to 23 October 2022, will be located on the northern bank of the Main, between the landing stage and the Historical Museum. During the Paulskirchen Festival, an open participatory workshop for everyone will be created around it, where visitors can learn more about the contents of the application and take part in various participation formats. Among other things, they will have the opportunity to build a democracy stool, which can only be completed in a collaborative process.
Thursday, May 18 2023
Place: Northern bank of the Main between the landing stage and the Historical Museum
12–6 p.m.
Open offer with young designers from the Design for Democracy crew
12–6 p.m.
Democracy Stool Workshop with students of the HfG Offenbach
2–5 p.m.
Building projects with children! - Workshop and exhibition with Stephanie Dietmann, sponsored by the Kulturamt Frankfurt, as part of the Paulskirchen anniversary
Friday, May 19 2023
Place: Northern bank of the Main between the landing stage and the Historical Museum
11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Open offer with young designers from the Design for Democracy crew
12–6 p.m.
Democracy Stool Workshop with students of the HfG Offenbach
2–5 p.m.
Building projects with children! - Workshop and exhibition with Stephanie Dietmann, sponsored by the Kulturamt Frankfurt, as part of the Paulskirchen anniversary
Saturday, May 20 2023
Place: Northern bank of the Main between the landing stage and the Historical Museum
11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Open offer with young designers from the Design for Democracy crew
12–6 p.m.
Democracy Stool Workshop with students of the HfG Offenbach
11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Spaces of Memory. Paulskirche - Workshop and pop-up guided tours of the Paulskirche (2 and 4 p.m.) with Sandra Engels, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) Justus Liebig University Gießen
Sunday, May 21 2023
Place: Northern bank of the Main between the landing stage and the Historical Museum
11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Open offer with young designers from the Design for Democracy crew
12–6 p.m.
Democracy Stool Workshop with students of the HfG Offenbach
First stop on 16 May 2023 in front of the Historic Villa Metzler at the Museum Angewandte Kunst
In the run-up to the anniversary festival, the Frankfurt Democracy Days will take place from 12 to 17 May 2023, organised and implemented by the Paulskirche Network. As part of the days, the Design for Democracy workshop van will make a stop in front of the Historic Villa Metzler at the Museum of Applied Arts on 16 May from 4-6 pm. Here, for the first time, visitors will have the opportunity to build a democracy stool.
Background: Paulskirchen Jubilee from May 18-21 2023
The aim of the anniversary celebration is to bridge the gap between the local and the global and to commemorate the great significance of the Paulskirche as the meeting place of the Frankfurt National Assembly and thus as the cradle of German democracy, while at the same time highlighting its importance as a monument and conveying the high value of democracy. It also aims to raise public awareness of the defensibility of our democracy and the power of civil society, and finally to create a podium for an engaged debate on the nature and purpose of democracy in the 21st century.
Frankfurt is and remains the historic capital of German democracy. Paulskirche symbolizes the tradition of a democratic and liberal constitution for the German nation like no other place. Paulskirche is thus one of the most important symbols and key sites of our democratic tradition, illustrating how hard-won democratic freedoms are. (Source: City of Frankfurt)