Urban Cosmetics

Peter Behrbohm und Anton Steenbock
Current Festival, Stuttgart 2023

From now on, SONDER will carry out measures for the maintenance of urban spatial conflict in the public space of Bad Cannstatt. The Berlin-based company is testing a combination of innovative cleaning techniques while simultaneously applying aggression-reducing vandalism replicas in Stuttgart.

In accordance with the Japanese concept of Sharawadgi, selective artificial disorder will be introduced into the cityscape, along with spatially limited fine cleaning measures, to gently nurture the conflict-rich balance of mutual disorder and its ordering disruption, which has developed over decades, rather than solving it unilaterally.