How can rural and urban spaces – both physical and virtual – be envisioned to cultivate democratic communities?
How can we embody democracy spatially? The exhibition explores the principles of democratic design, asking who designs, for whom, and how can it be ensured that spaces and places are accessible, inclusive, and representative of diverse voices.
A Seat at the Table! engages with the topic through a multidisciplinary approach – combining graphic design, architecture, and interior architecture – and collaborates with Berlin- and Brandenburg-based organizations and local initiatives that represent marginalized groups, including both human and non-human communities.
This exhibition is about power – its presence, absence and distribution. It is about space, both physical and metaphorical, and the barriers we create in it. The table is a metaphor: of assemblage, negotiation, inclusion, but also exclusion. The spatial and visual explorations gathered in this exhibition confront these contradictions. A Seat at the Table! is an invitation. To rethink. To remake. To rebuild. It reminds us that tables are not neutral – they are created, like the systems they represent, for a purpose.
So who will you free up a seat for?
