Practice · 03 / Collaborate
Collaborate
Participatory workshops, co-creation processes, educational programmes and research partnerships. We build conditions for collective imagination to flourish.
ForCommunities · Schools · Partner artists · Universities · Researchers
What we offer
A short list of specific things we do — every engagement is shaped to fit.
School & youth programmes
Multi-week workshop series with primary and secondary schools. Outcomes range from large-scale community murals to speculative writing projects published in local papers.
Co-creation processes
Structured collaboration with non-artists — residents, civil servants, scientists. We hold the frame; the work emerges from the room.
Artist partnerships
Long-term creative relationships with peer studios and individual artists. Joint authorship, shared production, properly credited.
Research partnerships
With universities and research institutes — hosting field-work, contributing to publications, co-supervising PhDs in spatial practice and participatory art.
Programmes & lectures
Teaching, masterclasses and public lectures on participatory practice, spatial imagination and the politics of public space. By invitation.
Recent under Collaborate
Selected engagements.
Collaborate · Community mural
Hägendorf 2100
What will our village look like in 2100? Around 250 pupils of Hägendorf primary school imagined its future — and painted it together as a 6 × 8 m mural in their school.
Collaborate · Public projection
Hägendorf 2100 — Aldgate Edition
A site-specific public projection outside Toynbee Hall in East London: the participatory utopian mural of 250 Swiss village children, translated into an urban context — part of Backyard Biennial 2026.
Collaborate · Workshop
Imagine the Future of East London
An evening workshop at Whitechapel Gallery: participants take on roles, explore the streets of Aldgate and invent — then disrupt — utopias for East London. Open to all, wacky ideas welcome.
Collaborate · Performance
Slow Walking
Ten minutes, one narrow lane, no words: a group moving as slowly as possible through Zurich — a gentle disruption of the city's rhythm.
Collaborate · Action
Love Truck
An old Saurer military truck, painted with a LOVE flag by a group of art students and turned into a rolling manifesto — with 1970s music on board.
Collaborate · Social experiment
5 Tage einfach leben
Five strangers, found with a wooden sign at Swiss train stations, spent five days together in an alpine hut in midwinter — simply being and living.
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