Letters of the City

For this workshop, we invite neighbors of all ages from Wedding and Berlin to explore the city’s urban visual landscape through the lens of print, play, and collective imagination. Together with our current artists-in-residence Sukma Smita and Zelin Seah, participants will create postcards using a typeface developed from Berlin graffiti. Each print becomes a small but powerful artifact of voice, neighborhood, and memory.

The workshop is rooted in the artists’ ongoing research: Sukma investigates the politics of printed matter in public space, noting how children’s voices are often absent from Berlin’s layered visual culture. By collecting and printing words and drawings from children, she creates counter-prints that reclaim space for their perspectives. Meanwhile, Zelin’s practice transforms urban fragments – graffiti, soil, fibers, maps – into typographic and cartographic counter-archives that question dominant narratives of land and identity. Drawing on a typeface created by Zelin from Berlin graffiti, participants will learn how letters carry both personal expression and collective memory. 

Through printing postcards together with this typeface, participants will build a shared vocabulary of place that speaks from Wedding, Berlin, and out into the world.