Reverbarations. A Sound Walk through Waldsiedlung Krumme Lanke and Onkel Toms Hütte - Instytut Pileckiego

Join us on February 7 for a truly extraordinary event – experience the relationships between sounds, the rhythms of a place, its acoustic qualities, and its moments of silence

Join us on February 7 for a truly extraordinary event – a sound walk through Waldsiedlung Krumme Lanke and Onkel Toms Hütte!

Some may ask: what is a sound walk? It is a form of attentive engagement with space through listening. This practice cultivates conscious awareness of one’s surroundings: the relationships between sounds, the rhythms of a place, its acoustic qualities, and its moments of silence. It is also an invitation to listen to architecture not as a neutral backdrop but as a carrier of memory, meaning, and, at times, complex historical layers.

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Date: 07.02.2026

Start: 12:00

Meeting point: inside U Onkel Toms Hütte underground station (entrance on Riemeisterstraße)

The event will be held in English.

Please bring a thermos with a warm drink.

Places are limited.

Registration: https://forms.gle/EsdUkJysXhSwNQjC7

The route leads through two neighbouring residential areas in Berlin: Waldsiedlung Krumme Lanke and Onkel Toms Hütte. Created less than a decade apart, they emerged from two markedly different concepts of living and were shaped by distinct social and ideological motivations. Both became material expressions of visions of a new social order, while at the same time revealing the ambivalences of modernity: aspirations to create better living environments intertwined with political agendas and ideological frameworks. In different ways, both projects sought to integrate architecture into the surrounding natural landscape. The sound walk invites participants to explore these relationships through listening.

Particular attention will be given to reverberation, understood as an element that shapes the identity, memory, and intimacy of a place, but also as a means of delineating spatial and social boundaries. Participants will listen to the differences between near and distant sounds, between the noise of the city and the rustling of the forest, between open spaces and the semi-private interiors of the housing estates. The walk focuses on the relationships between body, nature, and architecture as they unfold through sound.

No technological devices will be used during the walk. The only tools will be our “naked ears”, bodily presence, and the time spent together.

The event accompanies the exhibition Plantstory: Eine Erzählung über Architektur, Natur und nationalsozialistische Kolonialpolitik.

Led by: Bea Targosz

Bio

Bea Targosz studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, at the University of Art and Design Linz (KU Linz), and at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where she completed a Meister’s degree in Art and Media. Her sound installations have been presented at numerous art institutions and symposia, including Silent Green Kulturquartier, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and the CENSE International Symposium on Sonic Ecologies. She has received, among others, the Elsa Neumann Scholarship from the State of Berlin and a DAAD scholarship. She participated in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt and was nominated for the Neukölln Art Prize 2025. She is a member of the VIBRA Research Network and Errant Sound.

https://beatargosz.com

Photos: Freie Universität Berlin, https://www.brenne-architekten.de/,