Urban Mending Lab – Between Repair and Apocalypses
A project by the Chto Delat School of Emergencies that explores collective practices of repair and care in times of urban crisis.

The Urban Mending Lab – Between Repair and Apocalypses is a transdisciplinary art project by the Chto Delat School of Emergencies in collaboration with Hajusom. The project views the city as a space full of wounds, tensions, and fractures, while simultaneously exploring collective possibilities for healing, repairing, and reconnecting. The starting point is the bunker located on the second floor at Feldstraße 66 in Hamburg. There, practice-oriented and research-based modules, seminars, and collaborative experiments take place. Artists, researchers, activists, and interested members of the public come together to explore forms of repair as an artistic, political, and collective response to urban crises.

Chto Delat (Russian for What to Do?) is an international collective of artists, philosophers, critics, and authors founded in St. Petersburg in 2003. Chto Delat’s work is based on collective, interdisciplinary, and non-academic research. It is developed in close collaboration with social movements, educational institutions, and art institutions, including long-standing partnerships in Hamburg. Since the collective’s forced emigration in September 2022, Chto Delat has been running the School of Emergencies. It was established in response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the protest movement in Belarus, and the increasing exodus of politically persecuted individuals from Russia as a result of the ongoing fascistization of Russian politics. Together with mentors and invited faculty, the fellows at the School of Emergencies develop new artistic languages and practices capable of capturing and responding to the contradictions and crises of an increasingly absurd world. Further information: www.chtodelat.org

Entrance to the bunker (not via the roof entrance), Feldstraße 66, 2nd floor, 20359 Hamburg. Please follow the signs inside the bunker.

Supported by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media.

Curated by: Bardia Esmaeilloo. An artist from Iran based in Hamburg. He is a student at the HFBK. Alisa Sizykh. A Ukrainian artist and film director based in Hamburg.

Artworkshop HH has been based in Hamburg since 2022. The project supports children and teens with refugee or migrant backgrounds. It offers free art workshops in German, Ukrainian, Russian, and English. Children and teens ages 5 to 18 engage in creative activities involving art, music, and movement. They draw, dance, and create large abstract works. The program is open to all and multilingual—in German, English, Ukrainian, and Russian. Classes take place once or twice per weekend. Each session is unique and led by different artists, dancers, and actors.

Hajusom e.V.
Bunker, 2nd Floor
Feldstraße 66
20359 Hamburg

Young people with a migrant background are especially welcome.

This project is supported by “FREIRÄUME! Initiative for Cultural Integration Projects” — Hamburg Cultural Foundation.

Hey!NEWSOM is aimed at young people who have experienced displacement, migration, and/or racism and who want to explore new avenues of transdisciplinary performance together.

Together with ensemble members of Hey!NEWSOM and invited artists, experimental formats are created at the intersection of performance, choreography, music, and visual arts. The focus is on artistic explorations of migration, interculturality, transculturality, and globalization.

At Hey!NEWSOM, collective working processes take center stage: dance, theater, music, and visual arts merge into aesthetically sophisticated and socially relevant performances. This provides a space to artistically express one’s own experiences and perspectives and to network within an international community.

Hajusom e.V.
Bunker, 2nd Floor
Feldstraße 66
20359 Hamburg

Registration and more information: infos@hajusom.de

Together with HALLO: Radio, we’re exploring the possibilities of broadcasting: What do I want to hear, and what do I want to share? What do the people around me or in my neighborhood have to say? What sounds can we record on the street, and what music goes well with them?
 
We conduct interviews, produce short podcasts, go out onto the street to make audio recordings, and in the process learn about audio technology and how to produce and host a radio show.
 
Finally, we’ll go on the air together, and the show will be broadcast on halloradio.net . The workshops are aimed in particular at young people with a migration background and require no prior knowledge—just curiosity and an interest in radio.

Together with HALLO: Radio, we explore the possibilities of broadcasting: What do I want to hear and what do I want to say? What do the people around me or in my neighborhood have to say? What sounds can we record on the street, and what music goes with them?
 
We conduct interviews, produce short podcasts, go out onto the streets to make audio recordings, and learn about audio technology and how to produce and present a radio program.
 
Finally, we go on the air together, and the program is then broadcast on halloradio.net. 
The workshops are aimed in particular at young people with a migration background and require no prior knowledge—just curiosity and an interest in radio.

Hallo: Hajusom is supported by Aktion Mensch.

Flyer design: Yannick Riemer

Hajusom e.V.
Bunker, 2nd Floor
Feldstraße 66
20359 Hamburg

The workshops are aimed specifically at young people with a background in migration and require no prior knowledge—just curiosity and an interest in radio. Admission is free. Registration: info@hajusom.com

The first episode of the radio project HALLO Hajusom offers a vivid glimpse into the diverse voices of the children from the PARKS children’s program in Hammerbrook. Jasper talks with Matida about her very personal experiences with neighborhood life and community in the area. Kathi and Thea also share their favorite songs on the topic. The episode invites listeners to pay closer attention to how children and adults perceive their surroundings—and perhaps to take a fresh look at their own neighborhoods as well.

Click here for the first episode: HALLO NACHBARSCHAFT

How can hip-hop become a space for new voices, bodies, and perspectives? In this feature, artist Elena Victoria Pastor takes you behind the scenes of “Reclaim the Stage,” a workshop series that brought together dance, performance, and sound to explore self-expression beyond stereotypes. Through interviews with facilitators, the podcast documents the creative process, discoveries, and collective energy that shaped this journey. Concept: Elena Victoria Pastor, Interviews (in order of appearance): JC Hernández, Laura Stefanidis, Oskar Minich, and Mohadeseh Salehinasab, Music piece: “Wann” created and performed by Mohadeseh Salehinasab, Production & Sound Engineering: Oskar Minich, Mentorship: Elena Victoria Pastor. Reclaim the Stage is a project conceived by Elena Victoria Pastor, produced as part of the Rap Squat series at Hajusom, with the generous support of Fonds Soziokultur, Hamburg, 2025.

HERE’S THE SECOND EPISODE: RECLAIM THE STAGE

At the end of October, we hosted an open, two-day radio workshop at the Hajusom Studio in the Bunker on Feldstraße.
Together with children from the neighborhood, we explored the area; they conducted interviews, gathered impressions and sounds, and ultimately produced a radio show in the studio complete with a jingle, music, and conversations.

Click here for the third episode: ON THE ROAD ON FELDSTRASSE

In this episode of Hallo:Hajusom, we’ll hear from the group Lampedusa in Hamburg and listen to their music. Since 2013, the members—who fled the war in Libya—have been fighting for basic human rights and the right of refugees and migrants to stay in Hamburg. We look back on parts of this story, listen to music by DJ Apotoyoa, and learn about the group’s current projects and visions.

Click here for the fourth episode: LAMPEDUSA IN HAMBURG

In the new episode of HALLO:Hajusom, we speak with four artists who have left their home countries and now live and work in Germany: Firat, Yuwen, Sevil, and Daria.
In the conversation, they talk about their journeys, their artistic practices, and the differences between the art worlds of their home countries and the local scene here. We discuss their motivations for relocating and how different living conditions shape artistic expression.
We also discuss unequal opportunities in the art world, the role that family influences play, and explore what it means to establish oneself as an artist in a new context.

This episode is supported by the Nordkirche.

Click here for the fifth episode: ARTIST PORTRAITS

What exactly is classism—and how does it manifest itself in everyday life, art, and culture? In our latest episode of HALLO:Hajusom, we explore the topic of classism and take a look at the Klassenreise Hamburg festival (April 16–May 16).
We discuss access, exclusion, and perspectives surrounding class and culture. Included: A conversation with Carsten Brosda; impressions from a panel discussion at the festival
An interview by Jasper (Hajusom) with Momo from the collective.

Click here for the sixth episode: CLASS TRIP

Class Trip – Initiatives on Social Background seeks to explore the field of structural, class-based inequalities through various activist and artistic formats. The program took place over four weeks from mid-April to mid-May at various cultural venues in Hamburg and included, among other events, Labor Day on May 1 and Aktion Mensch’s Day of Protest for Inclusion. Exhibitions, performances, a film program, workshops, and lectures create participatory and informative moments of exchange and togetherness. In an attempt to embark on a journey along invisible boundaries, through material conditions, and in the footsteps of various artistic and political strategies.

With contributions by: Josephine Findeisen, Steven Solbrig, Bente Hüttmann, Verena Brakonier, Jivan Frenster, Greta Granderath

HALLO Hajusom is a collaboration between Hajusom e.V. and HALLO: Radio, an online community radio station that is part of HALLO e.V., based in Hammerbrook. Hallo HAJUSOM is supported by AKTION MENSCH, Nordkirche, and the Postcode Lottery.

Our mentoring service offers support in all life situations if required.

In mentoring, we provide free advice to young people and young adults, especially on the following topics:

– School, internship, training or work
– Residence status
– Conflicts with teachers, colleagues, supervisors or other people
– Guidance to advice centers

The advice is provided in German. Interpreters can be organized for other languages if required.