culture of remembrance

The way societies deal with their past, how they remember 
historic events, eminent public figures, political disruptions and developments is undergoing constant change, yet for the present day, it always pursues a unifying goal for communities. “What is it that we must not forget?” and “What is it that we do not want to forget?” are questions right at the heart of any discourse in the context of a culture of remembrance and they shape how we see ourselves as a society. Due to the continously changing multiple perspectives of remembering in a city shaped by migration, perceptions of how to critically address history in the Berlin district of Mitte are also changing. It is one of the most important tasks for today’s culture of remembrance to reflect on current cultural and social changes and challenges as well as the development of appropriate forms of remembering. 
together with established formats, new formats of remembrance are increasingly tested. They include artistic interventions or multimedia approaches, the latter in line with the increasingly 
digitalized society, but also participatory approaches that turn remembrance from a passive into an active experience. Target groups that we are going to focus on more in the future are people with a migration background, young people and people with disabilities.