4. Primordial Tables
Lightweight Tables made from scrap mdf and painted with pre language symbols
serve as easily movable tables that can be brought together to promote moments of togetherness.
Jerszy Seymour (CA & UK) is an artist, designer and director and cofounder of the Dirty Art Department, a radical masters program in art and design at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam running since 2011.
He uses the transformative potentials of art, design and activism in order to create 'situations for a possible planet to come' in the quest for the creation of a more equitable, just and joyous world.
His work has been presented in many museums and institutions and is held in many permanent collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the MAK Vienna, Kunsthaus Glarus, the Vitra Design Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Marta Herford, Mudam Luxembourg, M&KG Hamburg, Fondation Lafayette and the Fonds National d’ Art Contemporain France. He is represented by Galerie Kreo in Paris, and has taught and given lectures and workshops at many schools including the Royal College of Art, UdK , Domus Academy, La Sapienza, Eindhoven Academy, Berlin Program for Artists, Hfg Karlsruhe and Saarbrucken, Cranbrook Academy, Ecal Lausanne and the HEAD in Geneva.
Louis Bindernagel (DE, born 1991) is a designer, researcher, and sailor committed to ethical, community-driven design that weaves together ecology, culture, and material to build resilient, interconnected systems.
ARRIVO BERLIN Übungswerkstätten was a pilot project by S27 – Art and Education, which ran between 2015 and 2025. It was part of a city-wide network of organisations helping refugees to find their way into the job market. ARRIVO BERLIN Übungswerkstätten focused on preparing young adults for vocational training or employment through a combination of language lessons, manual and technical workshops and job application training, working closely with Berlin-based businesses.
Since 2026, the project ARRIVO BERLIN Übungswerkstätten has been replaced by the project ARRIVO BERLIN Tec & Crafts.
ARRIVO BERLIN has been funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Arbeit, Soziales, Gleichstellung, Integration, Vielfalt und Antidiskriminierung (Senate Department for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination).