SOUP3

We invite you to drink soup with us!

After our “Open Call” on the SOUP3 project a few weeks ago, numerous activists and artists from the neighborhood applied with their great ideas. Three selected project groups want to tell you their ideas over a cup of soup!

We were very enthusiastic about your contributions and are now happy to share them publicly. There are projects from the neighborhood and on different topics. For example, Ina & Nhu want to start a ceramics club, while Tazir and Ahmad want to raise awareness about the current situation in Libya. Faroukh, on the other hand, wants to use a mobile kitchen to cook recipes from home and bring the neighborhood together.

SOUP3 aims to revitalize the power of collaborative knowledge systems and fuse them with creative and feminist approaches to entrepreneurship.

It works primarily with displaced and marginalized communities, whose voices are often not heard. By using creative coping mechanisms, they address the challenges they face every day. Their knowledge is regularly overlooked and underestimated. This project aims to redefine our understanding of creativity.

Participants are invited into an interdisciplinary, transnational ecosystem of exchanges that amplifies their voices and their power by providing them with seed capital, training and connections to develop and test creative, artistic and socio-cultural solutions. SOUP3 is based on the principles of inclusion, empowerment and solidarity. The partnership creates a dialogic bridge between rural East Germany and urban Athens, Greece.

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Project management: Shareen Elnaschie (Office of Displaced Designers), Julia Lemmle (House of Change), Hatice Tahtali + Nina Martin (Oyoun)

SOUP3 is funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the European Cultural Foundation.

_Shareen Elnashie (Promoter)

Shareen Elnashie is an interior designer, creative researcher and design educator working at the intersection of international cooperation, sustainable development and humanitarian aid.

She has international experience working with marginalized communities on participatory mapping and planning projects and inclusive integration strategies. Shareen is passionate about community engagement and believes in enabling meaningful conversations as the foundation for developing resilient communities.

In 2016, she co-founded the Office of Displaced Designers (ODD), a collaborative design and education platform focused on issues of displacement and marginalization.

_Selin Kavak (moderator)

Selin Kavak was born in Ankara and grew up in Istanbul. In 2008 she completed her studies in dramaturgy at the University of Istanbul, during which she studied theater for one semester at the Free University of Berlin as an exchange student. After some experience as an assistant director and actress at Istanbul theaters, she came to Germany at the end of 2008 to study acting and auditioned. She completed her acting studies at the Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft in Bonn (as a scholarship holder of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) in 2013, during which time she appeared on stage at the Theater Bonn several times. She has lived in Berlin since graduating. So far she has appeared in leading roles at the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, Heimathafen Neukölln, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, the Boat People Project in Göttingen, among others. She was seen on TV in the productions “Das Institut”, “Tatort Dresden”, “Matze, Kebab und Sauerkraut”, “Blutige Beginner”...among others, in the cinema “Junk Space Berlin” (HR), “Count my paths Escape” (HR), “In the Shadows”…etc