The first prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, was awarded to the project ‘Founding meeting of a climate parliament of all beings and non-beings’ by the Hamburg-based organisation ‘metagarten & helfersyndrom e. V.’. Non-human ‘beings’ (e.g. bees, dogs) and ‘non-beings’ (e.g. plastic packaging, cars) co-determined politics in the project setting by being represented by human ambassadors. These ambassadors organised a climate parliament in their name to negotiate the future of the Earth and bundled concrete appeals to politicians. In the middle of the second lockdown in November 2020, the organisers developed an online version at short notice (live connection of beings and central studio). The project is a unique combination of a participatory project with artistic methods and as a platform for negotiating coexistence and as a model already on its way to the Rhine-Main area.

The second prize, totalling 5,000 euros, was awarded to the project ‘STREETWARE – Saved Item’ by the group ‘Kunstasyl e. V.’ from Berlin. Items of clothing discarded in public spaces and the textile architecture of people without shelter are the subject of a new ‘rag collection’. The material from the street provides an opportunity for artistic exploration of questions of identity, consumption, production methods and sociality, as well as an inspiring abundance of material for various forms of upcycling and recycling. The project rethinks the topics of textile cycles, fast fashion and abundance in a global context and practices subversive stagings with diverse activities for different target groups.

‘Altenburg am Meer - eine soziokulturelle Flusspartie’ by the “Other Music Academy e. V.” in Weimar was awarded the third prize of 3,000 euros. The themes of migration, climate change and social cohesion were explored during a six-week workshop festival in eastern Thuringia. The project title stands for the vision of rethinking the city and seeing diversity as creative potential. The Mary Jane boat was symbolically converted into a mobile cultural platform, accompanied by numerous activities such as puppet theatre, a media workshop and a screen-printing offer, and finally set off with all participants in a large ecological parade through Altenburg. Equipped with sustainable visions of the future, the boat then set off on its river tour to Hamburg with many stops along the way. The large-scale project is an example of a cross-generational, accessible and participatory format with various artistic disciplines and networking partners.