[Performed City]

[Performed City- The Methodology]

A small town near Frankfurt (15,000 residents) is in a state of ongoing conflicts caused by significant cultural differences of migration. Patricia Ines Hoeppe developed a methodology to enable citizens to find independently a good position for themselves, in the city and within the entire society. To position oneself and to find one’s place seem to be the questions for good social togetherness. By settling and negotiating democratic values and by creating possibilities and actions the citizens are invited to create an expression of the own cultural participation to form their own cultural integration. 

The methodology of PERFORMED CITY works in 3 ACTS: 1. ACT: Inner Line of Action= Performative Positioning a City, addresses the issue in a performative manner. In the 2.ACT: Outer Line of Action= Performative Constituting a City settings and negotiations, initial solutions are proposed and established through the use of representatives. The 3. ACT: Public Line of Action= Citizen Happening is the public presentation of both the processes from the 1. and 2. Lines of Actions offers all citizens the opportunity for active participation in city-shaping processes. The Citizen Happening enables all residents to participate individually and actively in the constitution of a thriving social and cultural environment within their democratic city (cf. Performed City).

[The Inner Line of Action]

This is the first part of the methology PERFORMED CITY: ©Inner Line of Action=Performative Positioning the City/Community is performed by deputies in an enclosed secure setup. It makes visible the current positions and needs of the participants and new citizens and constantly evaluated the development.

[The Outer Line of Action]

This is the second part of the methodology PERFORMED CITY: ©Outer Line of Action=Performative Constituting the City/Community is performed by performers and participants in the real city space. It makes available the divers richness and resources of the participants and negotiate them according to the cultural values of democracy. 

©Outer Line of Action: Mixed Blood. The ’need to mix blood‘ originates from the ©Inner Line of Action / Red Cross, which was unsuccessful in winning over Muslims. Blood represents the deepest familial bonds. Through this action, performed annually at the City Mosque, blood is now shared, and the bonds of blood are no longer to be a source of harm.

©Outer Line of Action: Mixed Blood. The ’need to mix blood‘ originates from the ©Inner Line of Action / Red Cross, which was unsuccessful in winning over Muslims. Blood represents the deepest familial bonds. Through this action, performed annually at the City Mosque, blood is now shared, and the bonds of blood are no longer to be a source of harm.

[The Public Line of Action]

This is the third part of the methodology PERFORMED CITY: The ©Public Line of Action is the performing of a good together by all citizens in the real public city space as an every-day-life-performance. In the ©Citizens Happening methods of instructions, operative settings, involvement, implementation and forms of settling and negotiation are initiated.