Urban Cosmetics

NEW STRATEGIES FOR MUNICIPAL CONFLICT CARE ― Intervention ― Peter Behrbohm & Anton Steenbock (SONDER) @ CURRENT festival for art in public space, Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt, 2023

Measures for urban conflict care are implemented in the public space of Bad Cannstatt. The Berlin-based company Sonder is testing a combination of novel cleaning techniques and aggression-reducing vandalism replica in Stuttgart.

In accordance with the Japanese Sharawadgi, artificial disorder is selectively introduced into the cityscape and spatially limited fine-cleaning measures are carried out in order not to unilaterally solve the conflict-rich balance of mutual disorder and its ordering disturbance that has grown over decades, but to subject it to careful care.

Is your neighbourhood too ugly and polished? Too tidy and dirty? Is it not so much the rubbish that bothers you, but how disorganised it is lying around in town, how roughly it is dealt with? Then you've landed in the right place. Simply request your private sweeping week today!

Our StaMaG67 is ideally for everyday use in the tightest of spaces. The urban massager with a working width of 670 mm handles steep inclines with ease and its electric chain drive works 100% emission-free. It features a universal tool mount and already comes with a generous palette of special tools that allow it to reach the dirtiest of corners, no matter how tricky. Its speciality: bollard maintenance.