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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.