Abstract
The first evening of August 2019, below the beams of the Prinzessinnen- garten’s three-story, unwalled structure, the Laube. We – Marco Clau- sen, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Michelle Teran and Marc Herbst – were sitting there to discuss the 2019 Nachbarschaftsakademie (Neighborhood Academy) program that would begin the next day. Åsa and Marco, or- ganizers of the academy, Marc and Michelle, participants and editors of this book. It was a moist night, having rained earlier in the day; it was somewhat difficult to situate ourselves. Michelle’s recorder was placed between us on the table: it took two hours to begin establishing posi- tions that would need to be clarified in subsequent edits.