30 years after the fall of the Wall, Germany is more divided than ever before on political, social and ecological issues. Prejudices are being reinforced within filter bubbles and new “walls in people's heads” are being erected.
In order to get people talking to each other again instead of about each other, we launched a digital initiative for the online dialogue platform “Diskutier Mit mir” (Discuss With Me) to make these invisible walls of opinion visible – in order to overcome them.
Via social listening we collected numererous authentic hate comments on the web and used them to set up life-size Augemented Reality installations as 3m high and up to 60m long border walls in Berlin: exactly where it is divided today based on attitudes and income. By tapping, parts of the wall could be overturned, thus starting anonymous 1:1 chats with people with opposing views.
