Codrin Talaba is a former architect turned design researcher, exploring how we co-create experiences and capture memories in multi-sensory ways. He uses immersive visualization tools, like VR and cinematic LiDAR scanning, to communicate a deeper understanding of the takeaways of human experience in physical places - through the traces of personal and cultural memory.

Neco Çelik is an established director and author who was born in Kreuzberg in 1972. He has made numerous documentaries and films, including “Urban Guerrillas” which was shown in the “German Cinema” section at the Berlinale in 2004. In the same year Celik was reported by the FAZ am Sonntag as the “Spike Lee of Kreuzberg”. Since 2006 he has also been directing plays and operas.

A collaborative experiment to scan an urban topography of Berlin's SO36 district, literally and metaphorically, through layers of memories and meaning using LiDAR visualizations (Codrin) and poetic reinterpretations (Neco). The project explores the ambivalence of emotions that can be linked to a place.