Workshop2026 Exit Lounge: Rehearsing the post-coal
Zeitz sits within the Central German lignite district, a territory whose landscapes, labor histories, and infrastructures have long been organized around extraction. While Germany has committed to a coal phase-out by 2038, the transition remains extended in both material and political terms. Structural change funding continues to 2038, and the promise of exit is repeatedly stretched by questions of energy security, regional development, and the slow afterlife of mining itself.
This workshop approaches that suspended moment through material. Participants built an exit lounge: a temporary structure for rehearsing the departure from coal, a future memorial.
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Type: Workshop, summercamp
Material: Clay, brown coal as pigment, reused aggregates
Process: Running mold
Summercamp was organized by Reallabor ZEKIWA Zeitz.
Video by Simon Jaramillo Vallejo.
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