The FLUTEN opening walk begins on October 4 at 4:00 pm at E-Werk Weimar. From there, visitors are guided through the city, moving from one exhibition venue to the next. Each stop marks the opening of a new chapter of FLUTEN. The walk transforms the exhibition openings into a collective journey, weaving together art, urban space, and the shared experience of exploring flood narratives in different forms and perspectives, before concluding in the atmospheric halls of Gaswerk.

Guided walk along a sound map with acoustic interventions between Asbach and Lottenbach, revealing hidden rhythms and their echoes within Weimar’s water systems and urban infrastructure.

Starting from the question of how rhythms emerge within urban infrastructures, water systems, and the body as a living instrument of measure and perception, the piece was developed as a collective investigation of students and teachers in the Rhythmical Zones course of the Acoustic Ecologies and Sound Studies chair. Through sound maps, graphic notations, installations, and subtle interventions, we explored how the city flows, reflects, and responds to presence. Following the walk, participants are invited to a conversation and listening session for mutual exchange.

Language: German and English

Moats, ponds, and brooks once crisscrossed Weimar. Some were artificially constructed, others of natural origin. What functions did they serve? When and why did they disappear? Where in the old town can they still be traced today? And how did they contribute to flood protection? The open brooks were indispensable lifelines for the urban organism; in some places the water even flowed beneath buildings. In addition, an independent pipeline network still exists today, separate from the drinking water supply, following the routes of the former wooden “Röhrenfahrten.” These carried spring water from the city’s outskirts to feed the fountains in the old town.