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One is quickly oriented in the city of Berlin through the tour guide for the homeless and people living in poverty. Clearly structured according to the city districts and free public centers, cultural institutions and emergency accommodation and their services.

Being homeless means a live without having private space to go back to and to have the center of your life on the streets. The life of a homeless person is, for the most part, defined through the organization of daily routines. Mornings in Prenzlauer Berg eating breakfast and showering, middays at the Zoo doing laundry and in the evenings back to emergency shelters in Kreuzberg to seek out a free bed. Public is not marked yeah with helpful signage that would ease the organization of these daily routines, nor are the organization that help the homeless easily recognizable from the exterior like, for example, McDonalds. Information is an absolute necessity for this group of people. In the world of the homeless, sources of information are largely based on word-of-mouth information. The city guide systematically and differentially visualizes the institutions for homeless aid and the public cultural institutions that allow free entrance.

The city guide contains, just like the usual tourist guide, diagrams for breakfast, lunches, showers, hair stylists, available beds, leisure time activities, etc, and shows them using the well-known city plan sections used in public transportation. It makes possible and invites the use of free cultural institutions, in the sense saying "This is here for everyone". For us, who are not affected, it is a visualization of the spatial dimension of city usage for the homeless.

For us it is important to provide a sensible and need-oriented answer to the problems of the daily life of the homeless and poor with this city guide. The institutions do not only satisfy physical needs they also make possible the reconstruction of social interaction and offer a way back into society.

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Katja and Steffi Hoffmann: Steffi Hoffmann, born on March 26, 1971, Berlin, graduate from her apprenticeship as a biological lab technician as well as undergraduate study in (technological) environmental protection. Since her study of landscape architecture and open-space planning she has work in various landscape architecture firms and in an organization for theatre and beach bar production.

Katja Hoffman, born on March 26, 1971, Berlin, finished her apprenticeship as a (repro)photographer and an apprenticeship as multi-media producer. After her study of art history and painting she is professionally active with her own, independent graphic design firm.