How Pigeons shape Schöneberg - Ina

After exploring borders in and of Schöneberg during the first workshop meeting, I decided to focus my personal contribution on a different species inhabiting cities all across the world. They are known to cross human-made borders effortlessly, frequently bypass the boundaries of regulations and desired use of public spaces and surely divide human city dwellers into two camps; the ones who like, feed and protect them, and the ones who are annoyed, disgusted and worried of transmissible diseases.
On an exploration of the neighbourhood, I set out to find visual clues of how pigeons shape Schöneberg. The following photos document traces of their bodies, humans’ strategies of adapting to their presence and headlines representing pigeons as the subject of public, political and ethical discussions.