'A View from a Window’ is a project including participants from two cities -Berlin and Istanbul- where they write the things they see, hear, smell and witness through their windows on daily basis during the universal lockdown. In this way, as readers we can track the impacts and effects of pandemic from a daily life perspective and its influence on random streets of two different cities through the journals of the writers. A window becomes a transparent playground for the writers where they transmit their own experience and the ways of dealing with isolation. Also this playground of multiple views give us an overview on how Germany and Turkey handle this critical situation simply by observing the stories of streets. This voyeuristic sense of seeing outside world from private inner angles also provides us textual air view from various districts of both cities. Following sounds, images and texture of streets gives us the dual sense of reading and picturing links from eye to mind by inviting continual attention to images visualised in addition to those seen on window.
 
All of the writers included in the project are women, LGBTQI* people and people with migratory backgrounds. The physical distance which is associated with the pandemic also gives a new highlight to questions of identity and belonging. Not being able to leave our homes has also prevailed and crystallized the already existing power structures and social inequality. At the same time, there has been an illusion of disappearance of borders as digitalism has become the only way of connecting with the world. We observe these paradoxes through the intime perspective and personal experiences of participants.

“Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.”