Market Stalls

In our garden, you can meet many organizations from our house and network, including:

"Trust-O-Mat: A Digital Tool Against Misinformation" by Codetekt
The Trust-O-Mat is a digital tool designed to promote news literacy – an interactive application that helps people recognize misinformation. The tool is aimed at anyone who wants to improve their media literacy and offers an easy and playful introduction to handling questionable information.
Based on the trust-checking approach, Codetekt developed this tool to empower as many people as possible to independently assess the trustworthiness of news.

The application guides users through concrete examples of (dis)information and encourages them to evaluate it based on five central criteria: source, content, quotes, images/videos, and the medium. Rather than providing binary truth assessments, the tool focuses on reflecting on trustworthiness. A gallery walk with explanatory posters complements the digital offering and makes the evaluation criteria visually accessible. Topics such as source verification and critical media consumption are also covered.

"What If? – Working with Futures as a Political Practice" by Superrr Lab
The Publix residents from Superrr Lab are a feminist initiative working on digital policy topics. At their interactive SUPERRR booth, they playfully and imaginatively combine value-based work, digital policy, and futures thinking. How does it work? Spin the What-If Futures Wheel, try out the Political Imagination Toolkit, and discover how fairer futures can be actively co-created.

Engage in a conversation with the Superrr team about why digital policy is always also social policy – and how we can open up new perspectives together.

"Welcome to the Digital Detox Bar" by Tactical Tech
Here you’ll find the drinks that empower us to take back control over our relationship with technology! The Data Detox Bar offers holistic solutions: from adjusting phone settings, strengthening passwords, recognizing clickbait, and managing screen time to engaging consciously with artificial intelligence and understanding its impact.
The Data Detox Bar is an interactive experience consisting of take-away cards with detox “cocktails” that provide practical tips on data protection, digital security, and online well-being. Visitors can take these cocktail cards with them and apply the tips at home, at work, or in everyday life.

"Your Media Moment: Discover What Shapes Your Worldview" by Witten.Lab
“Your Media Moment” is an interactive offering by Witten/Herdecke University – a playful journey through your own media world. Developed by the creators of the interdisciplinary seminar “Understanding Media,” students and lecturers bring their three years of experience in media education to the booth.
The offering is open to anyone curious about their relationship with media and invites visitors to explore their media habits in a fresh and engaging way.

Visitors can look forward to a variety of hands-on stations: a quiz reveals interesting facts about the media landscape and misinformation, while a creative photo activity with personalized whiteboards captures each individual’s “media moment.” A memory game with surprisingly ambiguous terms brings the effects of filter bubbles to life. Topics such as media ownership and the credibility of news are also explored.

Getting to Know CORRECTIV
CORRECTIV is a non-profit media house – but what exactly does that mean? At the market stand, you can engage in conversation with the CORRECTIV team and learn how CORRECTIV's work strengthens democracy: through investigative journalism, media literacy, events, books, and insights into other projects of the media house. And what are your wishes for the journalism of the future? The CORRECTIV team wants to know exactly!

"Hands-On Stand" by DONAUWelle
How does participatory neighborhood journalism work? How do you start your own neighborhood newspaper? The team from DONAUWelle, the neighborhood newspaper in Donaukiez right next to the Publix building, provides interactive insights into their work. Anyone interested can participate on-site or design their own front page.

"News Literacy in Schools" by Journalismus macht Schule
Journalismus macht Schule is the nationwide initiative to promote news literacy in schools. It aims to enable students to inform themselves about current events as comprehensively, objectively, and fact-based as possible. The boundaries between media consumption and media production are increasingly blurred: anyone who likes, comments on, or shares a message, or posts a tweet or blog online, is producing news. Therefore, basic journalistic skills – research, source analysis, and critical thinking – are part of the general education that schools must provide.

Draw up! The Comic Workshop
You have cool ideas in your head and finally want to put them on paper? In this workshop by "Pipe Up! The Word Workshop," it's not about perfect drawings, but about bringing your thoughts to life with creative strokes. Here we don't judge, we draw – quirky, loud, funny, or deep. Try things out, find your own comic style, and let your creativity run free.

Open to all ages, no materials need to be brought. The workshop runs all day and is a walk-in offering.

Save Social-Initiative
Resilient Infrastructure for Journalism: Increasingly, American or Chinese corporate bosses determine what people in Europe read, hear, or see on their smartphones. The algorithms of Big Tech platforms dictate the rules of our democratic conversation - even to the point of influencing elections. The Save Social initiative launched a petition in February aimed at strengthening alternative platforms and making the debate on Big Tech networks like Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, or LinkedIn fairer. At the stand, Björn Staschen, initiator of "Save Social," shows what alternative platforms must look like so that more people use them and also come into contact with journalists and media there.

Reporters Without Borders
What is the biggest threat to media professionals in Germany? From which country did Reporters Without Borders (RSF) support the most journalists in 2024? Test your knowledge about the global state of press freedom and win prizes at the RSF stand.