DAMM
WAND
BILD
A COMMUNITY PROJECT 2023
IN LUCERNE (LUZERN), SWITZERLAND
THEME OF THE WALL: WAS WÜRDEST DU NIEMALS WEGWERFEN? / WHAT ARE THE THINGS YOU’LL NEVER THROW AWAY?
WORKING IN PROGRESS, Painting with communities from the neighbourhood. Aug, 2023
Location: Luzern (Switzerland): The wall along the street Baslerstrasse. Lädelistrasse 40, 6003 Luzern
Project Team: Matthias and Karin Leutwyler, Damon and Rahel Lam, Andi and Andrea Müller, Thomas Kubig, Alissa Dawn Wood, Dani Reus, Vanessa Gerotto, Stefan Burri
PAST PROJECTS FROM 2019
SEED OF CHANGE
A COMMUNITY PROJECT
IN LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND
Location: Luzern (Switzerland): 32 meters length of wall, along the street Baslerstrasse; The slide and wagon hanger in the Dammgärtli playground.
Project Team: Matthias and Karin Leutwyler, Damon and Rahel Lam, Andi and Andrea Müller, Miriam Rinderknecht, Adine Schweizer, Kenneth Tsang
Goal: Through creating, with a group of local people, constructive visual images showing the beauty of life, we aspire to plant SEEDs of positive social change in the community so that the playground can be transformed into a safe and welcoming place for families to enjoy.
“Color doesn’t always mean hope, but this project really made this place more hopeful now.”
DETAILS
January–July 2019
Baslerstrasse, Dammgärtli playground, Lucerne, Switzerland
PARTNER
Seed of Change
City of Lucerne
COMMUNITY ART
MURAL
Neighbourhood
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”
THE HIDDEN “RAIN” STORY - by Rahel Lam
The weather was perfect the whole project week, it rained when we needed breaks, the sun was shining when we wanted to continue to paint. On Thursday was our fest for the community, a chance to celebrate our new artworks for the area, the weather forecast was not optimistic, but we managed to ignore it.
In the morning it rained for a while, but in the late afternoon the sky opened up again and the sun came out warmly. It was like an invitation for people to join our party. We were surprised how many people from the neighbouring houses and friends came! We ate and we laughed joyfully.
We invited a folk band called “NEIGHBOR” to play music in our event, they were performing on the ping pong table while all at once it started to rain like cats and dogs.
Everyone gathered together under the little roof, and suddenly we were so much closer. One helped the other to avoid get wet, what a wonderful atmosphere arose! Damon took the guitar and we all sang an old gospel song “This Little Light of Mine” together with the audience. An unforgettable moment, so imperfectly perfect. A roof for the neighbourhood, isn’t that kind of community we’re all longing for?!
COMMUNITY UNITED:
120 people
are asked to be photographed to be pasted in the artworks on the wagon, slide and wall.
ANTICIPATION:
18 adults + 40 kids
are Involved in painting the wagon
THE FEST:
90 people
came to enjoy this warm gathering with music & food
OUR PROJECT TEAM
From left: Adine, Matthias, Karin, Andrea, Andreas, Angelo, Ben, Rahel, Damon, Kenneth, Joanne