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Germany · in English
An ideal city for marginalised drug users in Germany - Talk on the project by Mélina Germes-- »An ideal city for marginalised drug users in Germany - Talk on the project by Mélina Germes«
Drawn after a series of participative mapping workshops led in Berlin and Frankfurt in 2019, this image depicts how an ideal city could look like from the point of view of marginalised drug users. Talk given at the Narcotic City Archive Opening, 29th of October 202 in Amsterdam.
(Type: video)
(Format: 9:49 min)
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Amsterdam · in English
Interview with August de Loor (Stichting Adviesburo Drugs, Amsterdam)-- »Interview with August de Loor (Stichting Adviesburo Drugs, Amsterdam)«
Interview with Gemma Blok about 50 Years of activism for harm reduction in Amsterdam - from the Junkie Union to drug testing kits. October 2021 - Amsterdam.
(Type: video)
(Format: 1:16:15)
Subjects: harm reduction drug checking ,
- Error.tpg Party Posters
Error.tpg* is a queer collective from Marseille organizing parties by queer people for queer people : LGBTQIA, QPOC, sex workers. To them, partying is political, because our queer bodies, music and lifestyles are political. These posters, stuck on the walls of their last party in October 2021 and posted on their social media, are a way to reassert it.
2021MarseilleTemporal Coverage: 2021/2021 (2020s,2021,2020s,2020s,) Read Story -
Bordeaux · in English
Weed and rolling paper in a box of tamponsfr »Du cannabis et des feuilles à rouler cachés dans une boîte de tampons«
A box of tampons with weed and rolling paper inside
(Type: Physical object)
(Format: 20cm)
Subjects: gender, drugs, cannabis, police, paraphernalia,
- Contested Space: Syringes in a Community Garden
Set in the seasons leading up to 2020, this story takes place in a public community garden in Bonn, Germany, in a small lot surrounded by low-rise apartment buildings, in a quiet part of town not far from the Rhine. There was once a playground on this site, but it fell into disrepair and disuse. Increasingly overgrown with plant life – and thus shielded from street view – the abandoned playground was subsequently used primarily by people consuming drugs and alcohol.
2015 – 2021GermanyTemporal Coverage: 2015/2021 (2020s,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2020s,2021,2010s,2020s,) Read Story - Covid-19 — Christiania is closed
Report and images from coronavirus shutdown, May 2020
2020ChristianiaTemporal Coverage: 2020-05/2020-05 (2020,2020s,2020s,2020s,) Read Story - Public Undergrounds: The rise of alternative drug cultures and the invention of the “Scene”
In the early 1970s, the emerging narcotic cultures of West-Berlin not only drew the attention of the public and the media, but came into the focus of academics and public health institutions, First studies and surveys were conducted with one paper standing out in particular. It was entitled “Drug Consumers Underground” [Drogenkonsumenten im Underground] and authored by a collective of young social workers, drug users and educators, some of them with aliases.
1970 – 1975West-BerlinTemporal Coverage: 1970/1975 (1970,1970s,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1970s,1970s,) Read Story - The Methadone Emergency Program
In 1981 the Rotterdam Junkie Union organized a guerilla methadone program. The junkies wanted to offer an emergency provision of this synthetic opiate to the large number of destitute heroin users in the streets, who often suffered acute withdrawal symptoms when they did not have the means to buy heroin. In their report, published in 1983, they explained their efforts in detail.
1981 – 1982RotterdamTemporal Coverage: 1981/1982 (1981,1982,1980s,1980s,) Read Story - Platform Zero
Platform Zero was a financially supported volunteer project near Rotterdam Central Station providing aid and shelter to drug addicts and homeless people. After its foundation in 1987, the Platform grew into an international open drug scene. Eventually the increasing number of visitors and criminality led to the closure of the platform in 1994.
1987 – 1994RotterdamTemporal Coverage: 1987/1994 (1987,1988,1989,1990,1990s,1991,1992,1993,1994,1980s,1990s,) Read Story - The Rotterdam Junkie Union
The Rotterdam Junkie Union was the first user-created interest group for drug users. It was formed in 1980. In the 1980s the union organized multiple protests, provided harm reduction measures, and spoke out against forced treatment for drug users. The union received subsidy from the city of Rotterdam and had close ties to Rotterdam St. Paul’s Church.
1970 – 1996RotterdamTemporal Coverage: 1970/1996 (2020s,1970,1970s,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1980s,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1990s,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1970s,1990s,) Read Story - Travel through an Ideal City of Marginalised Drugs Users
Look at this picture. It’s a huge drawing of how an ideal city could look – but not just any ideal city: the city of drug users, imagined from a variety of marginalized positions.
2019UtopiaTemporal Coverage: 2019 (2010s,) Read Story -
2 Files Zurich · in German
The stuff dreams are made ofde »Der Stoff, aus dem die Träume sind«
The leaflet informs about a "pause for reflection" during which the women's emergency shelter and the sanitary room (consumption room) in the occupied Wohlgroth factory are to remain closed. The reason is problems with drug use and dealing; the "open drug scene" at Platzspitz is only a few hundred metres away from the Wohlgroth.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: squat, drug consumption, drug trafficking, drugs policy,
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Zurich · in German
INVITATION[:] WOHLGROTH WHERETOde »EINLADUNG[:] WOHLGROTH WOHIN«
The leaflet informs about a "pause for reflection" during which the women's emergency shelter and the sanitary room (consumption room) in the occupied Wohlgroth factory are to remain closed. The reason is problems with drug use and dealing; the "open drug scene" at Platzspitz is only a few hundred metres away from the Wohlgroth.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: squat, drug consumption, drug trafficking, consumption room, emergency shelter,
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Zurich · in German
CALL [to the members of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Platzspitz etc.]de »AUFRUF [an die Mitglieder der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Platzspitz u. a.]«
After the eviction of the "open drug scene" in the Platzspitz Park (7.2.1992), drug users, petty traders and homeless people are exposed to the repressive actions of the police on the streets. Various organisations want to document this by being present on the spot, and make it more difficult or even prevent it.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: repression, open drug scenes, solidarity, activism,
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Zurich · in German
Invitation to the opening of the: Café zum Platzspitzde »Einladung zur Eröffnung des: Café zum Platzspitz«
In solidarity with drug users in the "open drug scene" and to draw attention to their situation, the Platzspitz working group opens a café in Platzspitz Park.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: open drug scenes, solidarity, self help, activism, Platzspitz Park,
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2 Files Zurich · in German
Press communiqué of the Fachgruppe Gassennahe Institutionen der Stadt Zuerich on the 10 basic principles of drug policy in Zurichde »Pressecommuniqué der Fachgruppe Gassennahe Institutionen der Stadt Zuerich zu den 10 drogenpolitischen Grundsaetzen von Zuerich«
In its statement, the Fachgruppe Gassennahe Institutionen der Stadt Zürich calls on the authorities to stop the repressive action against the "Filterli-Tische" (tables where injecting paraphernalia were exchanged for the residual heroin left in the filters) and to provide sufficient consumption rooms, decentralised syringe distribution points as well as meals and living space for drug users. At the same time, repressive measures in the streets should be abandoned.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: harm reduction, self organisation, self help, open drug scenes, drugs economy,
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Zurich · in German
Association for Low-Risk Drug Use ARUDde »Arbeitsgemeinschaft für risikoarmen Umgang mit Drogen ARUD«
Information letter on the newly founded Association for Low-Risk Drug Use ARUD.
(Type: letter/leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: harm reduction, methadone prescription,
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2 Files Zurich · in German
OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND -- WE PROTEST AGAINST THE EVICTION OF THE HOMELESS FROM SHOP-VILLEde »AUS DEN AUGEN AUS DEM SINN -- WIR PROTESTIEREN GEGEN DIE VERTREIBUNG DER OBDACHLOSEN AUS DEM SHOP-VILLE«
Protest leaflet against the closure of the Shopville in Zurich's main station in the context of the closure of the "open drug scene" in Platzspitz Park. The precise date is unknown.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: homless, drug users, repression,
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Zurich · in German
Dear drug users and homeless people. Don't let yourselves be barred, computerised, wired -- don't let yourselves be made into slugs!de »Liebe DrogengebraucherInnen und Obdachlose. Lasst Euch nicht vergittern, verdaten, verkabeln -- lasst Euch nicht zur Schnecken machen!«
Leaflet calling on drug users and homeless people to resist the controls at Shopville in Zurich's main railway station and its nightly closure. The precise date is unknown.
(Type: leaflet)
Subjects: homeless, drug users, repression,
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Zurich · in German
Self help campaign Pro Kreis 4de »Selbsthilfeaktion Pro Kreis 4«
Call by right-wing circles for self-help against "slumification", squatting, drug use and trafficking, "freeloaders" and left-wing harm reduction policies.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: vigilante group, harm reduction, self-help, drug trafficking, drug consumption,
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2 Files West Berlin · in German
Statistics on illegal drug use and trade in West Berlin 1968 – 1981-- »Statistics on illegal drug use and trade in West Berlin 1968 – 1981«
(Format: A4)
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Germany · in German
An ideal city for marginalised drug users in Germanyde »Eine ideale Stadt für marginalisierte Drogenkonsument*innen«
Drawn after a series of participative mapping workshops led in Berlin and Frankfurt in 2019, this image depicts how an ideal city could look like from the point of view of marginalised drug users. Not only drug consumption (yellow), but also housing (green), safety (blue), health (orange) and transportation (pink) are crucial issues. Thus the drawing present an alternative planing of the city.
(Type: picture)
(Format: 100 x 100 cm)
Subjects: planing; utopia ,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Affordable housingde »Bezahlbarer Wohnraum«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Housing,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Housing self organisationde »Selbstorganisation«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Housing,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Alternative housingde »Alternative Wohnheime«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Housing,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Housing and shelters for womende »Unterkünfte für Frauen«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Housing,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Emergency sheltersde »Notunterkünfte«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Housing,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Basic rightsde »Grundrechte«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Housing,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Better streetsde »Bessere Strassen«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Transportation,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Alternative transport systemsde »Alternative Transportmöglichkeiten«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Transportation,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Infrastructurede »Infrastruktur«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Transportation,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Free public transportationde »Kostenloses ÖPNV«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Transportation,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Self-regulation in the scenede »Selbstregulation in der Szene«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Meeting place for everyonede »Treffpunkte für alle«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Awareness campaigns about drugsde »Über Drogen informieren«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Better substitution therapy (2)
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Providing and disposing of consumption ustensilsde »Konsummaterialien besorgen und entsorgen«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Social workers in the streetsde »Sozialarbeiter*innen in den Strassen«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Mobile consumption rooms everywherede »Mobile Konsumräume überall«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
More consumption rooms, for everyonede »Mehr Drogenkonsumräume, für alle«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Drug consumption,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Urban quality of life for everyonede »Lebensqualität in der Stadt für Alle«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Healthcare,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Solidarity with the hospital strikesde »Solidarisch mit den Krankenhausstreike«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Healthcare,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Waiting less and having more timede »Wartezeiten kürzen und sich die Zeit nehmen«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Healthcare,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Better substitution therapy (1)de »Substitution verbessern«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Healthcare,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Free access to healthcarede »Kostenloser Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Healthcare,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Radical change of medical behavior towards drug usersde »Der medizinischen Umgang mit Drogenkonsumierenden grundlegend verändern«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Healthcare,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Foundations for safetyde »Grundlagen für die Sicherheit«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Safety,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
The perspective of women and sex workers-- »The perspective of women and sex workers«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Safety,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
An ideal police?-- »An ideal police?«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Safety,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Good behavior of police and security-- »Good behavior of police and security«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Safety,
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Berlin / Frankfurt · in German, English
Decriminalization-- »Decriminalization«
Pictograms drawn by drug users workshops participants, English description below
(Type: Series of hand-drawn pictogram)
(Format: 3 x 3 cm)
Subjects: Safety,
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Bordeaux · in French
COVID and drug users in Bordeaux: interview of Olivier Capdeboscq, La Casefr »COVID et usagèr.e.s de drogue à Bordeaux: interview d'Olivier Capdeboscq, La Case«
Interview d'Olivier Capdeboscq, coordinateur de La Case à Bordeaux, structure de réduction des risques et d'accueil des usagèr.e.s de drogue, à propos des enjeux liés au COVID. L'interview aborde les questions liées à l'hébergement, l'espace public, la santé, la réduction des risques et évoque le projet d'ouverture d'une salle de consommation.
(Type: Video)
(Format: 51 minutes)
Subjects: covid-19, harm reduction, homelessness, community, solidarity, self-organisation, health, drug consumption room,
- 'Fucking Hell'. The story of Truus Oldenburg
In 2018, Truus Oldenburg and professional writer Renate Guitink published the life story of Truus, who was then a woman of 58 years old and living in Amsterdam.
1970 – 2020AmsterdamTemporal Coverage: 1970/2020 (2010s,1970,1970s,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1980s,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1990s,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2000s,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2010s,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2020s,1970s,2020s,) Read Story -
West Berlin · in German
Drug Users in the Underground-- »Drogenkonsumenten im Untergrund Berlin«
In the early 1970s, the emerging narcotic cultures of West-Berlin not only drew the attention of the public and the media, but came into the focus of academics and public health institutions, First studies and surveys were conducted with one paper standing out in particular. It was entitled “Drug Consumers Underground” [Drogenkonsumenten im Underground] and authored by a collective of young social workers, drug users and educators, some of them with aliases. While remaining unpublished for quite a while, it eventually found its way into the archive of the Federal Centre for Health Education (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung). Consisting of more the 160 pages, and including drawings, cartoons, and press clippings, it marks the first ever in-depth description of these new public drug scenes of West-Berlin.
(Type: Report)
(Format: A4, 168 pages)
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2 Files Frankfurt · in German, English
At the main station (Frankfurt)de »Am Hauptbahnhof (Frankfurt)«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Close-up of an Emotional Mapping Collage)
Subjects: Train station, transportation,
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2 Files Frankfurt · in German, English
In prison (Frankfurt)de »Im Gefängnis (Frankfurt)«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Close-up of an Emotional Mapping Collage)
Subjects: Enprisonment, law enforcement,
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2 Files Frankfurt · in German, English
In the drug consumption room (Frankfurt)de »Im Drogenkonsumraum (Frankfurt)«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Close-up of an Emotional Mapping Collage)
Subjects: Drug support, drug use,
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2 Files Frankfurt · in German, English
With the police (Frankfurt)de »Mit der Polizei (Frankfurt)«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Close-up of an Emotional Mapping Collage)
Subjects: Police, law enforcement,
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2 Files Frankfurt · in German, English
With the family (Frankfurt)de »Mit der Familie (Frankfurt)«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Close-up of an Emotional Mapping Collage)
Subjects: Family,
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2 Files Frankfurt · in German, English
Healthcarede »Zur Gesundheitsversorgung (Frankfurt)«
Collage of citations and drawings from the Emotional Mapping interviews by different marginalized drug users in one city
(Type: Close-up of an Emotional Mapping Collage)
Subjects: Healthcare,
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