Ingolstadt ramp | 2022

A social sculpture as part of the Südwind Festival, accessible and for everyone

In front of the municipal theater stands the city's largest ramp. A landscape of wood and steel with skateboarding and parkour elements, benches, lounging areas, and an open stage connects the theater with the city in a barrier-free manner for three months. As the festival center for the Südwind Festival, the first Bavarian theater meeting for young audiences at the Ingolstadt City Theater, Theater TIER GbR built a 120-meter-long barrier-free ramp with citizens from 11 neighborhoods. Eleven groups from schools, youth centers, and training centers from all over the city spent several months building and painting individual sections of the ramp in their neighborhoods. In a joint process, the individual sections are assembled like a puzzle by the 110 participants with the help of theater technicians.

Cradle to Cradle

In addition to the opening and various festival events, the ramp hosted a daily program of diverse activities, performances, concerts, and theater performances. Nicole Titus organized the open program, which invited all citizens to present themselves. In addition to the program, the social sculpture was a place to linger, meet, exchange ideas, play, and do sports for young and old alike. After the ramp had brought the city and the theater a little closer together for about six weeks, the individual components were reworked into murals, theater backdrops, or park benches and now hang in schools or provide seating in the parks of the city's largest construction company.