moving.pingpong

'moving.pingpong' is a project that aims to strengthen ties in the community.

The project revolves around a portable ping-pong table that will be moved as a bike trailer to selected areas in the city. Behind this movable ping-pong table lies the basic premise that the universally popular game of table-tennis can serve as a communication and integration tool. People from different demographic, social and ethnic backgrounds will come together by playing table-tennis. The main focus is the integration of refugees and people with weak social backgrounds. These people will be pro-actively brought around the table, allowing language barriers to be overcome and new contacts to be made. The ping-pong tables location in the urban environment will draw public attention and arouse curiosity making the act of getting to know one another playfully simple. 'moving.pingpong' is based on a simple construction kit that enables future users to assemble the ping-pong table by themselves.

Contact: Romy Heiland, moving.pingpong(at)gmail.com