Not just for World AIDS Day

Put the pressure on!

Remembering HIV/AIDS yesterday and today

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„Apply pressure!“ – Under this title, we are launching a joint project with the Gay Museum Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts to show that the HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns of the 1980s and 90s were powerful and that we can learn a lot from them for dealing with future pandemics.

The project „Druck machen!“ asks: How can intergenerational dialogue help us to successfully prevent HIV now and in the future, reduce stigma and arm ourselves against future new pandemics?

HIV/Aids in generational dialogue - remembrance meets prevention

For younger people, the early days of HIV/AIDS are now a distant memory. For many older people, however, the political battles for information, prevention and self-determined protection are still vivid memories. How can the dialogue between the generations help to keep the virus in check?

„Spread the Word, not the Virus!“

At the invitation of the IWWIT campaign run by Deutsche Aidshilfe, design students at Berlin University of the Arts are collaborating with Professor Franziska Morlok and curator Michael Annoff on an intergenerational publication project. The project, entitled „Druck machen!“ (Make an impact!), highlights the possibilities of prevention and communication in an era of analogue design, when information, unlike the disease itself, could not yet be reproduced virally.

The evening will focus on intergenerational dialogue. Under the moderation of Michael Annoff speak Eugen Januschke (Gay Museum), Jonathan Gregory and Ahmet Sitki Demir (IWWIT team) with people from the queer and positive communities about how HIV/AIDS can be remembered despite different biographical backgrounds and how this helps us to successfully prevent HIV today and in the future, reduce stigma and arm ourselves against future new pandemics.

FAQs about the „Druck machen!“ project“

What is the „Druck machen!“ project?

„Druck machen!“ is an intergenerational publication project of the prevention campaign ICH WEISS WAS ICH TU. Design students at Berlin University of the Arts are developing analogue print works together with curator Michael Annoff and Professor Franziska Morlok. The posters are a reminder of the history of HIV and AIDS and emphasise how important education and prevention still are today.

Why does „Put the pressure on!“ HIV/AIDS remembrance with prevention today?

„Apply pressure!“ recalls the early days of HIV/AIDS, activism and the fight for information and protection. At the same time, it addresses how people live with HIV today, what options are available for HIV prevention and how we can remain united in solidarity.

What happens to the resulting posters and materials?

The prints and posters developed in the project will be shown and documented as part of „Druck machen!“. Parts of the publication can later be made visible in exhibitions, online contributions or accompanying materials from ICH WEISS WAS ICH TU and the cooperation partners - as a reminder of the history of HIV/AIDS and as a contribution to current prevention.

Cooperation & promotion

„Druck machen!“ is a project of the prevention campaign of Deutsche Aidshilfe IWWIT in cooperation with the curator Michael Annoff, the Schwules Museum Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts. IWWIT is funded by the Federal Institute of Public Health.