Sprachmiteinander um Afro-Mülheim

Starting in December 2015, 17 students were involved in a series of project workshops during which they gained intercultural experience in contact with the African community and also observed multilingualism, African Englishes and pidgins hands-on, in authentic contexts.

Guided and supervised by experienced scholars, they combined theoretical knowledge with practical experience to investigate the linguistic biographies of migrants, their issues with the education system, together with youth, they photographically documented the community, captured code-switching in audio recordings and created creative forms of multilingualism in rap, and edited all of this for two exhibitions.