Jochen Becker (Berlin) works as author, curator and lecturer and is co-founder of metroZones | Center for Urban Affairs and the station urbaner kulturen/nGbK. He curated Chinafrika. under construction (Graz, Leipzig, Weimar, Shenzhen, Nürnberg) and advised the relocation of the Düsseldorf Theater FFT in terms of cultural policy, concept and curatorial work, including the project City as Factory and Place Internationale (2017-22). Most recently, the exhibition Mapping Along (Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, 2021) with metroZones and Helle Fabrik, Dunkelkammer Produktion (Scharaun Berlin, Kunstraum München, 2023) have been shown. Becker is active in Initiative Urbane Praxis and prepared two SITUATION BERLIN congresses as well as the Glossary Urban Praxis for this purpose.