Drushba Freundschaft - post fuel landscape
Schwedt to Adamowo
2023
At the beginning of 2023, I started a research project on the sanctioned Drushba crude oil pipeline—which, before the war in Ukraine, was the main source of crude oil for Berlin and Brandenburg. On foot, I followed its route from the refinery in Schwedt, across Poland to the Belarusian border, applying the methodology of promenadeology developed by Lucius Burckhardt. The journey revealed how deeply the now-obsolete infrastructure has shaped the landscape—it is inseparably interwoven with it. Dismantling it would cause cultural as well as ecological damage. Walking along the pipeline thus became an act of remembrance and of friendship between people, landscape, and infrastructure.
Let’s walk Drushba! Stadtmuseum Schwedt 16.10.25 - 15.03.26