Of someone who went forth to find a flat in Berlin.

Can you imagine a world, in which automation keeps the symptoms of rent mania away from you?

Can you imagine a world, in which your computer finds a flat for you?

Can you imagine a world, in which automation keeps the symptoms of rent mania away from you?

Can you imagine a world, in which you have a Wohnungsbot?

Three steps to an apartment viewing

Download and install the Wohnungsbot

Create your search profile, enter your personal data and write a template for your application

The bot now looks for flats for you — 24/7, whenever your computer is turned on

The bot submits your personalized application to suitable apartments as soon as they are published

Only once you're invited to a viewing of the apartment you review the offer and consider if you want to go

The story continues! Now in the Small Automation Theatre:

Act 3: In ultimate consequence

The Princess realizes that she must move to Berlin when she visits an exhibition in Leipzig. Fortunately, while looking for an apartment, she meets Kasperle, who introduces her to the Wohnungsbot. But even though the Wohnungsbot has already relieved countless people of the symptoms of rent mania, this mission plunges the Wohnungsbot into a crisis of existence, which not only makes him doubt prevailing narratives of automation.

The stage adaptation of the software "Wohnungsbot" negotiates the possibilities and consequences of the attempt to solve social problems with technical means.

Fully-automated puppet theatre
17 minutes, no intermission

17 January — 2 August 2020 at ZAK (Zitadelle Spandau) 19—21 June 2020 at U Karl-Marx-Straße (underground station) 4 August 2020 – 20 October 2021 at Puppentheater Museum 22 October – 7 November 2021 at Weltkunstzimmer (Düsseldorf) 8–10 June 2022 at re:publica 22

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The application "Wohnungsbot" for the exhibition as a download for all common desktop operating systems (no smartphones or tablets). Currently in German only.

Windows

for Windows 10 and up

Installer (x86)

Wohnungsbot-Setup-1.8.2.exe (105MB)

macOS

for macOS 10.11 and up

"Intel" (x86)

Wohnungsbot-1.8.2.dmg (142MB)

"Apple Silicon" (arm64)

Wohnungsbot-1.8.2-arm64.dmg (138MB)

⚠️ Read the FAQ to install and update manually on macOS

Linux

for Ubuntu 18.04+

AppImage (x86)

Wohnungsbot-1.8.2.AppImage (147MB)

Raspberry Pi / Linux ARM

tested on Raspberry Pi 2B+/3B/3B+

AppImage (armv7)

Wohnungsbot-1.8.2-armv7.AppImage (138MB)

AppImage (arm64)

Wohnungsbot-1.8.2-arm64.AppImage (148MB)

The Wohnungsbot is a free (as in beer and as in speech), open source software licensed under AGPL-3.0.
Find the source code on GitHub.

Does the Wohnungsbot help you? Head over here to support Clemens Schöll's artistic work.

Five reasons to use the Wohnungsbot

No more spending time with searching apartments online

Always be one of the first in the lessor's inbox

Never miss an apartment listing again — the bot sees every listing, no matter how short it stays online or whether you are lying in your hamock

Convincing, personalized applications thanks to text building blocks which the bot adapts to each listing

Less time spent searching for an apartment
= better mood

Can you imagine automation?

Learn about the background and follow @wohnungsbot for updates:

FAQ

@wohnungsbot
on Mastodon

@wohnungsbot
on Facebook

Press and further information:

Tagesspiegel

Tagesspiegel Leute Neukölln

Lecture at 36C3

Deutschlandfunk Nova

Star FM

FOCUS — Gute Nachrichten

Shortlist for the web-residency by ZKM & Solitude

Other projects by Clemens Schöll

The Wohnungsbot is part of the exhibition:

Of someone who went forth to find a flat in Berlin.

An automation-drama in three acts

Act 2: The bot's promise

by Clemens Schöll

14—16 June 2019
Weisestraße 58
12049 Berlin

Flat-hunting in Berlin? Always on the computer, scrolling, reloading, browsing, applying? Totally 2019.

But now the future is here, the Wohnungsbot: don't just get notified about flat offers - apply directly and automatically!

You only get automated mass replies to your applications? Exactly, that‘s why not only companies should automated and profit of it, but all of us.
In the exhibition (and to download at home) you can experience an alternative future thanks to Wohnungsbot: a future in which the housing shortage does not eat up your free time and nerves.

Who benefits from automation? How do we want flats to be allocated in our society?

The bot asks: Is other automation possible? Let's speculate and find out - and find your future home.

The artist and the bot will be present.

Opening reception Friday June 14 at 9PM
Open without interruption June 14, 7PM — June 16, 7PM

← Act 1: Your future is calling! Respond now Act 3: In ultimate consequence →

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