When "Bild.Bau.Stelle II / Image.Construction.Site III" was initiated in the context of THEATER DER WELT 2002, the project's primary objective was to strengthen through follow-up measures the ITI's efforts in the area of theatrical intervention in conflict zones and to ensure the sustainability of the ITI's early successes. The plan to preserve the accumulated experiences of the successor projects to "My Unknown Enemy" in the form of a new type of project in conjunction with THEATER DER WELT 2005 was made contingent upon a review of project results during the preparation period and possible political constellations.

At the 2005 THEATER DER WELT festival the ITI identified Sudan as a priority region for its work and put it at the centre of "Bild.Bau.Stelle". Thanks to the civil war, a range of conflicts among African and Arab interests with respect to water (Nile), land and oil (pan-African East-West axis) as well as the humanitarian debacle and the failure of politics, Sudan has become a focus of world political attention. Miraculously, in the middle of the humanitarian and political catastrophe in Sudan there still exists a functional national ITI centre, whose project, "Theatre Between the Frontiers", has been at work on both sides of the civil war. The main concern of "Bild.Bau.Stelle" at THEATER DER WELT 2005 was to bring together a selection of participants from the "My Unknown Enemy" project in Stuttgart with the Sudanese "Theatre Between the Frontiers".

In addition to practical exercises and the exchange of different experiences and acting methods, theoretical considerations were also addressed. What role can theatre have in a radically polarized world? How resistant is theatre to manipulation and how ideological must/may it be? An important thrust of the workshop was to create links to basic performance traditions, such as dance/movement, song and storytelling, traditions that have a particularly rich and diverse tradition in Sudan.

The most important goal of the workshop was to establish a center for theatre in conflict zones in Sudan and to provide Sudanese participants with the necessary basic skills to run the centre. These skills required an intensive, two-way exchange of experience there is no way to anticipate from Europe the Sudanese experience on the ground. The workshop was thus not an isolated and one-time experience for the participants, but the beginning of an ambitious international project headed by the ITI. Project partners include ITI Sudan (Ali Mahedi, Kartoum), the Theatre of the Oppressed (Augusto Boal and Barbara Santos, Rio de Janeiro) and the Odin Teatret (Eugenio Barba, Holsterbro). Alexander Stillmark (CIDC) provided the artistic coordination; Nora Amin, performer and author from Cairo, Egypt, was in charge of project coordination in Germany and Sudan.