A kiosk that doesn’t sell but shares – that’s how the project Sharing to Empower began. It explored how newly arrived people from Ukraine in Berlin invent their own forms of sharing and how these practices can create a sense of belonging, help build community, and help shape a new urban environment.
Ein Kiosk, der nicht verkauft, sondern teilt: So begann das Projekt Sharing to Empower. Es fragte, wie neu angekommene Menschen aus der Ukraine in Berlin Formen des Teilens erproben – und wie daraus in einer neuen Stadt Praktiken entstehen können, die Halt geben, Gemeinschaft schaffen und das Umfeld mitgestalten.
What do young people need in the places where they live, study, work, and spend their free time — and how can we involve them in shaping the city? We spoke with two local youth institutions in Berlin-Pankow: Kinder- und Jugendbüro Pankow and Gangway e.V. about insights, experiences, and strategies for making urban planning more inclusive and responsive to the needs of young people.
The full Urban Storytellers Journal is now available to read and download here.
On October 25 at 16:00, we warmly invite you to the launch of the urban storytelling journal at C*SPACE!
“Entrepreneurship is a creative act” – says Prof. Günter Faltin, founder of Teekampagne whom we had the privilege of hosting this autumn for a discussion as part of our C*LAB program. Learn more about the others entrepreneurs gatherings at C*SPACE in 2023…
Are you curious to learn more about the project and find out how to rent it? You can visit the website here.
Ein Audiowalk über Stadutopien in Weißensee von Katya Romanova
Audiowalk about urban utopias in Weißensee produced by Katya Romanova
“POP-UP Teahouse Berlin” is a cultural space making project at C*SPACE Berlin intending to create a tran-cultural space for the AsiaBerlin community and anyone else interested in deeper understanding between cultures. From just beeing and talking over a cup of tea, to using the Teahouse as a performance stage or engaging in discussions about the future and how we want to live: Join the many activities of the Pop-Up Teahouse summer 2022 edition!
Das KIEZ:MOBIL ist ein Projekt der mobilen und kooperativen Stadtteilgestaltung im Langhanskiez in Berlin Weißensee. 2021 ist es mit Förderung des Berliner Senates für Stadtentwicklung und in Kooperation mit dem Bezirk Pankow gestartet. Ihr wollt das KIEZ:MOBIL ausleihen? Ihr habt Lust, gemeinsam eine Aktions-Idee zu entwickeln? Meldet Euch! Hier findet ihr auch den KIEZ:MOBIL-Kalender 2022! #gemeinsamkiezmachen #nachbarschaftverbindet
’Green Cities for our Future’ is a video based training course on low-carbon and sustainable urban development in Germany. It contains 5 course units and was produced by CITYMAKERS in 2021 for the Sino-German Urbanisation Partnership, implemented by GIZ.
Be it in China or Europe, the ability to create communities (both spatial and social) is the ‘currency’ that lies at the heart of livable cities. Five years after the development of the CITYMAKERS China-Europe program, an ecosystem of places and spaces for the exchange and testing of new models of livable cities has emerged across cultural, disciplinary and national boundaries.The Global Village Map shows this ecosystem – a snapshot of projects, places and spaces where most activities happened in the CITYMAKERS program during 2015 and 2020.
The STADTMACHER-Koffer is a toolkit designed by CITYMAKERS to deepen the dialogue between city-making enthusiasts from Europe and China – as well as all people who are interested in the topic of liveable cities in the Chinese-European context.
Between September 1–18, 2020, 45 people from the CITYMAKERS community responded to the invitation to form a virtual circle, a chain of CITYMAKERS voices. What a kaleidoscope of competences on the virtual stage, ranging from high-profile academics to hands-on urban farmers, from art curators and activists to municipal intrapreneurs!
The CITYMAKERS Virtual Walks Project investigates fundamental themes of life in cities and on the countryside that are as relevant for people living in China as for those living in Berlin or any other European city. 20 people have taken part and created amazing video walks! Watch them here!
CITYMAKERS Knowledge-Hub: Aiming at understanding deeper the context of cities and urbanisation processes in China other than in Europe, we have generated various studies, recommendation papers, mappings, tools and more. See an overview on of our diverse print and e-publications here.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of city relations between Berlin and Beijing our CITYMAKERS-team developed a new framework for Sino-German twin cities to further learn and innovate for liveable city making.
The “Pop-Up Teahouse Berlin” was a special summer 2021 place making project created and hosted at C*SPACE Berlin. On six Saturdays between July and October the charming yard of the former furniture factory in the neighbourhood of Weissensee was transformed into an outdoor teahouse, that was not only a place for casual tea hangouts, informal transcultural dialogues and talks, but also a platform for design workshops as well for artistic performances at night. Find here a photo documentation and some videos…
Mit Förderung des Fonds Soziokultur /Neustart Kultur präsentierte CITYMAKERS diesen Herbst in Berlin: “Vielfalt entdecken – Partizipative Video Walks”. Wir stellten die Fragen, “Was für interessante und vor allem vielfältige Geschichten von Menschen und Orten gibt es in unserem jeweiligen Kiez? Was macht Vielfalt aus?” 5 engagierte Künstler*innen und gesellschaftlichen Akteur*innen haben diese Fragen durch tolle filmische Stadtspaziergänge beantwortet und wir möchten sie hier zeigen!
Everything is always in flow 一切皆流 : When two artists from Beijing got stranded in Berlin, their creative energy fundamentally changed the face of the CITYMAKERS residence.