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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

“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!

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.

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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…

Dr. Ines Eben v. Racknitz is associate professor of Chinese history at Nanjing University. She has studied sinology, history, and literature in Germany, China and the United States. Her interest is in late Qing Chinese history, imperial culture, entangled Western and Chinese history, and also in the colonial history of treaty ports like Hankou.

Is Berlin a „green” city? What projects, places and people are contributing to a sustainable future for the German capital? In the search for answers to these questions, filmmakers Kika Yang and Randolfe Camarotto,  set-out to produce a video walk. The project was a cooperation between CITYMAKERS and the Sino-German Urbanisation Partnership implemented by the GIZ.

Since 2016, Kelai Diebel has been leading the research project UPFARMING to investigate building integrated agriculture design, policy, construction, maintenance, and economics. Here, Kelai explains more about her project.

Learn more about ways to make cities more sustainable and resilient and start your virtual learning journey! This training course contains videos and background information on the relevant topic of reusing construction waste and utilizing sustainable building materials and was produced by the CITYMAKERS core team in 2021.

Das 25-jährige Städtepartnerschaftsjubiläum zwischen Xi’an und Dortmund ist ein Anlass, diese beiden Städte und das Ruhrgebiet und Xi’an näher zu untersuchen. Auf der Karte, gestaltet von STADTMACHERIN WU Yimeng finden Sie näheres zu Orten, die Sie mal gesehen haben sollten und viele relevante AkteurInnen!

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!

What are the topics and objects that catch your interest in the PLACE? Why? How are you interacting with the place? How are people using the place? CITYMAKERS China – Germany´s WU Yimeng and Katja Hellkötter co-created a booklet – Reading the Traces of a Place 读书地方的痕迹 – as a tool for an alternative spatial cognition.

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.

“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…

5 years of project funding by CITYMAKERS co-initiator, the Robert Bosch Foundation, are coming to an end this autumn.  Better than ‘singing the blues’ we decided to happily celebrated a rich ‘harvest’ of results, true to the motto of ‘Keep Talking, Keep Walking, Keep Thinking.’ –  Watch the 5-Year-Special-Video, get the CITYMAKERS Global Village Postcard, read the special interview-series, and have a look of how lucky we were to celebrate life in Berlin.

CITYMAKERS-Fellow Dr. Annette Erpenstein interviewed four citymakers with ties to Germany’s Ruhr region to explore how corona changed our cities and what we can learn from this experience.

What do our fellow citymakers with strong ties to Germany’s Ruhr region observe in the face of the corona pandemic? What potential lies in this crisis in terms of creating liveable cities? Listen to the personal observations and thoughts of members of our Ruhr-community.

A cinematic learning journey through the city of Berlin, investigating places and people active in the field of ‚Learning Cities‘. A film by Kika Yang and Randolfe Camarotto.

Ein Audiowalk über Stadutopien in Weißensee von Katya Romanova

Audiowalk about urban utopias in Weißensee produced by Katya Romanova