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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.

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During our first virtual CITYMAKERS walk, Popo Fan 范坡坡 showed us what it is like to see Berlin through the eyes of a queer Chinese filmmaker. Its online premiere was followed by a panel discussion between Popo Fan, Carmen Herold, Mo Sun and Silvan Hagenbrock. If you are interested in this discussion, which touched many transcultural topics such as the comparison between queer life in Berlin and Beijing, you can now watch it here.

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While in China, after two months of lockdown, normal life is coming back to the streets, in Europe, the people are only at the beginning of the most difficult phase of this crisis. We asked the 2020 CITYMAKERS accelerator teams from both continents to share their very own experiences about this strenuous time.

How can you re-create your feeling of a liveable city, if you cannot walk the streets anymore? In the situation of lock down in Wuhan, CITYMAKERS-peers developed the “Memory Walk Map-Toolkit”. Join it! Test it! Submit YOUR PERSONAL WUHAN WALK!

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CONSTELLETIONS hatte sich mit seinem STADTMACHER-Programm am Wettbewerber “Berlin MittendrIN” als Partner beteiligt und die Kreativwerktstadt CALIGARI CAMP CHALLENGE ausgerichtet. Über 30 engagierte Macherinnen und Macher sind zusammen gekommen und haben Visionen für den Kiez entwickelt!

Get to know Anusha Venkatachalam Iyer, who participated in the CITYMAKERS Virtual Walk Project with her documentary film ‘Walking the Chinese Countryside’, drawing a parallel between urban and rural spaces in China. Anusha believes that enabling a  healthy lifestyle in harmony with nature is one of the most important missions in city making.

Begleiten Sie uns virtuell auf unserer STADTMACHER- Kiezerkundung, in der wir angetrieben von der Frage “Was heißt eigentlich Stadt machen vor unserer eigenen Haustür” den Kiez rund um unser Büro in der Weißenseer Spitze erkunden. Der Virtual Walk wurde von Kika Yang und Fred Plasmann produziert und lädt dazu ein inspirierende Stadtmacher in unserem Kiez kennenzulernen.

We are thrilled to present the 6 selected 2020 CITYMAKERS-Accelerator-cases and their makers here.

Get to know Gerrit Manke, who is supporting the CITYMAKERS team as a student assistant. Gerrit is studying Urban and Regional planning at the Technical University in Berlin and is fascinated by the Chinese perspective of urban development.

Knut Wimberger ist Partner von Green Steps in Shanghai. Die auf Umweltbildung für Kinder und Jugendliche, Schulen und Firmen fokussierte Organisation vermittelt einen zukunftsfähigen Umgang mit den Ökosystemen Shanghais. Im Gespräch mit Silvan Hagenbrock warnt Knut Wimberger: Die Biodiversität der Shanghaier Wetlands könnte in den nächsten fünf Jahren bereits zerstört sein.

What is on the horizon in the 4th year of the program? We have set 3 goals: Deepen, Focus, Transform.

Together with our local partner Sebastian Schlecht, project manager at Green City Essen and CITYMAKERS-fellow, we realized the first CITYMAKERS-Ruhr networking evening.

Meet Prisca Arosio, shaping our cities and spaces as an urban designer and architect. Prisca Arosio and her colleague Bobby Born participated in the CITYMAKERS Virtual Walk Project with their film ” A conscious walk during pandemic in Amsterdam”. highlighting the influence of the culture of walking on urban planning and development.