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 2022 – Cultural Place Making at C*SPACE Berlin
“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!
Video Study Tour: Green Transformation in Berlin
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.
New KIEZ:MOBIL website is launched!
Are you curious to learn more about the project and find out how to rent it? You can visit the website here.
Place Making at C*SPACE Berlin: Impressions from Pop-Up Teahouse Summer 2021
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…
Reading the Traces of a Place 读书地方的痕迹
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.
CITYMAKERS 5th Anniversary Celebration
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.
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CITYMAKERS-Ruhr: Reflections during the corona crisis (2)
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.
CITYMAKERS-Ruhr: Reflections during the corona crisis (1)
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.
We Are All Wuhan – Video Messages
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.
CITYMAKERS Recommendations 2016
Using mapping as a methodology, this analysis by Katja Hellkötter and Magali Menant looks at the bigger picture of cooperation on cities and urbanisation cooperation and identifies blind spots for action. The article is part of the CITYMAKERS Recommendations 2016.
Culture and Architecture as Drivers for Rural Development
Guest editor ZHANG Zhen (RWTH Aachen) attended a three day symposium organized by Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin, Songyang County Government & Aedes Network Campus Berlin in Zhejiang Province in November 2018. Here are her impressions.
Urbanization Trends in China
ZHANG Zhen shares her impressions on some significant features of city planning in contemporary China.
STADTMACHER-Koffer
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.
Die Stadt als interaktive Leinwand
Der Pekinger November 2018 stand im Zeichen der Medienarchitektur und der urbanen Medienkunst. Susa Pop (Public Art Lab) und Juan Carlos Carvajal Bermúdez (Media Architecture) im Gespräch mit Silvan Hagenbrock.
Audiowalk: Brachland Weißensee
Ein Audiowalk über Stadutopien in Weißensee von Katya Romanova
Audiowalk about urban utopias in Weißensee produced by Katya Romanova
CITYMAKERS Maniflux
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!
“Common Space- Everything flows 一切皆流” Artwork at C*SPACE
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.
12 CITYMAKERS Topics Between China and Germany
With twelve selected topics, we describe the most relevant key words. Some of the topics, such as participation, the collective, memory of the city and urban metabolism, are already CITYMAKERS China – Germany feature articles, while others must still be explored.