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.
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.
ZHANG Zhen shares her impressions on some significant features of city planning in contemporary China.
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!
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.
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.
Sebastian Schlecht is an optimist: He believes that we have the necessary resources to generate, test and implement new solutions to sustainable built environments. In his talk with Kika Yang he shares how enriching it can be to experience different perspectives of particular processes. This podcast is part of our podcast series recorded at the CITYMAKERS Social Entrepreneurship Competence Lab.
Health concerns and the built environment have an intertwined history. In fact, health is the topic which has greatly shaped the profession of urban planning, landscape planning and modern architecture for one-and-a-half centuries. What was the concern yesterday and what is it today? And how about the context of China? CITYMAKERS-Guest Author and researcher in Architecture Theory at RWTH Aachen, Zhen ZHANG, presents some of the answers through reviewing the newest research in the book „Lifestyled – Health and Places“, a 2016 publication of research at Harvard University.
Kai Gong ist Musiker und Philosoph, zwischen Berlin und Peking. Mit unserer “Learning Cities Map” spazierte er durch das Pekinger Wudaokou-Viertel und besuchte das in einem Wohnhochhaus gelegene 706 Youth Lab. In diesem Video-Blog hat er seine Eindrücke festgehalten.
LU Ying brings experience from eight cities and three continents to her business in Shanghai. Her enterprise Future Urban Living aims at promoting a circular economy instead of the well-established ‘make-use-dispose’ model.
We came up with the Winter Teahouse as a continuation of the succesful Summer Pop-Up Teahouse Event Series. Take a look at the program and join us on five cozy Friday afternoons and evenings for restful TEA TIMEs, art work inspirations, informal talks and enjoying a cup of tea together!
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.
In 2005, DONG Hao co-founded Crossboundaries and he is now the Managing Director of its Beijing office. In this interview he reflects on how architects/designers are shapers that inspire people and how important it is to create a whole organism with a relationship to individuals and society.
Witnessing emerging initiatives, which upcoming trends do we see? Reviewing project realities, what difficulties and blind spots have we discovered?
Was ist weiter gewachsen im STADTMACHER Urban Gardening Projekt? Im September 2018 sprach Luisa Keinprecht mit zwei Initiatorinnen der Sino-German Gardening Group – WU Yimeng und Cecilia Antoni – über ihre Erfahrungen aus dem 2. Jahr des Projekts.
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.
Learn more about ways to make cities more sustainable and resilient and start your virtual learning journey! This training course contains inspirational and informative videos as well as background information on the relevant topic of sustainable neighbourhoods and was produced by the CITYMAKERS core team in 2021 in Berlin.
STADTMACHER China – Deutschland Redakteur Silvan Hagenbrock im Gespräch über das Kuratieren von Stadt, Peripherie, und Kunst im öffentlichen Raum mit Dirck Möllmann, Stadtkurator der Stadt Hamburg.
It is official! Out of 43 applications, we have chosen 24 contributions to be part of our CITYMAKERS Virtual Walks Projects 2020. From big cities such as Beijing, Berlin, Luxembourg, Shanghai and Vienna to villages like Hallenberg in the Hochsauerland and the Sichuanese countryside – we got it all covered. Learn about our walkers and their topics – and stay tuned for more!
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.