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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.

From Dialogue to Action: Since 2016, CITYMAKERS China – Germany facilitated and supported the realization of a number of selected project ideas in the context of liveable city making. Read here about the ‘CITYMAKERS-Urban Farming Incubator’.

The Virtual Walk “Walking the Chinese Countryside” explores the Sichuanese countryside, while the protagonist interacts with locals and foreigners, reflecting on not just structural, but also lifestyle differences between urban and rural spaces.

The incubator project „Future of Living“ was one of three projects that received support from the CITYMAKERS China – Germany program during its second year of funding. We want to know: What happened since then, how did the project continue? On behalf of the team, Iris Belle answered the questions.

Twin towns Duisburg and Wuhan: Commonalities of different cities? Similar cities with differences? Exploring traces of history and the connections to China in the former steel city. A film by Sonja Broy and Silvan Hagenbrock.

Get to know Silvan Hagenbrock, who has been part of our CITYMAKERS core team since 2016 and contributes his creative energy as filmmaker and editor on urban issues. For him, CITYMAKERS is a (virtual) sphere where the supposedly “other” becomes a little more familiar.

Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Christa Reicher ist seit 2002 Professorin und Leiterin des Fachgebietes Städtebau, Stadtgestaltung und Bauleitplanung an der Fakultät Raumplanung der TU Dortmund. Warum nach ihr die Region die Zukunft der Städte ist, erklärt sie uns im Gespräch.

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.

Gunther Adler war bis Mitte 2019 Staatssekretär im Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit. Adler sprach mit uns über strategische Schnittmengen und Stadtmachen unter ganz verschiedenen Ausgangsvoraussetzungen zwischen China und Deutschland.

Meet Annette Erpenstein, who is supporting CITYMAKERS with her broad expertise on all things urban. She believes that taking an active role in the co-creation of our cities – and not leaving it to the developers and investors – is the foundation of city making.

Song Qun is an architect, artist and curator from Xian, the founder of “Bendi 本地- Local Life”, a 3,000 sqm large cultural space for the contemporary presentation of “Urban Memory”. His approach is beyond mainstream understanding of heritage in China, advocating for cultural memory as the story of everyday life of people and their objects. What  impressed him most in Berlin was the Jewish Museum. “The openness of Berliners towards the history of their city is admirable, and I learned a lot from the fact that each museum is writing the history of the city in its own way.”

Eve Nagel works as a Project Manager for the Robert Bosch Stiftung, in the program area International Understanding and Cooperation. In this interview, she reflects on the progress the CITYMAKERS network has made over the years – and adds her ideas on for where the journey could be further headed.

FAN Popo ist Filmemacher und LGBTQ-Aktivist (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer). Fan ist Absolvent der Beijing Film Academy und Autor des Buches „Happy Together: Complete Record of a Hundred Queer Films“, dem ersten Buch zu diesem Thema in China. Seine Filme werden häufig auf internationalen Filmfestivals im Ausland gezeigt. In China sind sie im Internet oder bei halb-öffentlichen Veranstaltungen zu sehen. Seine Trilogie „Chinese Closet, Mama Rainbow, Papa Rainbow“, in der es um LGBTQ-Familien in China geht, hat in China starkes Interesse hervorgerufen.

Der Journalist SHI Ming gibt uns eine Einschätzung im Kontext der sozialen und politischen Realitäten in China. Sein Plädoyer: Partizipation erfordert nicht nur Teilhabe an der Wahl von vorgegebenen Problemlösungen, sondern vor allem auch Teilhabe an der Artikulation der Fragestellungen.

In this podcast, Kika Yang talks to Erik Ackner, Country Manager at Startup Grind and former organiser of Startup Grind in Chengdu, about the innovation ecosystem in China. This podcast is part of the series recorded against the background of the CITYMAKERS Social Entrepreneurship Competence Lab.

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.

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 adaptation strategies of german cities and was produced by the CITYMAKERS core team in 2021.

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.

Get to know Green Steps,  aiming for a radical but gradual transformation of human behavioral architecture and the acceleration of environmental education. They have prototyped a gamified social network which drives offline community building and nature connection.

Learn more about the CITYMAKERS Accelerator project “New Schrebergarten”, part of the Eco Land Club, establishing the first “Schrebergärten” in China.