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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.

“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!

»Traces: Xi’an« ist auf der Suche nach Spuren lokaler Identitäten im öffentlichen Raum Xi’ans – einer Stadt zwischen chinesischer Tradition, industriellem Erbe und neuer Kreativwirtschaft. Aber was bedeutet lokal überhaupt?

„Ich weiß nicht, was von mir erwartet wird. Das macht Chaos in meinem Kopf”. Ein Film des multimedialen Künstlers Jakob Joiko in Kooperation mit Baraa Kanaa.

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!

ZHANG Rubing and WANG Keyao are Architects and have worked for China Architecture and Design Group (CADG). In 2012, they founded their own company Zhijian Workshop which not only focusses on renovation research of old and industrial buildings but also undertakes design and art projects in the same field.

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.

From Dialogue to Action: Since 2016, CITYMAKERS supported the realization of selected project ideas in the context of liveable city making. Read here about the ‘CITYMAKERS-Future of Living’ incubator team.

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’.

Daniel Zhang is an architect based in Changsha who studied architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in the US and continued a doctorate in India and Germany. He is also the founder of P8 Community in Changsha.

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.

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.

Three insights led to the program’s design in 2016. First, technological innovation needs to be complemented by social innovation and a more holistic view to sustainable development. Second, a large group of people who studied architecture, urbanism, and city planning between China and Germany are a potential leverage point for stronger Sino-German people-to-people relations.

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 cultural heritage and sustainable urban renewal 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 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 urban renewal in former industrial areas 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 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.

“Wohnbuddy”, founded by Marlene Welzl is a matchmaking platform for elderly and young people to live together. Watch the Videos and learn more about “Wohnbuddy”

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 CROSSBOUNDARIES, award-winng architecture studio in Beijing, founded by Binke Lenhardt and Hao Dong, pioneering in the field of architecture for the future of education. For the CITYMAKERS accelerator program the team brought their vision along to not only create physical learning environments: Creating design thinking based learning programs for kids to become better city makers in the future.