When looking for an expert on the combined topics of environment, education and China, the name Dr. Eva Sternfeld 艾娃博士 pops up at the top of the list. CITYMAKERS has the good fortune of regularly counting Eva among the experts and partners in its network, where she was involved in the focus group “Urban Farming”. While Eva spent her time in quarantine in Qingdao earlier this month, we took the chance to interview her again.
Meet Jan Siefke, who is supporting our CITYMAKERS platform as photographer and host of C*SPACE. City making for him means to question the visible environment – checking the heartbeat of your surrounding, feeling the space – and if possible act on it in your personal style, with your personal skills.
lala.ruhr – the landscape laboratory of the Ruhr Metropolis. We accelerate the design of a sustainable, green and productive urban environment. #think landscape
The CITYMAKERS China-Europe program – as of Sept 2020 – has evolved from a project consisting of two initiating partners to a network constellation of diverse actors on various levels with several sub-projects. Be inspired by the long list knowledgeable, prestigious, creative, dedicated, committed, wise, diverse, trusting, kind and unique partners we had the pleasure to work with!
Katja Hellkötter, Founder of CONSTELLATIONS International, the agency behind CITYMAKERS, and lead program curator, summons up the achievements of the last two years and looks at what lies ahead in the coming year for the evergrowing community of creative and innovative citymakers.
Since 2016, Kelai Diebel has been leading the research project UPFARMING to investigate building integrated agriculture design, policy, construction, maintenance, and economics. Here, Kelai explains more about her project.
URBANI[XX] is a German-Chinese alumni network on the topic of urbanization and urban development. Aiming to find new solutions to current issues in urban development URBANI[XX] brings together German and Chinese alumni in the field. The network is coordinated by the China- Center of the Technical University of Berlin and organizes regular networking events like the China-Lunch.
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.
Investigation of the topic of “boundary” in the city, corona time. A film by Wang Keyao and Fang Kong.
A walk through Luxembourg, one of the European capitals, focussing on the topic of European identity. A film by Rémi Mazourine.
Das KIEZMOBIL-Projekt #gemeinsamkiezmachen in Weißensee Berlin ist von der Dokumentarfilmerin Maude Fornaro begleitet worden. Hier könnt ihr den Film sehen und ein Interview mit Maude lesen, die auch als “Kiezmacherin” seit vielen Jahren kreativ unterwegs ist, u.a. das “Das Öffentliche Wohnzimmer” Projekt realisiert hat und derzeit einen Jugendclub leitet.
Interview mit Benedikt Härlin, Leiter des Berliner Büros der Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft und Koordinator des Projekts „Weltacker“.
In 2002, architect and Feng Shui consultant Howard Choy and his wife Gyda Anders, also an architect, opened their office arqitektur in Weißensee, Berlin. In this interview, Howard Choy explains his understanding of Feng Shui and his attachment to the district Weißensee.
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.
Professor CAI Yongjie is the head of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University Shanghai. His research fields are Urban Design, Public Space, Architectural Design, incl. Urban Sociology and traditional urban space
Witnessing emerging initiatives, which upcoming trends do we see? Reviewing project realities, what difficulties and blind spots have we discovered?
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.
Sind Diaolog und Kooperationen zwischen Deutschland und China zu nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung und Urbanisierung möglich? Einführungsgedanken zum Programmstart 2016 von Katja Hellkötter und Eduard Kögel
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!
One of the Robert Bosch Stiftung’s main fields of engagement is that of international understanding. The Stiftung believes that global challenges can only be solved through cooperation across borders and cultures.