Sunday, April 28, 2013
Internationale Sommerschule Berlin / San Juan, Puerto Rico (USA)
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Urban Development in Berlin
Field trip of the Department of Urban Studies, University of Malmö, 8th -10th of may 2010
Urban Passion organized a three day field trip for about 40 scholars and practitioners from Sweden and Denmark. It consisted of three guided tours with expert tour guides, two workshops with Berlin based practitioners and researchers (The Hub Berlin; Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt University). The trip was initiated and coordinated by Frederick Björn, researcher and teacher at Malmö University, Department of Urban Studies.
Subject:
Is it possible to reach urban sustainability through social innovation by the means of social entrepreneurship!?
This question was the starting point of the excursion. Because social entrepreneurship in the classical sense does not play a big role in urban development in Berlin in our opinion, we didn´t try to look for projects, places and actors which would call themselves social entrepreneurs in the first place. We rather wanted to show the group an
contested urban area, Media Spree, to start with. The idea was to look at a wide spectrum of actors, both institutional and non institutional, in order to see their relevance in the framework of sustainable urban development and social innovation. The experiences and the expectancies where cross checked and broadened to other parts of Berlin in the workshops and additional field trips later on.
Social Entrepreneurship proved to be a little applied term in Berlin. The relevance in the Scandinavian context seems to be much higher and the involvement of institutional actors within button up urban development through small cultural and socially active actors (entrepreneurs) is much bigger. Yet the drive of button up actors in urban development in Berlin is still very strong, even though and maybe even because there is not really a comprehensive scheme for sustainable urban development integrating bottom up movements.
Program:
Routes of the different groups. (Guides: Carsten Joost, Anja Steglich, Yves Mikelsons-Roloff ) 
Workshop at meeting space of KUNSTrePUBLIK, Jürgen Breiter (THE HUB BERLIN)
Workshop at Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies.
Prof. Harald Mieg (welcoming the groups participants)
Workshop participants/function:
Prof. Harald Mieg, Spokesman of Simmel Center (introduction); Heike Oevermann, Member of Simmel Center (moderation); Martin Schwegmann, Member of Simmel Center (moderation)
Inputs:
Mathias Heyden, Assistant Professor Technical University Berlin: What are our real values? Community design and participatory architecture as tools for urban sustainability
Paola Alfaro d´Alencon and Daniela Konrad, Assistant Professors Technical University Berlin: Introduction of their Urban Research Camp; Design Laboratory
Magnus Johansson, Assistant Professor at Malmö University: Social innovation and sustainable urban development
Lise Bisballe, lecturer at Roskilde University and social entrepreneur: Introduction of the project socialventures@2200 in Copenhagen
Thomas Bisballe, analyst for the city of Copenhagen: Public actors and the facilitation of social entrepreneurship - How to interact with "the opposition
Levend Kalac, Architect and Master Student, Fachhochschule Frankfurt: Urban development challenges - the case of Norra Sorgenfri
Prof. Björn Bjerke,
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Reflections on the study trip from Karl Palmås: The ”post-productive” is the productive
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Vortrag Open Source Urbanismus
17.04.2008, 19:00 Uhr
Stadtteilbüro, Warschauer Straße 23, Berlin
Lecture about the theory and practice of participatory urban development
with Martin Schwegmann, Architect and Town Planner, urbanpassion
"Local players shape their city. The city becomes an open source code, which can be developed by everyone. By now this kind of city adds on to Berlin's image substantially. How can this development be maintained."
Within the framework of the jour fixe of wriezener freiraum labor, part of the research programme Experimental Housing and Urban Development (ExWoSt) of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS)
Vortrag und Diskussion zu Theorie und Praxis partizipatorischer Stadtentwicklung
mit
“Zunehmend gestalten lokale Akteure ihre Stadt. Die Stadt wird zum offenen Quellcode, an dem jeder mit entwickeln kann. Diese Stadt trägt in Berlin inzwischen wesentlich zum Image bei. Wie kann diese Entwicklung erhalten bleiben?”
Im Rahmen des Jour Fixe des Wriezener Freiraumlabors, Teil des Forschungsprogramms Experimenteller Wohnungs- und Städtebau "ExWoSt" des Bundesministeriums für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung.
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Friday, February 29, 2008
Urban Pioneers

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Urban Passion and Metapol published an article about "Zwischennutzung" in the danish weekly newspaper Weekendavisen.
Urban Passion und Metapol publizieren Artikel über Zwischennutzung in der dänischen Wochenzeitung Weekendavisen.
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The berlin based landscape architect Klaus Overmeyer, founder of urban catalyst studio, released a book for the senate for urban development of berlin about the temporary users and uses of buildings and lots, which he calls urban pioneers. He discusses the possibilities and potentials of these informal players for the development of a vibrant and sustainable city. We interviewed him and asked for the actual situation in Berlin and how he compares it to other european cities, which developments he detects.
Further we interviewed Jan Lilliendahl Larsen, part of urban task force/ copenhagen and doing a phd on "urban recycling", and asked him about the situation and potentials for temporary use in copenhagen.
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