neighborhood lab

Winterfest

Last week, we have presented the projection from the Pinpointing Mehringplatz at the Neighborhood Event ‘Winterfest’ in Mehringplatz. During the event, neighbors had the chance to add their comments to the pictures and previously collected entries. Was a lot of fun! Our next
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Interview with Efrat Meyer/Yad Be Yad Jerusalem

We are glad to share an interview with Efrat Meyer, who will be one of the speakers at the Community Now Symposium in February. Efrat will talk about her work and challenges as a community organizer at the Jewish-Arab School Yad Be Yad in Jerusalem – also regarding the changes
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Symposium and Exhibition

We are happy to invite you to the concluding symposium and exhibition of the project Community Now? project, taking place in Berlin from 19th – 21st Feb 2015. More details can be found here.
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Pinpointing Mehringplatz

These days several meetings with inhabitants of the Mehringplatz neighborhood will take place. With a new application prototype we will first stroll through the neighborhood photographing and describing positive, negative and alterable places or situations. After the walk all
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Students exchange and Long Table Event

In June, our partners from the Bezalel Academy visited us in Berlin, where we had several workshops, a rich program and a Long Table Event. There where project presentations, discussions and workshops on concepts of Living Lab. With guests from different disciplines as ethnology,
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Cultural probe

During the last study trip, the students gathered with a new cultural probe tool unexpected insights and a good basis for discussion, analyses and research. The results will be discussed in a follow up and presented at the exhibition and symposium of “Community Now?”
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New Neighborhood Lab: Mehringplatz Berlin

The launch of our new “Community Now” workspace at MadaMe (Mehringplatz 8/9) with the Workshop De-Routing, lead by Michelle Christensen and Florian Conradi. “Community Now?” is supported by: Deutsch-Israelisches Zukunftsforum (DIZF) and MadaMe am
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Paper: Neighborhood Labs – Community Building through Knowledge Transfer

Andreas Unteidig, Florian Sametinger, Jennifer Schubert, Max Schäth, Veronika Aumann, Gesche Joost DRS Conference 2012, Bangkok, Thailand; 08/2012
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