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Project Brief – The Old Village of Changsu Maeul

Changsu Maeul is nestled under the old city wall of Seoul. Rather than abandoning their small and basic houses, the inhabitants of Changsu Maeul decided to stay and upgrade their decaying buildings and to redevelop their neighborhood... more

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Project Brief – Urban Incubator: Belgrade

The Urban Incubator Belgrade is a project culturally contributing to the re-development of a neglected urban quarter... more

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Project Brief – The NextBangalore Space

As of today, the future of the city of Bangalore is unknown. The city’s challenges are enormous, as are the opportunities. NextBangalore thus brings the concept of crowd-sourcing urban future to Indian cities... more

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Project Brief – We-Traders. Swapping Crisis for City

We-Traders will connect initiatives from distinct urban contexts across five European countries. In Lisbon, Madrid, Turin, Toulouse and Berlin the crisis manifests different facets from empty coffers and social polarization to a lack of civic sense as a result of excessive growth. The project will focus on... more

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Weltstadt exhibition in Mexico City

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Weltstadt exhibition in Copenhagen

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A playground for the children of Yarmag

As part of the NOMAD CITY project, a public playground for the children of Yarmag was created. more

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Weltstadt Exhibition in Bangalore

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NOMAD CITY Summer School 2014

The NOMAD CITY Summer School 2014 was organized through a cooperation of the Mongolian University of Science and Technology and the Technische Universität Berlin. more

Cities and Citizenship New York

This video gives an insight into the Cities and Citizenship Conference held in March 2014 in New York City. more

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Looking back: Weltstadt in Berlin

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Weltstadt Newspaper: New York

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Cities and Citizenship Interviews

Interviews conducted during the Cities and Citizenship conference in New York. more

Interview with CRIT Mumbai

CRIT* develops responses to the rapidly changing urban realm, which the group perceives as having no boundaries and requiring fundamentally different methods of interrogation. more

Urban Developments in Dakar

The urbanism of French colonialism has left its mark on Dakar’s urban culture to this day. more

Weltstadt Newspaper: Bangalore

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Weltstadt Newspaper: Ulaanbaatar

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Weltstadt Newspaper: Seoul

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Weltstadt Newspaper: Riga

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Urban-Rural. Rural-Urban

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Weltstadt Newspaper: Johannesburg

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Spatial Patterns in a Nomadic Lifestyle

The first step from nomadic life towards permanent settlements is an act of space making... more

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The Bangalore Change Map

The first Bangalore Change Map is out! The map shows the results from the first phase of nextBangalore – a crowd-sourced city vision for future Bangalore! more

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The Long-Lived Ones

Weltstadt Correspondent Malte Kollenberg visits Seoul's Changsumaeul – the Village of Long Life. more

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"There is no ideal city"

Weltstadt Curator Angelika Fitz in interview

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Weltstadt Newspaper: We-Traders

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Interview with Urban Incubator Curator Tim Rieniets

Urban Incubator Curator Tim Rieniets talks about the Urban Incubator:Belgrade and explains the intentions behind the project... more

Our Madrid!

How can different stakeholders, above all the younger generation, bring about changes that herald a comprehensive societal transformation in the Spanish capital? more

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Lisbon's Obstinacy

How can Lisbon's citizens prevent the architectural and social decay of their city? Who is making Lisbon today, and for tomorrow? more

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Swapping Crisis for City: A New Approach to City-Making in Lisbon

An interview with Julia Albani, co-curator for the Lisbon chapter of the Weltstadt project “We-Traders. Swapping Crisis for City”. more

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Notes from We-Traders Forums

Everybody is talking about the crisis, but how is it actually manifested? Have cities changed? Where do We-Traders come from and what unites them? In October 2013, the We-Traders community worked on this at forums in Lisbon, Madrid, Turin and Toulouse. Here are a few pickings from our notes. more

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We-Traders Turin Ground

Over the past decade, Turin has experienced profound changes to its urban structure. By transforming itself from an industrial city into a place of culture, it gained a significant position on the Italian and European scene and the result of this extensive transformation is a new urban model… more

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We-Traders Madrid Ground

The City of Madrid presently offers a highly stimulating challenge to its inhabitants. It is experiencing a time of deep economic and identity crisis, thus a unique opportunity in which to reflect on their future with community leaders … more

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We-Traders Lisbon Ground

We-Traders Lisbon features several urban players who, in spite of unemployment and no public contract as urban protagonists, are looking for creative solutions, often arising from existential and social need... more

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NextBangalore – The Rise of the Urban Studio

The NextBangalore Space is both: a method and a meeting room. For nearly all visitors it’s the first time to experience an urban studio that provides the possibility to share their ideas and visions for a future Bangalore... more

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Unclaimed Spaces in Bangalore

An observation on anthills, religious shrines and how space in Bangalore is incrementally being encroached... more

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Nós, Brasil! We, Brazil! – Porto Alegre's Local Curator Márcio Rosa D'Avila

In Porto Alegre, Márcio Rosa D'Avila launched the Nós Brasil! We Brazil! workshop series with a debate on the history of orçamento participativo, which seems to be in conflict with current efforts towards economic growth... more

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Nós, Brasil! We, Brazil! – Salvador's Local Curator Ícaro Vilaça

Architect and urbanist Ícaro Vilaça is the local curator of Nós Brasil! We Brazil! in Salvador. Taking an activist approach towards tackling the issue of the ‘right to the city’ he invited neighborhood associations and local planners to the workshop series examining the neighborhoods of Dois de Julho and Alagados. more

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Nós, Brasil! We, Brazil! Case Study – Bairro Farrapos

Bairro Farrapos represents one of the three case studies that were used to illustrate the conflict between orçamento participativo and current efforts towards economic growth in Porto Alegre... more

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Nós, Brasil! We, Brazil! Case Study – Condomínio dos Anjos

Condomínio dos Anjos represents one of the three case studies that were used to illustrate the conflict between orçamento participativo and current efforts towards economic growth in Porto Alegre... more

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Visiting the Urban Incubator

Weltstadt Correspondent Anna Hohler visits the Urban Incubator: Belgrade, a project that offers Western European visitors an amazing lesson in urban development even today... more

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“The Spirit Of The Place Is Different From Any Other” – An Interview with Goethe-Guerilla Anita Knezic

Goethe-Guerilla Anita talks about her encounter both with young people from the Goethe Guerilla and their activities in Savamala which changed her perspectives on life completely... more

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Empty Spaces Workshop

Following the invitation of the Goethe-Institut Riga to this tour through the projects, all of the participants gathered on 11 June 2013 for a workshop... more

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Savamala – A City-Quarter Reinvents Itself

Savamala is economically underdeveloped and socially disadvantaged, and has a reputation as a home to outcasts, prostitution, and criminality. However... more

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Empty Spaces – the Kanepes Cultural Centre

To take the future into one's own hands – that's the guiding principle for the Kanepes Cultural Centre (KKC) in a quiet side-street of Riga...
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Nextsavamala – Crowdsourcing a City Vision

How do the citizens of Belgrade envisage the future of Savamala? What are their ideas? And how can those ideas be realized? Nextsavamala supports the citizens of Belgrade to develop their own vision for Savamala through a web-based public forum and workshops... more

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Urban Incubator: The School of Urban Practices

How can the future of a city be designed when there are no financial means for investment, when legal issues remain unclarified, and when institutional procedures are slow? The project “School for Urban Practices” will research.... more

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Urban Incubator: Bureau Savamala

How can artistic projects influence urban development? Art theoreticians and sociologists from Belgrade and Zurich will be carrying out research into the influence of the Urban Incubator: Belgrade project on Savamala... more

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Empty Spaces – RIXC Association for Media Art

In the warehouse next door to kim?, yet another cultural initiative has settled in. RIXC is the name of the association for media art and also part of the project Empty Spaces... more

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Empty Spaces – kim? Art Association

Improvization and do-it-yourself are out of question for Zane Onckule and Linda Pavluta. Their art association kim? is another project that takes part in the project Empty Spaces... more

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Savamala's Local Hero

When the Goethe-Guerilla first met with residents in Savamala, Miroslav Marinkovic very quickly became their “local hero” – born and raised in Savamala, he knew all the history and the stories of the place... more

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Empty Spaces – Total Dobźe

Next stop on the tour through Riga's Empty Spaces projects: Total Dobźe... more

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Interview with Urban Incubator Project Manager Matthias Mueller-Wieferig

The Director of the Goethe-Institut Belgrade, Dr. Matthias Mueller-Wieferig, explains the Goethe Institute's approach to the Urban Incubator:Belgrade...
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Empty Spaces – Tabakas Fabrika

The Goethe Institute Riga invited to a tour through the projects of Empty Spaces. First stop: Tabakas Fabrika... more

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Urban Incubator: Public Design Support

Designing our environment always involves a social dimension, as it creates new relationships between various actors: people that are responsible and people that are affected, experts and ordinary citizens, representatives of pro and contra... more

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Cultural Repurposing of Vacant Commercial Buildings – The Project “Empty Spaces”

The current development in Riga is much affected by its history that has left the city with a plethora of abandoned commercial spaces. Today, it's artists who are pioneering in this – largely informal – process of urban appropriation... more

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Urban Incubator: Goethe Guerillas

The fourth generation of the Goethe-Guerillas have now taken up their position as artists and creators at the Goethe-Institut Belgrad; and just like previous Guerilla generations since 2010, they are extremely interested in Savamala and its residents... more

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Urban Incubator: 'We also Love the Art of Others'

Savamala has, throughout its history, been a place for trade, international exchange and encounters. But today, Savamala is isolated – a remote and inaccessible space in the middle of the city. Using the title “We also Love the Art of Others”, we would like to re-vitalize the traditional role of Savamala, inviting artists of different origins and positions to again enter into dialogue in this city quarter. more

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Urban Incubator: Micro Factories

Micro-Factories will create new production facilities that transform the knowledge, capacities, and ideas of Savamala into innovative products in new, small production plants. more

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So This is Savamala! Day Four...

Since her arrival, not a day has gone by without Anna Hohler, Weltstadt Correspondent for Belgrade, visiting KC Grad at least once... more

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So This is Savamala! Day Three..

On Anna's third day in Savamala, she encounters the Bureau Savamala, the observation post for both the Urban Incubator projects as well as for other events occurring in Savamala... more

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So This is Savamala! Day Two...

Day two of Anna Hohler's visit in Savamala: she meets up with the initiators of the architecture magazine Camenzind... more

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So This is Savamala! Day One...

Anna Hohler traveled as Weltstadt correspondent to Belgrade. In her first report she let's us take part in the moment of arrival in Savamala... more

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