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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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Project Brief – Showing One's Colors

More and more people are "on the way“. They leave their homes, their villages and their cities, in search of a better future. These migration flows take place in Senegal too and raise many questions... more

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Project Brief – Banlieue en Banlieues

Senegal's banlieues are sprawling. These suburbs, often forgotten by the outside world, are urban-worlds onto themselves, each with their own inherent logic, of which very little is known... more

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Weltstadt exhibition in Mexico City

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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

Looking back: Weltstadt in Berlin

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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

Social Development in Ulaanbaatar

Radical political changes and natural disasters have drastically influenced Mongolia’s social development over the last century. more

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Weltstadt Newspaper: Bangalore

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Weltstadt Newspaper: Seoul

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Impressions from Seoul's Changsumaeul

This video was shot by Weltstadt correspondent Malte Kollenberg while he was visiting Changsumaeul – the Village of Long Life. more

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Summing Up – Findings and Perspectives of the Urban Incubator: Belgrade

After a busy and fruitful programme year 2013, it´s time to sum up the Urban Incubator: Belgrade experience and to tell the whole story. more

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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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Weltstadt Newspaper: We-Traders

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Listening to the Indian Crowd

The crowdsourcing platform Nextbangalore is host to a lot of discussions on urban development in one of the fastest growing cities in the world. The contradiction between modernity and acceptance, between people’s own culture and global urban planning, is motor to most inputs.

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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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Weltstadt Newspaper: Belgrade

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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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Casa do Povo – A Center for City-Making

We spoke with Benjamin Seroussi, curator and cultural manager at Casa do Povo, about its position in the neighborhood of Bom Retiro in São Paulo and its role as a political and cultural institution in enforcing and channeling the power of the public. 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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Casa do Povo

Casa do Povo will host Nós Brasil! We Brazil!, the German contribution to the X Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo. The research of Nós Brasil! We Brazil! deails with current practices of city-making in Brazil and links it to Casa do Povo's rich history as a forum for political participation...
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Nós, Brasil! We, Brazil! – The Making of the Salvador Y-Table

Invited artists/architect Luis Berríos-Negrón reports about the making of the Porto Alegre Y-Table, which will be used for the two-day workshop on the future of Alagados and Dois de Julho in Salvador... more

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Nós, Brasil! We, Brazil! – The Making of the Porto Alegre Y-Table

Invited artists/architect Luis Berríos-Negrón reports about the making of the Porto Alegre Y-Table, which will be used for the two-day workshop on the future of the Bairro Farrapos, a vila in Porto Alegre... more

The Y-Table: a Semiotic Object for Local Action

During the Nós Brasil! We Brazil! project a series of Y-Tables will be collectively programmed and produced with local participants and materials in three different cities. But what is the idea behind these tables?.. more

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The Making of the Curitiba Y-Table

Invited artists/architect Luis Berríos-Negrón reports about the making of the Curitiba Y-Table, which will be used for the two-day workshop on the future of Curitiba... 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 – Vila Planetário

Vila Planetário 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 – 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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“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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"Informal Studio: Marlboro South" – the NGO's and City's Perspective

This video documents the NGO's and city's perspective and portrays the involved individuals of "Informal Studio: Marlboro South" more

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Making Sense of Informality

Ares Kalandides, a blogger from Inpolis, reflects on the different meanings and aspects of informality... 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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The (In)formal Cities: Johannesburg and Berlin

During the interview with Weltstadt correspondent Dagmar Hoetzel, the project coordinators Anne Graupner (26’10 South Architects) and Alex Opper (University of Johannesburg) speak about their new project – a collaboration with students and young professionals from Berlin and Johannesburg.... more

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"Informal Studio: Marlboro South" – The University's and Architects' Perspective

This video documents the University of Johannesburg's perspective and portrays the initiators from 26'10 South Architects. more

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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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The Informal Studio: Marlboro South

The need for suitably experienced professionals, community planners and officials who can engage in a process of participative planning is becoming increasingly urgent. As a response to therefrom-arising challenges, the informal studio: Marlboro South, a course on in-situ upgrading was developed... more

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"Informal Studio: Marlboro South" – The Students' Perspective

This video documents the University of Johannesburg students' perspective and portrays their engagement with the community planners of Marlboro South. more

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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Visiting the Informal Studio: Marlboro South

The informal settlement Marlboro South is located in northern Johannesburg, near Sandton, sub-Saharan Africa’s most powerful economic hub, and was a typical buffer zone in apartheid planning... 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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"Informal Studio: Marlboro South" – the Community's Perspective

This video documents the community's perspective and portrays the involved individuals of "Informal Studio: Marlboro South" more

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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Marlboro South – Interview with the Community Planners

Weltstadt Correspondent Dagmar Hoetzel interviews Marlboro South's community planners during her visit to the informal settlement... 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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