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The third public conversation of the Switch On Mehringplatz program involves the activists of Prinzessinnengarten to discuss the capacity of bottom-up voluntary projects to foster urban transformation. What skills and competences are formed and shared in spontaneous citizens’ initiatives? How

The third Urban reconnaissance Lab will be dedicatd to the exploration of the Spontaneous City, focusing on those everyday life practices that challenge rules and normative powers. We will look for all those manifestations that appear contingent, unplanned and exist

Platform Coops sind neue Formen von digitalen Genossenschaften, die alle Mitglieder zu Teilhabenden und Gestaltenden der gemeinsamen Arbeit macht. Die „Steuerzentrale“ eines solches Verbundes ist eine digitale Plattform, über die nicht nur Transaktionen und Kommunikationen laufen, sondern auch gemeinsame Entscheidungen

You are invited to a day-long seminar about feminist economics, the practice-- not the social science. To contrast conventional academic formats for learning and convening, this seminar is twisted into the form of a free experimental yoga retreat, led by

by Tesserae Urban Social Research How do we reconnect different perceptions of a neighbourhood in a common view? This will be the starting question for a laboratory of collaborative neighbourhood-mapping coordinated by Stefan Göllner and Jan Lindenberg of Place/Making Berlin.

Public conversation with Kathrin Wildner, Christian Hanussek and Erwin Riedmann of metroZones. The next public conversation of the Switch On Mehringplatz program presents the manifold experience of the metroZones collective in urban research, art and education. metroZones will present some

The team of Tesserae Urban Social Research has invited social designers Stefan Göllner and Jan Lindenberg of place/making Berlin for an exercise of collaborative neighbourhood mapping.

Following up on our PLATFORM COOPS - START YOUR OWN!  event from December 9-10, 2016 we look forward to welcoming members of platform coops in Berlin and beyond. This morning meeting is a chance for us to share our plans

A research team from Lund University in cooperation with SUPERMARKT Berlin has invited stakeholders for a workshop exploring the link between waste prevention and urban sharing organisations in the city of Berlin. The workshop aims at identifying potential roles the

How do we capture different voices of a community in a shared narrative framework? Dear friends of Switch On Mehringplatz, on Saturday April 22 at 2 pm the next StoryLab „Collecting Stories“ will take place at SUPERMARKT, where we employ

Wer sich für offene, digitale Bildung engagiert und gerne unterrichtet / entwickelt / gestaltet / schreibt / ist herzlich eingeladen, Teil des edulabs Berlin zu werden und diesen offenen Raum mit aufzubauen. Wir stellen das Projekt vor, besprechen das Konzept,

+++ COMPLETELY BOOKED! Sign up for waiting list: rsvp@supermarkt-berlin.net +++ As the global financial crisis proceeds, not only the capitalist system is being questioned, but also money itself. More and more people start to explore alternative metrics for value transactions,

A workshop on the social re-organization of emerging technologies and their distribution according to community standards. Together with you, we want to find out more about the potential of cooperativism in today’s digital ecosystems. What are the issues we need

Urban Sketches - StoryLab #4

On Saturday 15 July 2017 will be the last Urban Reconnaissance workshop, dedicated to designing a narrative neighbourhood walk. How can the practice of walking be used to understand the identity of a place and to represent the spatial milieu?

The facilitators of this workshop have been supporting non-hierarchical organisations for more than five years, starting with the Occupy Movement in 2011, then co-founding Loomio (a worker co-op building software for collective decision-making) and Enspiral (a network of 250 tech

Gil Cohen, a curator and cultural manager with years of experience in the interface between cultural and social organisations, is hosting a public reading group that will look into the term “invitation”. What is the role of invitation in participatory

Am 14.9. erscheint das Buch "workhacks”! Die Autor_innen werden an dem Abend einige Bücher verlosen, es wird eine Lesung aus dem Buch geben und eine kleine Einführung zu den workhacks. Und dann freuen wir uns vor allem darauf, mit euch

A conference by our friends from Tesserae Urban Social Research group: Learning from Context. Social Competence from Local Knowledge. 22-23 September 2017, aquarium (Südblock), Admiralstraße 6, 10999 Berlin Keynote: Prof. Michael Edwards (UCL Bartlett School/ JustSpace London) Check the program

During the workshop we would like to concentrate on an ideation process of a product or a service using artistic strategies and creative approach as an incentive leading to innovation. Entrepreneurs, designers, artists, engineers and marketers who are interested in