LEARNING FROM … Haus der Statistik (Berlin)

The courage of others: How does "doing cities differently" work?

Practitioners and pioneers show how cooperative urban development can work. Together with them, we want to explore how Kreativlabor München, and creative centers and urban development initiatives in general, can be organized and survive independently, collaboratively and for the common good in the long term. The event sees itself as an open space for dreaming, visioning and free speculation! We invite you to a get-together at the end of the event.

Free admission, but we ask you to "buy" a ticket and register for the event. Thank you!

Procedure:

• 15 min Input: Status Quo BottomUp. Working sustainably together! and Labor e. V. (Munich)
• 45 min input: Learning from...-guest
• 60 min Open fishbowl - discussion: the separation between stage and room is removed - every voice is invited to actively think the lab forward
• Get together with music and drinks

Objectives and target group: Stakeholders on the premises of the Munich Creative Lab, as well as SMEs oriented towards the common good, other creative centers, urban development initiatives.

As part of BottomUp. Working together sustainably! Curated and moderated by Laura Bruns, Team stadtstattstrand. The series will end with a final symposium, probably in April 2027, followed by a brochure with the most important learnings and take-aways.

Kick-off 26.02.2026: LEARNING FROM ... House of Statistics (Berlin)

Model case for cooperative urban development: In the middle of Berlin's Alexanderplatz, the Haus der Statistik shows how a civic-public partnership works. On 65,000 m², a place for art, social affairs and housing oriented towards the common good is being created here.

Konrad Braun, CEO of Zusammenkunft eG, sheds light on how to counter economic pressure with new sponsorship models and forge strategic alliances with politicians without losing one's own identity. An encouragement for the creative lab: how to turn vision into practice.

Vitas:

Konrad Braun is co-founder and board member of openBerlin e.V., the Haus der Statistik initiative and ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG. He has been involved in participatory urban development since 2012 with the aim of achieving a more community-oriented approach to public and private land. As a freelance architect, project developer and urban researcher, he works transdisciplinarily on the topics of urbanity, society, culture, politics, law and economics. A particular focus of his work is on the transfer of knowledge between complex legal matters and low-threshold appropriation of space and passes on the knowledge gained in the form of lectures, workshops and studies to interested city dwellers, non-profit companies and politics, administration and science. Since 2021, he has also been a lecturer for project development and real estate economics at the FH Aachen.

Laura Bruns is a designer and media manager with a focus on design strategies, research-based practice and curatorial urban mediation. In her work at the interface of cultural urban development and strategic planning, she understands design as a model for social transformation processes. As co-founder of Team stadtstattstrand and as a lecturer and project manager in urban development projects oriented towards the common good, she has built up numerous networks, taught methods and designed creative approaches to the city.

Contact:

Team stadtstattstrand: Laura Bruns, Konrad Braun, Julia Klink, Leona Lynen

The interdisciplinary stadtstattstrand team researches and communicates strategies and approaches to user-driven urban development in texts, exhibitions, workshops and unconventional discussions.

stadtstattstrand
Creative approach to urban space
Laura Bruns
laura[at]stadtstattstrand.de

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Organizer:

Labor e.V. München connects those 16 organizations with over 600 users who are involved in Kreativlabor München, a model project for user-driven organizations in art, culture, education and social affairs. Together with BECHLER Kollaborationsberatung Rechtsanwalts-GmbH with many years of experience in collaborative organizational and cooperation structures, we are BottomUp. A sustainable impact together! Over 18 months, we design and run - co-creatively with our participants according to the BottomUp principle - a development, knowledge and community program and empower teams to set their own development goals, build skills, make connections and boldly tackle change - with clearly rhythmic online and offline inputs and workshops, panels and external impulses, mentoring, moderation and reliable documentation.

A project of the program "Nachhaltig wirken - Förderung gemeinwohlorientierter Unternehmen", which is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the European Union via the ESF Plus.