Office for Spatial Development and Urban Planning
We work out expert studies and provide strategy advice. We develop and co-design solutions for public authorities and the political sphere as well as for managers of research clusters and creative businesses.
By applying innovative co-creative forms of participation as well as event and workshop formats, we strive towards greater precision in spatial structural change processes in favour of a sustainable society.
Services
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Expert Studies, Site Surveys and Feasibility Analysis
Photo: Florian BüttnerExpert Studies, Site Surveys and Feasibility Analysis
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Creative Labs, Policy Clinics, and Participatory Processes
Photo: Thomas RitterCreative Labs, Policy Clinics, and Participatory Processes
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Urban Mapping and Regional Management
Urban Mapping and Regional Management
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Impulses, Facilitation and Keynote Presentations
Impulses, Facilitation and Keynote Presentations
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Expertise, Analysis and Evaluation
Photo: Bastian LangeExpertise, Analysis and Evaluation
Selected Projects
Study report for the reuse of the Chapel in the Sheridan Park in Augsburg/Germany
The study develops possible uses for the derelict Chapel in Sheridan Park. The workshop picks up on public welfare-oriented needs from the surrounding area and the city of Augsburg. Unmet needs and potential for young adults, families and senior citizens will be identified.
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Creative industries promote transformation
The great challenges of our time also require adjustments from many companies in Brandenburg: new strategies, business models and processes are often needed. In a working lab, creative people, entrepreneurs and transformation experts develop approaches on how to collaborate.
Client: Ministry of Economy, Labour, and Energy Brandenburg
Feasibility Study on Urban Gardening and Indoor Farming in the Innercity of Wilhelmshaven
Wilhelmshaven wants to counteract the inner-city vacancy by Urban Gardening and Vertical Farming. Together with paper planes e.V. and the AAA GmbH from Bremen, we are examining location conditions and utilization options. Citizens should participate and become consumers.
Client: City of Wilhelmshaven
Feasibility study for a market hall in the “Neue Mitte Garbsen”.
The concept study aims to anchor the cross-cultural topic of food in the Neue Mitte Garbsen. The results of the mapping of regional market and development potentials, the expert interviews with regional producers were able to identify high potentials and target groups for regionally produced food.
Client: City of Garbsen
German “Baukulturpolitik” in the European context. Guidelines for “Baukultur” in Germany
The aim of this project is to draw up the guidelines for "Baukultur" in Germany: as a key document, it will formulate the federal government's position on "Baukultur". The guidelines aim to describe goals, fields of action and needs as well as concrete tasks in the field of "Baukultur" in Germany.
Client: BBSR (Bonn) in Cooperation with Inpolis Urbanism GmbH
BMBF Project InCAREgio in Brandenburg
The InCAREgio project (INnovative Arrangements for Provision in the "CAre and Care Sector in Structurally Weak REGIOns") is working in the Märkisch-Oderland region to determine the prerequisites and conditions for innovative coping strategies for the care crisis as a model.
Client: BMBF Project in cooperation with Humboldt University Berlin (Prof. Dr. H. Nuissl)