Urban, non-urban, local, regional and international projects
Multiplicities analyses and translates microtrends for the benefit of cultural policies, civil society, urban planning and business promotion. We supports administrative and political entities, cluster managers and creative enterprises in defining and implementing their strategic processes. We see ourselves as intermediaries and cultural translators.
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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)
GLAMMONS EU Horizon 2020 Project
The GLAMMONS project aims to provide answers to the post-pandemic challenges of galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMS). At the core is the question of how the experiencd knowledge of community-led GLAMs can be transferred to more "established" and traditional cultural institutions.
Client: Horizon 2020 (Project partner Inpolis Urbanism GmbH)
Feasibility study for a creative quarter in Rostock
The subject of the study is the evaluation of possible locations for a new creative quarter in the Hanseatic City of Rostock. An evaluation basis is made for five given location alternatives that are available for selection. The results propose a justified preferred variant to the city council.
Client: Urban development of the city of Rostock
Usability study on the ULPA area (Berlin)
The usability study in the ULAP quarter analyses how utilisation expectations and utilisation possibilities correspond with the currently recognisable offers of the design planning. The aim of the plausibility check is to test out relevant user types and "mirror" them on the current urban design.
Client: Senat for urban development Berlin
Post-pandemic Spaces – Scope, needs and recovery potentials in our cities
For FORBA GmbH in Vienna, we point out post-pandemic spatial needs. We show which spaces will be relevant in cities in the future and how they can be conceived.
Client: Forba GmbH Vienna
Design sprint with international scholars and practitioners at Villa Vigoni (Italy)
Can we re-build and reinvent our inner cities post-covid-19? Is it enough to refill empty shops with new shops? What type of mixed use, common or open spaces are needed to make our cities attractive for many social groups? What spaces are needed to support innovation and creativity in our cities?
Client: Villa Vigoni
Communication compass for the Alte Münze (Berlin)
The Alte Münze in the center of the capital Berlin is to become a socio-cultural place in the sense of a public welfare-oriented urban development. A strategic communication concept "Communication Compass" is being developed for Kulturraum Berlin GmbH and all project participants.
Client: Kulturraum GmbH
Post-Corona City – Reorientation of Inner City Development in Kiel
For the Kiel Economic Development Agency, we are developing spatial profiles for the post-pandemic "reprogramming" of Kiel's inner city.
Client: Kiel-Marketing
Study report on “New Startup spaces in Stuttgart”
What types of startup centers and incubators does Stuttgart need? We analyze potentials of start-ups strategies and measures with which new technology and start-up centers can be established for Stuttgart. We accompany Stuttgart on their path of spatial and economic transformations.
Client: Office for Urban Planning and Housing, Stuttgart
Revitalisation of inner-city spaces? A digital Hackathon provides solutions
Multiplicities is designing and moderating a "digital hackathon" for the EU Interreg project "CINEMA" in 2020-21. The results will be exhibited in public space and invite the city's residents to in turn add to them, comment on them and negotiate them further as a city community.
Client: Hochschule der Medien / Wirtschaftsregion Stuttgart
Location development Stadtgut Hellersdorf
With Belius GmbH and Studio Malta, we support Gesobau's location development in the Hellersdorf city district (Hellersdorf-Marzahn district). We carry out a plausibility check of the management, user and operator concept.
Client: Gesobau AG
Feasibility study for a Start-up Hub in Potsdam
Multiplicities, together with Belius GmbH, Studio Malta and architect Nele Zareh, is working on a feasibility study for a planned Start-up Hub in the media city of Babelsberg/Potsdam. It contains an analysis of the potential of "founders" in ICT, media and creative industries.
Client: Zentrum für Film- und Fernsehproduzenten GmbH (ZFF)
Management of flexible spaces on the Gaswerk in Augsburg
Multiplicities manages the strategy development for new flexible spaces on the Gaswerk in Augsburg (Germany). Gasworks Labs integrate users and neighbors and thus ensure gradual acceptance and participation. From 2021, flexible rooms are to be built and made available for use.
Client: Stadtwerke Augsburg (swa)
The geography of New Working Spaces and the impact on the periphery
The geography of New Working Spaces and the impact on the periphery. The aim of the COST Action is to share the first outcomes of some funded international research projects on the phenomenon of new workplaces.
Client: EU COST
Case Clinic in Hamburg
In cooperation with Actors of Urban Change, Multiplicities was facilitating a case clinic at Kraftwerk Bille. 25 artists work in this factory complex from the late 19th century, located in Hammerbrook. Will artists and creative people have affordable spaces for non-commercial, cultural, public use?
Client: Actors of Urban Change / Robert Bosch Stiftung
Urban Design Thinking Challenge
Multiplicities facilitated an Urban Design Thinking Challenge together with Dr. Demet Mutman (Ozyegin University Istanbul) during the festival “Allez Hop!”. International workshop participants applied a bottom-up strategy to activate the Multihalle in Mannheim.
Client: Stadt Mannheim
Machbarkeitsstudie Kreativquartier Potsdam
At the Alte Feuerwache / Plantage, the "former Rechenzentrum", an attempt is being made to assemble art, culture, creative people, founders and trades in a location with a moderate cost structure.
Client: Pro Potsdam GmbH
Urban Encounters in Aksaray (Istanbul)
The workshop "Urban Encounters" was based on a co-productive understanding, it embraces heterogeneity as a valuable source of information. It took place at the 4th IAPS-Network meeting under the title “Istanbul as an Endless Place of Urban Articulation” organized by Özyeğin-Faculty of Architecture a
Client: Özyeğin University Istanbul
Participation. Urbanism. Interaction.
In summer 2018 Multiplicities supported the German-Ukrainian youth exchange "Participation. Urbanism. Interaction". It brought together 20 young participants from Berlin and Chernihiv and promotes discussion about active participation and transformation of public space.
Client: Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (EVZ), Auswärtiges Amt, Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
Co-Create your Kiez!
Multiplicities invited to the "Urban Innovation Lab Neckarstadt-West: Co-create your Kiez!" as part of the design festival Uncover. Together with Mannheimers and guests, observations and moods on the situation of the Neckarstadt-West were developed in film, audio and text.
Client: Kulturelle Stadtentwicklung Mannheim
Internationalizing the Berlin music industry
For the Berlin Music Commission Multiplicities has drafted a vision paper on internationalization of Berlin as important location and destination for music-related industries. From the results, nine precise theses on internationalization were presented in a keynote at Most Wanted: Music.
Client: Berlin Music Commission
Transformation of an industrial wasteland into a creative space
With target group workshops, a policy innovation lab and a master plan for urban development, Multiplicities initiates a user-driven redevelopment of an old industrial area at the gas plant in the inner city of Augsburg.
Client: Stadtwerke Augsburg und Stadt Augsburg
New narratives through inner city neighbourhood initiatives
Multiplicities and Belius GmbH design new narratives for the project development of Flussbad e.V.
Client: Flussbad e.V.
Global Review Report “Urban Manufacturing”
Is manufacturing returning to the city or is it being reinvented in our cities?
Multiplicities is facilitating the City of Birmingham (UK) in joint cooperation with the University of Birmingham on the application, the formulation and rolling out of “Urban Manufacturing".
Client: University of Birmingham (UK), INTERREG EUROPE
New Actors for district development
Multiplicities analyses processes of value creation at the nearly 500 open maker spaces of COWERK – a Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) project.
Client: Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung IÖW, Universität Bremen, Fraunhofer Umsicht, Fraunhofer ISI, Verbund offener Werkstätten (VOW)
New (work) spaces for innovation in rural areas
Multiplicities and Belius GmbH initiate a transformation of technology and business incubators in the counties of Rendsburg and Plön (region of Kiel).
Client: Wirtschaftsförderung der Landkreise Rendsburg-Eckernförder und Plön
Market exploration study – Potentials for creative companies abroad
Multiplicities analyses market potentials for the internationalisation of the German creative industries on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation (BMZ) / Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
Client: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (BMZ) / Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Collaborative work as a driving force in Brandenburg
Multiplicities organises real labs of collaborative working methods.
Client: Ministerium für Arbeit, Soziales, Frauen und Familie des Landes Brandenburg (Europäischer Sozialfond)
SME Creative – How to adequately foster innovation?
Together with Prognos AG, Multiplicities analyses funding models in Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) that support creative innovations in medium-sized enterprises.
Client: BMWi (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie) Berlin
What do young people expect from their city of the future?
Multiplicities conducts future workshops in the BMBF-run project "Future urban spaces for young people".
Client: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit (BMUB), Berlin
Preparation of a master plan for the Berlin/Brandenburg metropolitan region
Multiplicities and Inpolis Urbanism GmbH formulate the strategy for the master plan ICT, media and creative industries for the Berlin/Brandenburg metropolitan region.
Client: ZAB Brandenburg
New centres of growth in the environs of metropolitan areas
Multiplicities organises innovation workshops in Oranienburg. Multiplicities and Inpolis Urbanism GmbH use 'open' and 'cross-' innovation processes to generate new innovations.
Client: Ministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie des Landes Brandenburg, finanziert aus Mitteln des Landes Brandenburg
Local development through knowledge transfer
Students of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW) collaborate with regional companies to solve concerns of the enterprises in innovation workshops.
Client: Hochschule Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin, finanziert durch die IHK Berlin
Participatory elaboration of the cultural strategy for Friedberg (Bavaria)
Multiplicities supports the city of Friedberg and the Cultural Affairs Department in formulating a cultural development concept.
Client: Stadt Friedberg
Strategies for an international creative industry
Multiplicities presents options for the internationalisation of the creative industries to the federal government.
Client: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IfA)
Participatory cultural profiles for the Theatre Augsburg
Participation, analysis and citizen dialogues as a starting point for the formulation of new cultural profiles in Augsburg (Bavaria).
Client: Kulturreferat Augsburg
Creative impulses for deprived neighbourhoods
Multiplicities presents an expertise on neighbourhood development in the Brunnenviertel district (Berlin), together with Belius GmbH.
Client: BUWOG – Meermann GmbH
Location analysis Birmingham City University and medium-sized companies
Multiplicities analyses the economic and socio-cultural environment in Digbeth (Birmingham) with the aim of establishing a creative location there.
Client: Birmingham City University