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What´s next? How can we co-design collaborative solutions to help makerspaces in times of pandemic?

What are practical measures and approaches for policy makers post-Covid to help build innovative solutions? An intermediate comment by Susy Silva (Lisbon), Dr. Steve Harding (Birmingham City University) and Dr. Bastian Lange (University of Leipzig) after six months of global pandemic. The text is a proposal how to co-design collaborative solutions for makerspaces in Europe.

What´s next? How can we co-design collaborative solutions to help makerspaces in times of pandemic?

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Cultural interface projects – digital placemaking strategies of the city of Mannheim (Germany).

The city of Mannheim is widely known in Europe for its progressive culture and creative industries eco systems. But how to adept running cultural and creative interface projects in times of pandemic? We reach out to Dr. Matthias Rauch, Cultural Creative Officer at Startup Mannheim, to interview him on city´s  digital placemaking strategies in times of Covid-19.

Cultural interface projects – digital placemaking strategies of the city of Mannheim (Germany).

Foto: Bastian Lange

Youth in times of Covid-19: Where are the spaces for young adults?

How are young adults doing in times of Covid-19 and the restrictions it imposes? Dr. Bastian Lange comments from a spatial point of view on their living conditions and pleads for more niches and experimental spaces to be made available for young people in the city as well as in the countryside.

Youth in times of Covid-19: Where are the spaces for young adults?

Foto: Beatriz Bagulho (https://www.beatrizbagulho.com)

The arts approach to incubation spaces: and why do we need them?

When Susy Silva, Co-Editor of the blog, asked Beatriz Bagulho to visually translate her thoughts about her workplace, what it could be, she only made one request: make it utopian.

The arts approach to incubation spaces: and why do we need them?