Office for Spatial Development and Urban Planning

Multiplicities are experts for participatory driven urban and spatial development. Our research and consulting offers orientation to public institutions and creative companies. As a European network, Multiplicities is based in Berlin.

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

Selected Projects

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“100m Zukunft”. A real-world laboratory promotes ‘urban innovations’ in Berlin

What does the street space need to be fit for the future? How does it need to change in order to meet the challenges of tomorrow? With the ‘100m Future’ project, the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants to develop innovative solutions for urban infrastructure together with neighbourhoods, science, companies, start-ups and civil society.

Client: IHK (Industrie- und Handelskammer) Berlin

Creative Lab ‘Pioneers.Design.Forest’ in Lübeck

In a one-day creative lab, solutions were developed in small teams and with the help of the Multiplicities Toolkit. On the one hand, to the question of what more the near-natural forest can do and, on the other, to the challenge of the "Aspen Container" as a transformation site. How can it become an advocate for the pioneers?

Client: Naturwald Akademie Lübeck

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Transformation potential of large-scale parking lots for sustainable urban restructuring

The project aims to develop a methodologically sound, spatially specific and transferable recording, classification and evaluation of large-scale parking areas. On the other hand, solutions are to be developed for different types of parking lots with regard to the diverse usage options.

Client: Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR)

Utilisation concept for the Chapel in Sheridan Park in Augsburg

The study develops utilisation options for the derelict Chapel in Sheridan Park. The workshop addresses the needs of the neighbourhood and the city of Augsburg that are oriented towards the common good.

Client: City of Augsburg (Urban planning office)

Creative industry promotes transformation

The major challenges of our time also require many companies in Brandenburg to adapt: new strategies, business models and processes are often needed and creativity is required! In a working lab, creative minds, entrepreneurs and transformation experts develop approaches to make collaboration more frequent and fruitful.

Client: Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Energy in Brandenburg

Feasibility study on urban gardening and indoor farming in the city centre of Wilhelmshaven

Wilhelmshaven wants to use urban gardening and vertical farming to tackle the vacant space in the city centre. Together with paper planes e.V. and AAA GmbH in Bremen, we are examining site conditions and utilisation options. Citizens should participate and also become users of the products.

Client: City of Wilhelmshaven