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
Photo: Thomas RitterImpulses, Facilitation and Keynote Presentations
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Expertise, Analysis and Evaluation
Photo: Bastian LangeExpertise, Analysis and Evaluation
Selected Projects
How can Braunschweig further expand its innovation ecosystem?
With STADTart, we are supporting the City of Braunschweig's Department of Economic Affairs with the study “Innovation ecosystem and evaluation of cultural and creative industries funding”. Within this framework, the interface between the cultural and creative industries and the innovation ecosystem and start-up system is being analyzed and a platform strategy is being developed.
Client: Department of economic development Braunschweig
“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
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