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
Photo: Lange/OvermeyerUrban 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
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
Feasability study creative quarter Potsdam
Die Machbarkeitsstudie leistet einen Beitrag zum geplanten Kreativquartier und analysiert die Bausteine, Argumente, Chancen, Risiken und Kosten, um der Stadtpolitik, der Verwaltung, den jetzigen und künftigen Nutzer*innen sowie den Potsdamer*innen ein Angebot für eine neues, tragfähiges, von vielen Schultern getragenes Kreativquartier zu machen.
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