What's happening in St John's? This church is on a journey at the moment!
It is a journey that (as good journeys go) is a little uncertain. The only thing that is clear is that this is a place where life should be happening, a place where everyone feels at home, regardless of their denomination.
Perhaps there will be climbing between the high walls of the church, perhaps there will be cinema films on Tuesdays and cheese and fruit stalls on the forecourt on Saturdays. Maybe people will dance to salsa music on the steps and play table tennis. One thing is certain: the journey does not take us far away, but brings us closer together. Perhaps it will even bring the whole of Emmendingen closer to this place?

A process design and intervention together with Stadtlücken e.V. for the parish of St. Johannes in Emmendingen.

https://www.in-sankt-johannes.de/

With the CoLiving Campus a cooperative science quarter is being created in Braunschweig that brings together stakeholders and projects from science and urban society in an urban space and invites active participation. Through a cooperative planning process, the city of Braunschweig and the Technische Universität Braunschweig have laid the foundations for a wide range of research projects and real-world laboratories at the CoLiving Campus. Ideas, visions and suggestions were developed in a co-creative participation process as part of the Co_nference and Co_Workshop and have been incorporated into the co-operative Co_Wettbewerb.

https://www.coliving-campus.de/

In my contribution to the IBA StadtRegion Stuttgart International Building Exhibition reader "Voices on the IBA", I show what participation can achieve and why it is important to continue and document it as a permanent instrument: https://www.iba27.de/beteiligung-braucht-einen-ort/

"We are in this together but we are not the same". An urban laboratory that we set up for the 2021 Festival Theaterformen on Raschplatzhochstraße in Hanover. From 8 to 18 July, the city lab hosted over 30 Hanoverian initiatives and works by artists with disabilities and Indigenous artists for eleven days under the motto of climate justice. More than 80 events - including dance workshops, lectures, performances and DJ sets - attracted over 8,400 visitors to the closed high bridge.

The festival centre CLEARING was conceived and constructed by the British architects' collective The DisOrdinary Architecture and the deaf architecture experts Richard Dougherty and Chris Laing. The temporary structure on Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Platz behind the Kleines Haus invited visitors to linger with a bar serving food and drinks, a dance floor for the silent discos and art installations, and was very well received by the public, artists and passers-by.
The design was derived from deaf culture and sign language: the circular arrangements that arise when deaf people come together became a large clearing in the design, which opened up the space for the diversity of people and their realities of life. Large stickers on the floor with slogans by disabled activists also drew attention to the structural conditions of the square, which make it difficult for people with pushchairs, wheelchairs or long canes to cross the square on a daily basis.
I supported Festival Theaterformen and the artists in organising, coordinating and realizing the project and acted as an intermediary between the various actors involved from the fields of art, stage design, technology and city administration.

Built places that can be experienced in everyday life play an important role in the perception of identity and belonging; they express the democratic attitude and orientation in a society and at the same time create diverse opportunities for participation and access.

With a nationwide competition "Built places for democracy and participation", the Wüstenrot Foundation looked for examples of how such places can make democratic values tangible and support the participation opportunities of different population groups. This publication contains further contributions that deal with the complex topic of "Built places for democracy and participation" from different perspectives and expand on the insights gained from the competition.

Kitchen island built out of plywood left over from the International Design Build Summerschool Urban Conflicts in Hanover 2022.

In the urban coexistence of the city, conflict situations are the norm today. Different interests, goals and values ​​ of individuals and social groups meet here. As architects, we want to fight against a self-satisfied discipline that expresses itself as an exclusively affirmative concealment of conflict. Because a spark for the development of the city through architecture can be struck out of urban conflicts. It is crucial to discover the possibilities that lie within and the repertoire to use them. The prerequisite for this is an unbiased view that appreciates the latent poetry of the city.

As part of the international DesignBuild Summer School "Urban Conflicts" at the Institute of Urban Design at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at Leibniz Universität Hannover, we want to use productive urban dissonances and make them visible through architectural interventions in the field of tension between language and architecture at several locations in Hanover.

Inputs from guests from the fields of fine arts and conflict counseling as well as a final feedback with Assemble Studio on the realized projects formed the framework.

The one-week summer school was part of the international conference for experimental urban development "you promised me a city" conceived by endboss and took place on June 10th and 11th 2022 in Hanover.

Under the motto MAKING WAVES, the British collective The DisOrdinary Architecture Project, led by the deaf architect Richard Dougherty, designed a festival centre on Prinzenstraße that was characterised by a deaf architectural aesthetic.
I supported Festival Theaterformen and the artists in organising, coordinating and realizing the project and acted as an intermediary between the various actors involved from the fields of art and stage design.

Interior design of the production, workshop, and sales areas for Chocolatier Kevin Kugel in Sindelfingen 2020.

The open production is the heart of the chocolaterie. A generous glass partition framed in black-stained ash wood with a shelf made of natural stone OceansBlack makes this possible. Connoisseurs can observe the creation of chocolate creations while enjoying coffee and pralines. To connect the two worlds of production and sales, we have used the stainlesssteel furniture commonly found in the food sector for displaying the pralines and redesigned it.

The Future City Lab_Real-World Laboratory for Sustainable Mobility Culture has set itself the task of initiating a change towards sustainable transport in Stuttgart. In order to emphasise the cultural dimension of sustainable mobility, the real-world laboratory sustainable mobility culture worked with an expanded concept of mobility. It is not just about technologies or strategies for traffic optimisation, but about a culture of mobility and movement that is orientated towards an expanded concept of prosperity and is able to create new qualities of life and qualities in the city.
The aim of the real-world laboratory was to develop ideas for a sustainable mobility culture that conserves resources and also promotes health and social interaction together with science, administration, companies and the public.

Stadtlücken is a non-profit organisation initiated by designers from various disciplines. It was founded out of the need to raise awareness of the importance of public space as the basis for our democratic coexistence. The aim is to promote a digital-analogue network for the joint development of a city worth living in. Urban gaps are potential points of attack and opportunities to take the initiative in a speculative urban system. (Building gaps, knowledge gaps, legal gaps, communication gaps, social gaps, etc.) Using creative methods and strategies of cooperative urban design, we make these gaps visible, raise awareness of places and issues and open up unused space in order to make it accessible for projects oriented towards the common good. Stadtlücken is active in Stuttgart and far beyond. We are happy to share our expertise and welcome invitations and ideas for exchange, discussion and cooperation.

www.stadtluecken.de

A vibrant and attractive community needs a lively town center where people live and businesses are at home. The center is an everyday place that offers cross-generational opportunities to meet and spend quality time in public spaces. It is the heart of the town and must not only meet different needs and requirements, but also make the character of the town tangible.
The study Experimentierorte im Ländlichen Raum - Strategien zur Sichtbarmachung und Verortung digitalanaloger Vernetzung is the basis for the development and concretization of measures to improve services of general interest and social life in rural areas using a concrete case study in the Rhine-Neckar district. From the different perspectives of various disciplines and together with local stakeholders, a concept was developed that offers a digitally and spatially networked response to current challenges. The broad expertise of those involved has been incorporated into the design of the study.

A project funded as part of the "Local Online Marketplace" ideas competition organized by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Rural Areas and Consumer Protection. Conducted at the Urban Planning Institute of the University of Stuttgart at the Chair of Urban Planning and Design under Prof. Dr. Martina Baum.