Illustration: Kati Szilágyi

#urbanchange

Yesterday, we explored the city on foot 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ and the topic of commoning with @poligonal.berlin, we visited and learned about Haus der Statistik from @matthiaseinhoff and @zku.berlin, we decided how we want to collaborate together and we shared our failures with a healthy dose of humor during a highly entertaining #fuckupnight with @tyronestallone 🤩😂 Photos by @panosgeorgiou ⚡

#actorsofurbanchange #kickoff2020 #kickoffberlin #urbanchange #cocreation #activecitizenship #changemakers #citymakers #citychangers #commoning #hausderstatistik #placemaking #wemakethecity #citiesforpeoplenotforprofit

Yesterday, we explored the city on foot 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ and the topic of commoning with @poligonal.berlin, we visited and learned about Haus der Statistik from @matthiaseinhoff and @zku.berlin, we decided how we want to collaborate together and we shared our failures with a healthy dose of humor during a highly entertaining #fuckupnight with @tyronestallone 🤩😂 Photos by @panosgeorgiou ⚡

#actorsofurbanchange #kickoff2020 #kickoffberlin #urbanchange #cocreation #activecitizenship #changemakers #citymakers #citychangers #commoning #hausderstatistik #placemaking #wemakethecity #citiesforpeoples

We hope your 2020 is off to a great start! May the seeds you planted last year take root 🌱and your projects grow and flourish this year… 🌳⠀
Laura from #TeamOslo demonstrates it during our meeting in Hamburg last year. 😉⠀
Photo by @panosgeorgiou⠀
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#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #activecitizenship #cocreation #inspiration #resolutions #collaboration #reflection #teamwork #facilitation

Happy 2020! 🎈 What are some of the qualities and values that you want to explore during the new year? 🧘🏽‍♀️ Words by an unknown Actor of Urban Change 😉 photo by @panosgeorgiou
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#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #citymakers #activecitizenship #cocreation #inspiration #resolutions #collaboration #reflection #teamwork #facilitation

Happy 2020! 🙋 Wishing you all a year of exciting encounters and deepening connections that help you bring your heart projects to life! 🐣 ⠀
(And we’re secretly already dreaming of summer… 🙃 )⠀
Photo of our Actors doing a triad reflection in the beautiful Lecce countryside, captured by @panosgeorgiou⠀
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#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #activecitizenship #cocreation #inspiration #resolutions #collaboration #reflection #teamwork #facilitation

When #TeamKherson makes fun of all the green vegan food in our meetings… 🥦😂 // 🎇It’s been yet another amazing year of co-creating our cities together!⠀
We’re very grateful for all of the moments we got to share with our Actors of Urban Change in 2019. Here’s a collection of some of our favorite moments together: from London to Rijeka, Hamburg to Budapest, and everywhere in between — it has been a delight to see our network of urban changemakers grow, connect and create more than ever before to improve life in our cities.✨⠀
Photo by the fantastic @panosgeorgiou⠀
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#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #urbanism #placemaking #citiesforpeople #citymakers #changemakers #greencities #citychangers #wemakethecity #sustainablecities #stadtfueralle #righttothecity #cocreation #cities #activecitizens #activecitizenship

🎇It’s been yet another amazing year of co-creating our cities together!⠀
We’re very grateful for all of the moments we got to share with our Actors of Urban Change in 2019. Here’s a collection of some of our favorite moments together: from London to Rijeka, Hamburg to Budapest, and everywhere in between — it has been a delight to see our network of urban changemakers grow, connect and create more than ever before to improve life in our cities.✨⠀
Photo by the fantastic @panosgeorgiou⠀
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#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #urbanism #placemaking #citiesforpeople #citymakers #changemakers #greencities #citychangers #wemakethecity #sustainablecities #stadtfueralle #righttothecity #cocreation #cities #activecitizens #activecitizenship

🎇It’s been yet another amazing year of co-creating our cities together!⠀
We’re very grateful for all of the moments we got to share with our Actors of Urban Change in 2019. Here’s a collection of some of our favorite moments together: from London to Rijeka, Hamburg to Budapest, and everywhere in between — it has been a delight to see our network of urban changemakers grow, connect and create more than ever before to improve life in our cities.✨⠀
Photo by the fantastic @panosgeorgiou⠀
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#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #urbanism #placemaking #citiesforpeople #citymakers #changemakers #greencities #citychangers #wemakethecity #sustainablecities #stadtfueralle #righttothecity #cocreation #cities #activecitizens #activecitizenship

Drumroll please! 🥁 It’s official: We have 10 new Actors of Urban Change teams! 🎉 We’re super excited to welcome them into our network and to see them working together to turn their ideas to improve their cities into action! ⠀
These are our new teams:⠀
🇦🇹 AUSTRIA, Innsbruck: Bauraum Innsbruck⠀
🇧🇪 BELGIUM, Brussels: Permanent⠀
🇧🇦 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, Bugojno: My Space Nugle⠀
🇧🇬 BULGARIA, Silistra: The Aircraft Social Lab⠀
🇫🇷 FRANCE, Saint-Denis: Art-sport: network, territories⠀
🇬🇷 GREECE, Athens: mobile community center/transforming van⠀
🇬🇷 GREECE, various cities: Climate Justice Open call for Artists⠀
🇬🇷 GREECE, Kaisariani: The path of memories⠀
🇱🇹 LITHUANIA, Kaunas: Kaunas Fortress Fort no. 8⠀
🇹🇷 TURKEY, İzmir: Tramp Kitchen⠀
We can’t wait to meet the new Actors for our Kickoff in Berlin next February! ⠀
Photo by @panosgeorgiou taken during our last Kickoff in 2018 💛⠀
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#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #urbanism #placemaking #citiesforpeople #citymakers #changemakers #greencities #citychangers #wemakethecity #sustainablecities #stadtfueralle #righttothecity #cocreation #cities #activecitizens #activecitizenship

The jury‘s done!🗳👩🏻‍⚖️ ✅ The next ten Actors of Urban Change teams have been selected 🤩🎉
We’re so excited and can’t wait to meet them all in person!
Stay tuned for the big announcement soon 🍾🥁
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#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #urbanism #placemaking #citiesforpeople #citymakers #changemakers #greencities #citychangers #wemakethecity #sustainablecities #stadtfueralle #righttothecity #europe #eurocities #smartcities #cocreation #cities #activecitizens #activecitizenship #citytoolbox #mitost #robertboschstiftung

We’re still buzzing with excitement from our Shift Culture! Artivism & Campaign Design workshop last Friday at @werkstatt_hds! An incredible group of people came together and were super energized to co-create culture change through art ✊🔥 A huge thank you to our Dream Team, @cleobarnett from @amplifierart and Guerrilla Foundation’s Ivan March – for being so inspiring and creating a beautiful, brave space for magic to happen ✨🌈
This is just the beginning! Stay tuned for more collective action happening soon 💪🌏
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#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #urbanism #placemaking #citiesforpeople #citymakers #changemakers #greencities #citychangers #wemakethecity #sustainablecities #stadtfueralle #righttothecity #cocreation #cities #activecitizens #activecitizenship #citytoolbox #artivism #activism #guerrillaart #berlinart #berlin #urbanart #guerrillafoundation#amplifier#ampliferart

We’re in Praga, one of Warsaw’s poorest and fastest changing districts, talking to community initiatives trying to help connect the city’s revitalization projects to the needs of residents. This is the beautiful home of the Zmiania Foundation, a self-organized community center that collects books for prisoners and other marginalized groups. “The revitalization of Praga is going very fast but not attending the needs of the community,” they say. .
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#informedcities #openheritage #iclei #urbact #urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #urbanism #placemaking #citiesforpeople #citymakers #changemakers #greencities #citychangers #wemakethecity #sustainablecities #stadtfueralle #righttothecity #europe #eurocities #smartcities #cocreation #cities

When actors of urban change visit each other and then magic happens… 😍⠀
Paco’s Pop-Up Café was a spontaneous street placemaking experiment as Paco & Oscar from #TeamValencia visited @nabolagshager and #TeamOslo on a lovely late summer day. The free café was set up in front of a school and was a big hit with passers-by, with delicious Mexican food, games, and good stories from neighbors, teachers and students. So glad our program brought them together and the synergies continue beyond their original projects! ✨⠀
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#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #urbanism #placemaking #citiesforpeople #citymakers #changemakers #greencities #citychangers #wemakethecity #sustainablecities #stadtfueralle #righttothecity #europe #eurocities #smartcities #cocreation #cities #activecitizens #activecitizenship #citytoolbox #mitost #robertboschstiftung #oslo #valencia #streetfood

Watch out! Something’s cooking in the Actors kitchen… 🤩⠀ We’re getting ready to launch the next call for applications very soon! Make sure you don’t miss it — sign up right now on our website (link in bio) to receive it in your inbox as soon as it’s out! 🔥
Photo by @panosgeorgiou
#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #citymakers #urbanists #urbanism #changemakers #citiestothepeople

An intense 18-month journey has come to an end! ✨ Thank you @halllohalllohalllo and @kraftwerk_bille for being such fantastic hosts of our final meeting 🔥and thank you to our guests and experts from Hamburg and beyond for joining us to think and talk about new ways of working together to make our cities better places. 👩🏻‍🎨👨🏽‍🏫👩🏽‍🌾👨🏽‍🍳👷🏼‍♀️
Last but not least, thank you Actors of Urban Change for co-creating such a beautiful community. This chapter ended, but the adventure continues! 💛
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Photos by @panosgeorgiou
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#urbanchange #actorsofurbanchange #urbanism #placemaking #changemakers #citymakers #wemakethecity #citiesforpeople

Walking the streets and green corridors of East Hamburg on a beautiful spring day… experiencing the city with all of our senses. 🙈👂🏽👃🏾
Thank you @halllohalllohalllo for guiding us and @panosgeorgiou for the photos!

#urbanchange #citymakers #placemaking #publicspaces #citiesforpeople #greencities #Hamburg #walkability #greencorridors #urbanplanning

Last week, #TeamChisinau inaugurated #CasaMicle, a pavillion and meeting space where people can learn more about their vision to turn Veronica Micle Street into a pedestrian zone. 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️🚶🏻‍♂️🚶🏾‍♀️
During the Sidewalk Forum, Architects, experts in urbanism and civic activists participated expressing their own ideas and views regarding pedestrian streets and public spaces. The adults, alongside with children, valued this amazing opportunity to have, at least for a day, the street as a pedestrian space. They played on it, engaged in long walks and conversations and drew with colored chalk on asphalt. .
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#placemaking #urbanchange #mobility #citiesforpeople #greencities #walkability #actorsofurbanchange #chisinau #publicplaces #urbanplanning

Yesterday, we explored the port city of Rijeka and learned from @rijeka2020 and @deltalab_rijeka about an area called “Sweet and Salt” where the river meets the sea, an industrial area with many abandoned spaces that they are now reclaiming for the local community. One of their plans is to restore access for residents to the seaside and riverside for swimming, leisure and more — through simple and cheap interventions, using mostly what is already there. Here are some impressions of the day by the best ever @panosgeorgiou ⛵️🌊
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#actorsonthemove #abandonedspaces #rijeka2020 #urbanchange #citymakers #publicspaces #placemaking #tacticalurbanism

Oh what a ride! 🚞🚞🚞
Rolling through beautiful forests, villages, and mountains all the way to the sea from Zagreb to Rijeka would have already been enough. But we did it Actors style: had a wagon just for us and took the time to reconnect, reflect and find out what all the teams have been up to in the past few months. All with a good dose of humor. What a great bunch of people! 🤩🙌
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#actorsonthemove #urbanchange #citymakers #ActorsAcademy

How to turn #foodwaste into (social) energy in a super dense urban environment? Exploring new ways of consuming and producing in London’s East during a last supper with @rurban_poplar_london, @poplar.harca, @publicworks_uk and #quantumwaste at their anaerobic digester in the midst of #Poplar.
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Thanks to #TeamLondon for hosting our Actors and to @publicworks_uk for the awesome pictures!
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#actorsonthemove #circulareconomy #urbanchange #wastereduction #urbanintervention #London #citymakers

It emerged out of nothing last May, and returned to nothing in September. Now, Berlin’s @floatinguniversity is trying to find ways to keep this inner-city offshore laboratory for collective, experimental learning alive. Actor of Urban Change Dorothee Halbrock from @halllohalllohalllo and #TeamHamburg was dean of Floating University’s open programs. She shared with us her impressions of the summer as well as the project’s outlook for the future. Read her story on our website – link in bio! ⠀
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#Berlin #communityactivation #creativespaces #culture #placemaking #resilientcities #sustainablearchitecture #urbanchange