Press

Welcome to the press section of CityLAB, Berlin's public innovation lab. Here you will find our press releases, background information, images and contact information of our experts. They are available to you as interview partners for formats relating to smart cities, public innovations, open data, prototyping and sustainable urban development. We look forward to getting in touch with you!

CityLAB Berlin

Anna Hantelmann

Communication & Public Relations

Tel: +49 151 18457 242

Contacts at CityLAB by topic:

CityLAB Berlin overall

Dr. Benjamin Seibel

short bio
Pfeil Pink
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Prototyping

Ingo Hinterding

Public innovation / Service Design

Tobias Witt

Open Data

Lisa Stubert, open data service point

Smart City

Niklas Kossow

Contact and press kits of selected projects:

Kiezlabor Berlin

The Kiezlabor is Berlin's Tiny House for digital transformation and has been touring the capital's neighborhoods since summer 2023. It is a future workshop and workshop, stage and interactive exhibition, network meeting and neighborhood meeting place all in one. The Kiezlabor is part of the Smart City and Digital Strategy Gemeinsam Digital: Berlin and is being implemented by CityLAB Berlin on behalf of the Berlin Senate Chancellery.

Cooperation request:

Project page
Pfeil Pink

Gieß den Kiez

Gieß den Kiez supports the city administration and committed citizens in coordinating the watering of Berlin's urban trees. The interactive map currently shows over 830,000 street and green space trees in Berlin. Citizens can find out about the trees in their neighborhood, enter when and how much they have watered and sponsor trees on Gieß den Kiez.

Cooperation request:

Project page
Pfeil Pink
Die neue Anwendung Parla des CityLAB Berlin macht schriftliche Anfragen durchsuchbar - mobil und auf dem desktop

Parla

Parla is our AI-assistant for written questions and main committee proceedings ("red numbers") of the current legislative period of the Berlin House of Representatives. Parla searches over 11,000 publicly available documents that are published on the parliamentary documentation system PARDOK on a daily basis. If you ask Parla a question, the system uses artificial intelligence to formulate a suggested answer based on this text and references the documents used according to their relevance.

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