What was the issue?
During a three-day interdisciplinary workshop, students of the HTW Berlin worked on their own personal ideas for their Berlin of the future. How do we want to live in the city in the future? What would we like to change in our immediate surroundings? Are there any international examples from which Berlin can still learn? These very personal visions of the future of the city were implemented by the participants* under the guidance of mentors* in the form of prototypes.
What’s the background?
With this format, we wanted to show how simple, helpful and meaningful the application of newly acquired technical skills can be. And how these can be used in a very concrete way as drivers for shaping the future. In doing so, we were building on the positive experiences from the previous project, in which the Hacking Box of the Technology Foundation was used for exchanges with refugees who are preparing for training, studying or starting a career in Berlin. They developed initial concepts for rebuilding destroyed infrastructures in their home countries using smart technologies.
Results
The first workshops took place in cooperation with HTW Berlin during Code Week at CityLAB. The prototypes were then implemented as part of the seminar with Dr. Beatrice Moreno at the HTW. The project has been completed in the meantime.
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