Catalysts of co-creative processes
Art and culture not only address important social and societal issues of our time, they also allow us to get in touch with people. NEBourhoods therefore works closely with artists and creative professionals in the real-world laboratories. In workshops, they explore the unknown with all participants in a playful way and with visionary ingenuity, they design tools for the development of NEBourhoods prototypes - and raise our awareness so that we can participate in debates about our built environment.
The following artists and creatives are part of the NEBourhoods pool of creatives and are working with us and the people of Neuperlach to shape the transformation of the district into a climate-neutral, climate-resilient and circular future.
"I am a narrative artist and facilitator for social innovation and my projects move between universities and training courses,
entrepreneurship and organizational development, social economy, cabaret and coaching. StoryWisdom creates lively and attractive future scenarios in which the city and life are not seen as predetermined.
city and life do not appear to be predetermined and unchangeable, but instead citizens can evaluate their living space themselves, develop visions for it and tackle innovations."
Silvia Angel
"I am a punk and presenter, contemporary dancer, performer and choreographer, emigrant and feminist. I create poetic images, movements and discussions. Contemporary dance is not only an artistic, but also a social and collective practice."
Alina Belyagina
"I am a freelance artist and work a lot in public spaces, designing facades. So the urge to actively shape my environment is in my DNA. I want to use my experience and my eye as a graffiti artist to make Neuperlach and the city of Munich more vibrant."
Benjamin Calliari-Herzberg
"I am a theater maker and radio playwright and produce mobile plays. One of my goals is to make people visible in migrant society who are overlooked. A city can only be integrative and inclusive if its inhabitants are. That's why I'm interested in formats that bring people together through art."
Maja Das Gupta
"I am a product designer specializing in color and material design.
material design. I create new products with added value from unused materials for companies. My vision is to use upcycling and sustainable design to save resources and support the principle of the circular economy in order to have a positive impact on the climate. For the zero waste city."
Anna Diermeier
Photocredit: Anne Kaiser
"As a designer, I create discursive and participatory formats. I use methods and approaches from design to make socially relevant topics tangible and negotiable. With my work, I want to promote connections between different perspectives and interests and explore border areas and open spaces in urban areas."
Sarah Dorkenwald
"I am an architect and, in addition to the classic trades, I am artistically concerned with life and living in the large housing estate, a constant exploration and discovery, an urban laboratory with a wide variety of living environments, in which a new perspective on urban development potential is created."
Tugba Ercan
"I am an architect and mediator of building culture. The spatial, which is the essence of all my projects, speaks its own language and knows no barriers. I can get into anyone's head with it. It is important to me to generate interest and fun in building culture. And self-confidence. So that we all deal with our built environment differently - more attentively - in the future. And to advance urban development on this basis: together and creatively."
Enrica Ferrucci
Photocredit: wilmvisuals
"I create strong brands. With my strategic design, I pursue one goal above all: I want to move people and brands effectively. Design is change, because it shows ways to deal creatively with complexity. I want to make Munich a green, diverse and liveable place."
Susana Frau
Photocredit: Andreas Pohlmann
"I am an artistic researcher with a focus on new technologies such as AI and blockchain. I am committed to further strengthening the sense of community and personal responsibility of residents. I bring expertise in social transformation processes as well as skills in developing narratives and strategies for change."
Max Haarich
Photocredit: Eolo Perfido
"I am a visual artist working in a wide variety of communities and collectives, trained in spatial thinking, work politically, have contact with all social classes and an insatiable interest in people and their view of the world. For me, culture and political participation are at the heart of urban development."
Ruth Hahn
"I am an actor, artist, circus and theater educator. My aim is to find and create spaces in the city where people encounter each other in a moving way, where movements are initiated. And to build bridges between different disciplines."
Michael Heiduk
"I work as a freelance architect in various contexts and constellations in and between architecture, (social) design and urban design. With the understanding of the city as a common resource, I would like to contribute to a socially and ecologically fairer distribution of space and a stronger awareness of the responsibility of each and every individual for active co-design and open up scope for action. To move from thinking to designing and crafting, so that the city is thought and made differently together!"
Laura Maria Höpfner
"I am a research-based textile designer and conceive, design and develop user-oriented solutions in textile design, fashion design and e-textile design. I am very interested in ensuring that my preferred habitat - the city - is still liveable in the future or becomes more liveable and offers a healthy living space for all living beings."
Jennifer Keusgen
Photocredit: Elia Schmid
"I am a goldsmith and designer and create formats for the edible city. I combine global food techniques and methods with our regional products and work on integrating edible wild plants into our diet. Food on our doorstep, just like that, accessible to everyone. New perspectives and a different approach to our city through forward-looking projects that taste good and connect."
Christine Krauss
"As a strategic design consultant, I focus on relevant issues for the mobility transition in the form of concept development and design processes. I also develop participatory projects in public spaces. Building on the needs of local residents and existing knowledge of the district, I use strategies from art and design to create diverse projects. For the city as a place worth living in."
Raphael Krome
"As a visual artist, I am interested in things that have not yet been realized and are missing from our current society. I am fascinated by the potential of redesigning the city and urban society. Because what surrounds us, what we encounter in everyday life, shapes our thoughts and therefore our actions. A new environment leads to a new, hopefully sustainable and grandchildren-friendly way of thinking."
Janine Mackenroth
Photocredit: Astrid Schmidhuber
"I am a media artist, author, director and lecturer for independent workshop formats in cultural education (IMAL). The utopia of a different society that understands the city as a social space and promises greater equality of opportunity is worth living for me and I want to be creatively committed to it. Social sculptures, interactive formats and the visual realization of narratives are the artistic practices from which I draw."
Stephanie Maier
"II develop dance projects for everyone and want to help create a city that does not isolate anyone. Where this succeeds, inclusive places are created. People reflect that I have a special kind of networked thinking. And I particularly enjoy bringing together people, things and views that don't normally interact."
Ralf Otto
"I am a musician. I compose music, perform and record music. Solo and with others. I am lucky enough to live this passion as my profession. The conscious integration of sound and music into urban development can helpcreate inspiring and vibrant environments, celebrate the cultural diversity of the city and bring people together."
Juergen Reiter
"I am a communication designer and work at the intersection of many disciplines that I can incorporate into my design. From visual communication to experiential spaces. With clear communication, I want to create identification for the goal of urban development and its measures. Only when stakeholders understand what is at stake and have the same goal can sustainable implementation be achieved. My aim is to empower people to work on ideas themselves."
Mattias Schelbert
"As an architect, urban design and dealing with the urban living environment is an essential aspect of my work. Discussing and developing these in dialog with residents and users of the urban environment is part of my professional mission statement.
My aim as an artist is to combine this with visual art and to find visions that go beyond the usual initial planning. In artistic interim uses, exhibitions, illustrated books, workshops with refugees and people from different backgrounds. Art as a means of transportation for visions of the future, open for the time being, without economic restrictions."
Richard Schleich
"I mainly work as a freelance concept developer for live communication. My specialty is gustatory scenography. I create encounters in the field of tension between communication and culinary delights. I am interested in the complexity of the city and urban society, especially the edible city. It would be great if my creative work could bring about a livable and lovable coexistence and lead to enriching qualities of encounter."
Jörg Sellerbeck
"I am a director and make documentary films in which I try to give a voice to unseen people and topics, to create narratives that get to the heart of an issue and touch people in a lasting way. The ways in which we live together will change in the future due to climate change. Diversity in particular of living environments through different cultures and social classes will, in my opinion, create a future worth living in. I am interested in how this how this shaping of different interest groups and needs can succeed in the urban environment."
Helen Simon
"I am a freelance photographer, visual artist and art educator. In my artistic work, I deal with migration, border politics and their social and political impact on society. Border politics, racism, the distribution of wealth and resources and climate justice are closely interlinked. All of these aspects also have an impact on the urban fabric, especially when it comes to change. I believe that close, respectful cooperation, listening and exchange with residents and open-ended work are particularly important."
Sandra Singh
Photocredit: Francesco Giordano
"As a trained sculptor, I design cultural-social and participatory projects in public spaces. I stand for a fundamental change in public space. Away from consumerism and restrictive regulations, towards a place that invites people to take responsibility for their own design and participation. We can get there through joint action at the interface of art, architecture, education and collective practice."
Adrian Sölch
Photocredit: Raumfragen e.V.
"I am a filmmaker, media artist and a bit of a computer geek. I am interested in how artistic forms, activist forms and entrepreneurship can be combined in a creative way. Basically, I work for a polyphonic, fair society of co-determination that makes the most diverse public space possible with a lot of tolerance, courage and experimentation."
Patrik Thomas
Photocredit: Ines Alves
"I am and psychologist who has worked for companies, NGOs and the public sector in the field of user experience and design research. I am currently working freelance in the field of regenerative transformation and the interaction of internal & external change.Cities and urban societies are living experimental spaces.Here we can try out and shape together how we want to live: Creative, life-affirming, regenerative! In urban ecosystems, we can observe the challenges of our time and shape interventions. This can be achieved through active, respectful, open listening and emergent support of transformation processes as well as the co-creative development of ideas, visions and concepts."
Anna Eva Várnai
"I am a lyricist, radio producer and acoustic artist. Crossing borders inspires me in my thinking and in my art. That's why I combine working at a theater bar, writing and riding as a bike courier in my work, and help the lively subculture in Munich to have its say on free radio."
David Westphal