Association

Urbane Praxis e.V. supports the interests of urban practitioners in different locations in Berlin. We build networks by connecting civil society actors in urban practice, administration and politics through intermediary communication and networking, representation and responsiveness. Our Association stores, bundles and communicates knowledge, takes up interdepartmental topics of the city and makes them visible.

Netzwork office (Netzwerkstelle)

The operational body of Urbane Praxis e.V. is the network office, in german referred to as “Netzwerkstelle” It supports the Initiative Urbane Praxis in the development of discourse formats, action strategies and policy proposals together with urban policy actors, Berlin-wide and beyond the city limits. The network office connects with actors in the urban society in order to create synergies and to use resources sustainably for the achievement of common goals.

The network office is represented by Kristin Lazarova and Nina Peters.

Goals

The Berlin network is to be further expanded in 2022 and 2023. In addition, a nationwide and Europe-wide network is to be established. Urban practice is to become visible through new formats of mediation and exchange. Conceivable formats include roundtable discussions, podcasts, and joint city exploration tours. More places of urban practice are to be found and new collaborations with the individual districts are to be initiated. The consolidation of already existing locations is to be supported. Active cooperation with other intermediary urban policy bodies (e.g. “Taskforce bedrohte Räume”) should take place.

Working groups

Working groups (Arbeitskreise or AK´s) were formed to develop the goals described above. These deal with the elaboration of concrete proposals.

  • AK 1 – Fund*
  • AK 2 – Department connection
  • AK 3 – Network and practice
  • AK 4 – Space
  • AK 5 – Knowledge transfer

*development of a funding instrument

Board

Here you can find an information diagram how the association is structured (download link to pdf).

On 06/13/2022, the following members were elected to the Board of Directors:
Sabine Kroner (Berlin Mondiale), Markus Bader (raumlaborberlin), Rebecca Wall, Miodrag Kuč (ZK/U), Tomma Suki Hinrichsen (Torhaus Berlin)

Articles of Association

Here you can find the statutes of Urbane Praxis e.V. (download link to pdf).

Become a member

Are you active as an urban practitioner yourself? We are happy to welcome new members. Send us an email with a few short sentences about you and your project to
office@urbanepraxis.berlin