Restart Berlin - our contribution
At Neustart Berlin, we support actors from civil society and urban communities in developing and submitting impactful concepts. Our work builds on proven experiences from Berlin and beyond – carried by a coalition of regeneratively operating initiatives. In this way, we connect local impulses with projects that have been successfully implemented and sustained across Germany and Europe.
You can find more about the call for proposals here.
Image reference: Berlin Friedrichstraße Utopia 2048 by Lino Zeddies & Aerroscape, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Neustart Berlin – Shaping the Future Together
Berlin is a city of talents, inventors, and visionaries – and it is time to harness this strength anew. Neustart Berlin is looking for the best concepts for a livable, future-ready metropolis and brings them into dialogue with experts, policymakers, and urban society.
Selected projects will be presented on November 21 at the EUREF Campus and evaluated for their feasibility.
The goal: to showcase concrete pathways for implementing sustainable impulses for Berlin’s future.
You can find more about the call for proposals here.
Reference points
Our references include projects and processes that demonstrate how civil society initiatives can shape sustainable urban development: Holzmarkt, Haus der Statistik, Tempelhofer Feld, and the UFA-Fabrik are exemplary creative spaces that combine social participation, ecological responsibility, and economic viability.
In addition, we draw on references from bold and well-researched approaches such as Reinventing Society and Politics for Tomorrow, which have established new forms of democratic design, participation, and impact measurement across Germany and Europe.
Berlin car-free
Background
The initiative Berlin Autofrei advocates for repurposing public space in the city for people instead of cars. Its concrete goal is to make the area within Berlin’s S-Bahn ring largely car-free starting in 2027.
To make this profound transformation imaginable, architect and illustrator Tom Meiser was commissioned to create images showing what Berlin could look like after the initiative’s proposed law is implemented.
Currently, Straße des 17. Juni is a six-lane federal road that cuts through the recreational park and natural area Tiergarten, creating a major barrier for both people and wildlife. In the envisioned future, the street would be lined with large trees and transformed into a connecting park avenue.
Excerpt: Reinventing Society / Straße des 17. Juni
Generation iTrust - our contribution
A special contribution of Generation iTrust lies in app-based support for impact measurement and citizen dialogue, as well as in the development of innovative participation formats.
Through serious gaming and systemic constellation work, we create spaces where complex interconnections become tangible, new perspectives emerge, and collective action is encouraged.
Our digital platform makes ideas, needs, and impacts transparent, measurable, and accessible to everyone – serving as a foundation for informed decisions and vibrant, common-good–oriented urban development.
We give young people space to shape the future and create structures that include them as part of our supervisory board – they have the final say!