What/Next

The Ruhr area is a specific urban context, which has been formed by profound transformation processes in recent decades. In order to observe the changes that are triggered by ...

Niehler Freiheit is a real-life citymaker project in Cologne that wants to create a space for community and culture in a former repair shop at the edge of town. The lockdown caused...

The neighborhood is becoming increasingly important in times of crisis. What/Next spoke to Dr. Olaf Schnur about the consequences of the crisis on urban neighborhoods.His conclusio...

The cross-media approach, combining online and offline formats, has proven to be an effective way to run citizen participation processes in the past. But how can it work, when even...

For assessing this profound change, the team of What/Next had the honor to speak with Thomas Sieverts, renowned architect and city planner. He reflects the current crisis in r...

Three times urban development planning: Leading planners from public administrations in Cologne, Munich and Zurich discuss the effects of the current crisis on long-term trends of ...

Municipal planning departments rarely take on systemically relevant tasks in acute crisis management. For them, the current crisis provides a moment of reflection based on in-depth...

In the first episode of What/Next, Prof. Agnes Förster talks to Jan Gartner of Raumpioniere, a Vienna-based platform for crowdfunding of citizen-led urban development projects. You...