Creating NEBourhoods Together

"I am a narrative artist and facilitator for social innovation and my projects move between universities and training courses,
entrepreneurship and organisational development, social economy, small-scale performance and coaching. StoryWisdom creates lively and attractive future scenarios in which the city and life do not come across as predetermined and unchangeable; 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 theatre maker and radio playwright and produce mobile plays. One of my goals is to make overlooked people in migrant society visible. 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.
For businesses, I create new products with added value from unused materials. My vision is to use upcycling and sustainable design to save resources and support the principle of a 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 environments."
Sarah Dorkenwald

"I am an architect and, in addition to dealing with the classic trades, I am artistically concerned with life and living in large housing estates, a constant exploration and discovery, an urban laboratory with a wide variety of living environments, in which a new perspective on the potential of urban development 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. With it, I can get into everyone's head. It is important to me to generate interest and enjoyment 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 among residents. I provide 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, I am trained in spatial thinking, I work politically, I have connections 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 goal is to find and create spaces in the city where people encounter each other in motion, 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 to a stronger awareness of the responsibility of each and every individual for active co-design, and I'd like to open up scope for such action. To move from thinking to designing and crafting, so that the city is communally thought of and made differently!"
Laura Maria Höpfner

"I am a research-based textile designer and conceive, create 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 - will still be or will become more liveable in the future and offer a healthy habitat 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 people."
Christine Krauss

"As a strategic design consultant, I focus on issues relevant to mobility transition in the form of concept development and design processes. I also develop participatory projects in public spaces. I create many different projects by building on the needs of local residents and on existing knowledge of the district, using strategies from art and design. 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 realised 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 will lead to a new and, I hope, 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). For me, the utopia of a different society that understands the city as a social space and promises greater equality of opportunity is worth living in, and I want to commit myself to it creatively. Social sculptures, interactive formats and the visual implementation of narratives are the artistic practices from which I draw inspiration."
Stephanie Maier

"I develop dance projects for everyone and want to help create a city that does not isolate anyone. When this succeeds, inclusive places are created. People tell me that I have a special kind of networked thinking. And I do particularly enjoy bringing together people, things and views that don't usually interact well with one another."
Ralf Otto

"I am a musician. I compose music, perform and record music. Both 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 help to create inspiring and vibrant environments, celebrate the cultural diversity of the city and bring people together."
Juergen Reiter

"I am a communications designer and work at the intersection of many disciplines that I can incorporate into my designs, from visual communication to experiential spaces. Through clear communication, I want to create an identification with the goal of urban development and its measures. Only when stakeholders understand what is at stake and share 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 dialogue 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 conventional initial planning – in artistic interim uses, exhibitions, illustrated books, in workshops with refugees and people from different backgrounds. Art as a means of transportation for visions of the future, open for the time being, with no economic restrictions."
Richard Schleich

"I mainly work as a freelance concept developer for live communications. My specialty is gustatory scenography. I create encounters in the tense atmosphere between communication and cuisine. 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 liveable and lovable coexistence and lead to enriching encounters."
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 because of climate change. In my opinion, particularly the diversity in living environments arising from different cultures and social classes will create a future worth living in. I am interested in how this shaping by 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 impacts on society. Border politics, racism, the distribution of wealth and resources and climate justice are closely interlinked. All of these factors also have an impact on the urban fabric, especially when it comes to change. I believe that close, respectful cooperation, listening to and engaging 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 fundamental change in public spaces. Away from consumerism and restrictive regulations, toward 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 am working toward a polyphonic, fair society of co-determination that makes public space as diverse as possible with a lot of tolerance, courage and joy in experimentation." 
Patrik Thomas
Photocredit: Ines Alves

"I am a designer and a psychologist who has worked for companies, NGOs and the public sector in the fields of user experience and design research. I am currently freelancing in the field of renewable transformation and the interaction between internal & external change. Cities and urban societies are living experimental spaces. Here, we can try out and jointly shape how we want to live: creatively, life-affirmingly, renewably! In urban ecosystems, we can observe the challenges of our time and design interventions. This can be achieved through active, respectful, open listening and the 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. Poaching beyond boundaries inspires me in my thinking and in my art. That's why I work at a theatre bar, write and ride as a bike courier in addition to my creative work, and help the lively Munich subculture to have its say on free radio."
David Westphal