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Open Houses: Villa Il Palmerino, Florence
Federica Parretti, co-owner of Villa Il Palmerino in Florence, discusses the intellectual circle linked to the house that her artist grandparents bought from writer Vernon Lee. This article is part of the five article series "The City’s Best Houses Open to the Public", published in partnership with The Urban Activist.
The City’s Best Houses Open to the Public
To Capture Things How They Feel: An Interview with Amy Kurzweil
After Amy Kurzweil´s lecture on her work and on her new book Artificial – mit KI zur Unsterblichkeit, we joined her and the director of the DAI, Lena Jöhnk, on the stage of the library. In this wonderful interview, the cartoonist and writer talks about her creative process and what inspires her work. She shares insights on art, storytelling, and how technology shapes her imagination.
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Open Houses: Publisher Samuel Fischer, Berlin
Once a month, a cultural salon takes place at publisher Samuel Fischer’s historic house in Berlin, where the spirit of art and literary works can still be felt. This article is part of the five article series "The City’s Best Houses Open to the Public", published in partnership with The Urban Activist.
The City’s Best Houses Open to the Public
Democracy and Identity
Today, identities and identity politics are in the crosshairs of societal debates and fierce controversies. Identities are mostly fought over in terms of speech, or more concretely, in how to name and how to speak about groups that claim their own identity. The rattle is tantamount on college campuses, newsrooms, and campaign rallies.
Democracy and...
Georg Baumert - on how nature helps open your mind, and encouraged him to change his own
Georg Baumert, head of the German Borderland Museum's environmental education division, discusses the impact of the Greenbelt, a stretch of unspoiled nature along the former East-West German border, on teaching history.
Changed My Mind
Fernande Raine on the lessons we don't learn from history - and how to change that
Fernande Raine shared her experience in Russia, where she observed a shift towards imperialism and a resistance to democratic change. She stressed the importance of intergenerational dialogue and the need for a systemic overhaul in education to foster civic skills.
Changed My Mind
Katharina Weghmann - on how she realised business schools need to teach integrity and what leaders can do to instill it
Katharina Weghmann, a partner in forensic and integrity services at EY, discussed her evolving views on the role of regulation, particularly in sustainability.
Changed My Mind
Exhibition Video Released: Elias Wessel - It’s Complicated, Is Possibly Art
It’s Complicated, Is Possibly Art presents a selection of works by Elias Wessel that invert the digital space, playing with the seemingly non-corporeal, ephemeral, and magical forces tracking and shaping our experience.
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The Horniman Museum in London is a welcome truth of our world—to change it
At this Museum nature and heritage are not explained to make us comfortable. Its honesty evokes active citizenship as people reckon with the exigencies of social justice and climate.
Rethinking Cultural Institutions & Museums in Cities
How the New York Public Library lays the seeds to cultivate the city
Located in Mid-Manhattan, the New York Public Library has taken over a century-old practice of seed saving and distribution. Could seed libraries one day prevent a food crisis in our cities?
Rethinking Cultural Institutions & Museums in Cities
Neutrality shows its limits in Berlin: The Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
The director of the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, formerly known as the Russian-German Museum, on its difficult task — and how neutrality no longer provides a refuge for Russian culture in Berlin.
Rethinking Cultural Institutions & Museums in Cities
In Berlin and Paris, two museums ask people to collect stories of a changing environment
An experimental collection of objects and stories of ordinary people, hosted by two natural history museums, takes on our changing planet. Could storytelling spark action?
Rethinking Cultural Institutions & Museums in Cities
Museum Folkwang curates the city to find common ground for its future
Could a museum change a city? This museum of contemporary art invites urban dwellers to rediscover their city together, break barriers and reconnect outside the institution.
Rethinking Cultural Institutions & Museums in Cities
Pacifism is a privilege. What the war in Ukraine can teach us about cultural institutions
A Ukrainian curator, art historian and critic on how the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw changes its strategies to the current evils. And how the question of neutrality restrains others.
Rethinking Cultural Institutions & Museums in Cities
‘There is no culture without future’: Reina Sofía Museum’s distinct vision
A unique collaboration between the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid and its neighbourhood of Lavapiés questions the role of museums in relation to their physical environment.
Rethinking Cultural Institutions & Museums in Cities
More than a place to read: Memphis Library’s innovative transformation
The Cossitt Library in Memphis might be almost 130 years old; yet, it is one of the most innovative in the US. Its latest renovation will unite the city in ways beyond a dedication to the written word.
Rethinking Cultural Institutions & Museums in Cities
Two ex-lovers curate a museum to mend urban dwellers’ broken hearts
“Let us share a secret: even if you feel like grabbing an axe and breaking stuff – you will eventually get over it.” It’s time to walk through the Museum of Broken Relationships, to overcome emotional collapse.
Rethinking Cultural Institutions & Museums in Cities
A museum’s stance on the Nazi legacy of its grounds
The Museum of Egyptian Art was built where a monumental building for the Nazi Party was supposed to stand in Munich. In this city, dealing with the past in public spaces is controversial but the museum hewed to its principle.
Rethinking Cultural Institutions & Museums in Cities
Artist Lee Mingwei creates moments of change in cities
Lee Mingwei has transgressed the walls of museums. His participatory art provokes human connectedness among strangers. These moments of change are evidence of how museums could embrace new approaches to advance social value
Rethinking Cultural Institutions & Museums in Cities
‘gieß Den Kiez’: Giving Trees in Berlin a Chance to Outlive Their Planters
Berliners are making watering trees more sexy than announcing new planting. The citizen-led initiative ‘Gieß den Kiez’ coordinates watering efforts to prioritize aftercare of street trees to outlive multiple generations of people.
Inspiring Global Climate Action
Housing Los Angelenos Is a Human Right and Can Fight Climate Change
Decades of housing shortage has submerged Los Angeles in a humanitarian and sustainability crisis in the midst of extreme weather. But a growing group of volunteer Angelenos are building the movement to house LA and reverse climate change.
Inspiring Global Climate Action
Urbanists or Environmental Activists. The Odyssey of the Superblocks
Increasingly, more activist voices are advocating to reconsider the superblocks in Barcelona. Initially planned as a project of great urban transformation, it threatens to result in a giant greenwashing operation.
Inspiring Global Climate Action
London’s Dream for Trees: Mini Urban Forests Towards Carbon Neutrality
With a science-led approach, ‘Dream for Trees’ has started to plant mini urban forests in London to efficiently store carbon and create local balanced ecosystems. Can they save us from human-caused climate change?
Inspiring Global Climate Action
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
We spoke with Brian Gallagher, President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way Worldwide, about global partnerships for sustainable development. Brian Gallagher holds a degree in social work and an MBA and started with United Way as a management trainee. Today, he is a regular contributor at the World Economic Forum and a strong believer in bringing individuals and organizations together to tackle difficult social and economic issues.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
We spoke with Ulf Buermeyer, President of the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), about justice, the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, and strong institutions in Germany. Ulf Buermeyer used to be a judge in criminal cases at the Berlin Superior Court for about a decade and clerked at both the German Federal and the Berlin State Constitutional Courts.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 15 - Life on Land
We spoke with Diana Chaplin, the Canopy Director of One Tree Planted, a nonprofit on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees. Her role is focused on managing communications, marketing, and storytelling around the many reforestation projects that the organization conducts. She's a holistic thinker who helps scale the impact of One Tree Planted's work. Diana is fortunate enough to live among the woods and believes that all people should have access to healthy and thriving forests.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Gardening Decentralized Healing in Los Angeles for a Damaged Planet
In Los Angeles, a guerrilla garden proved that cultivating collective healing is possible where hardship prevails. Gardening is where healing the body and healing the planet meet and paves decentralized ways for ecosocial renewal in cities.
Inspiring Global Climate Action
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 14 - Life Below Water
We spoke with Antidia Citores, the Legal, Lobbying and Campaign Manager of the Surfrider Foundation Europe, and Sofiane Hadine who is in charge of the Ocean Initiatives, a program supported by the Surfrider Foundation Europe, about how to sustain oceans, seas and marine resources, especially through clean up actions. Antidia Citores is also board member of the Mission Healthy Ocean at European level.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 13 - Climate Action
We spoke with Johanna Neumann, Senior Director for energy campaigns at Environment America, about climate change and the protection of the environment in the United States. Environment America is a national network of 29 state environmental groups with members and supporters in every state. They focus on timely, targeted action that wins tangible improvements in the quality of the environment and people’s lives. In her prior positions, Johanna led the campaign to ban smoking in all Maryland workplaces, and helped stop the construction of a new nuclear reactor on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
We spoke with Martine Postma, the founder and director of the Repair Café International Foundation. After many years of writing about sustainability and environmental issues as a journalist, she wanted to do more than raising awareness about waste production. In 2009, she developed the concept of the Repair Café to actively try and change people’s behavior. What started in Amsterdam has now become a global movement with more than 2000 local Repair Café groups in 36 countries.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
We spoke with Jack McQuibban, Cities Programme Coordinator at Zero Waste Europe about the Zero Waste Cities approach and his work for the organization. Jack’s role is to build knowledge and provide tools to help local communities and cities play a leading role in turning the circular economy into reality for Europe. During his spare time, Jack is a keen runner and cyclist, using any opportunity to get out into nature and any excuse to enjoy a good coffee and cake on the way.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Pioneering a Circular City. At Haus Der Statistik Nothing Is Wasted
In Berlin grassroots initiatives and municipality are masterminding a town hall of the future in a pioneer quarter to decouple the city’s economic growth from environmental impacts, in addition to an avant-garde cultural approach.
Inspiring Global Climate Action
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 10 - Reduced Inequalities
We spoke with Bill Strickland, the founder and Executive Chairman of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, which works with adults in transition and at-risk youth to provide them with opportunities and new perspectives. As a Pittsburgh youth besieged by racism and poverty, his discoveries, vision, and persistence ultimately led him to become a 1996 MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient, a sought-after community leader and high-level adviser.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 9 - Sustainable Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
We talked to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Friedbert Pautzke who has started numerous sustainable industrial projects at Bochum University of applied Sciences. One of them was the SolarCar which his students drove around the world in 2013. Today, his focus is on helping students to turn their ideas into sustainable tech startups.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
We spoke with Zakia Moulaoui Guery, founder of Invisible Cities, and Alice Sparks who runs their Manchester branch. Invisible Cities, an organization based in the UK, is a social enterprise which strives to empower people who have lived on the streets with tour guide jobs.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 7 – Affordable and clean energy for all
We spoke with Shauni Nix, Founder and Executive Director of the Ohio Energy Project (OEP), whose mission is to inspire leadership and energy innovation in students and teachers. For over 35 years, OEP has supported thousands of schools, teachers and students with innovative science curriculum, materials and programs that spark curiosity about energy.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
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Locals Give Canadian Cities Butterflies. From Their Backyards
In Canadian cities a neighbour-led movement is unfolding the potential of backyards to provide pollination routes for monarch butterflies. Also it is a call on locals to become Beebnb hosts — the Airbnb for wild bees.
Inspiring Global Climate Action
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
We spoke with Franziska Herren about clean water and sanitation in Switzerland. In 2015, she launched the “Initiative für sauberes Trinkwasser” (Clean Drinking Water Initiative) with the aim to change the Suisse agricultural system through popular vote in 2021. In her daily life, Franziska Herren runs a fitness studio. Her observation of the way food is produced to the detriment of farm animals and the environment led the mother of two to take action for environmental causes.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 5: Gender equality and Women’s empowerment
We spoke with Jenny Dembrow and Ebonie Simpson, Co-Executive Directors of the Lower Eastside Girls Club in New York City, about connecting girls and young women to healthy and successful futures and the importance of community engagement. Both have been long-term contributors to the Girls Club’s successful progression from a grassroots initiative to a center of innovation in the field of community-based youth development.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 4 - Quality Education
We spoke with Ulf Matysiak of Teach First Deutschland about equitable quality education in Germany. Ulf is the CEO of the non-profit organization which has been teaching children in low-income neighborhood schools since it was founded in 2009. Recruiting and training university graduates to work alongside teachers, their effort is essential to over 5.000 school children every year as many of them would otherwise drop out or leave school without a diploma.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 3 - Good Health and Well-Being
We spoke with Creighton Drury, Chief Executive Officer at Partnership to End Addiction, about the addiction epidemic in the United States. Since joining the organization in 2018, Creighton led the merger of two iconic nonprofits in the addiction space: Partnership for Drug-Free Kids and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. The organizations rebranded and changed their name to Partnership to End Addiction earlier this year.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 2 – Zero Hunger
We spoke with Sabine Werth of Berliner Tafel e.V. about hunger in Berlin. Sabine is the founder and chairperson of the non-profit organization which has been distributing food to those in need since it was founded in 1993. With the support of over 2700 volunteers, their work is essential as many Berliners of all ages lack money for quality groceries.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Three Questions on Sustainable Development: Goal 1 – No Poverty
We spoke with Karl Chan about poverty in New York City. Karl Chan is Associate Director at The Bowery Mission and responsible for partnerships. He immigrated together with his wife to the United States from Australia in 2018. His passion for justice and social equality led him to his current position at the Mission, which has been serving homeless and hungry New Yorkers since 1870. Karl Chan likes to keep himself active by playing tennis. He is also an amateur photographer.
Taking Stock: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
We Are Here Venice. Back Soon but Better
Now that Venice is back for its residents, culture and science are stimulating an urgent debate on its future. Some answers might already lie in the natural capital of the lagoon. If we can’t save Venice, what does that mean for the rest of humanity?
Inspiring Global Climate Action
A Green Strip Full of Potential. Creatives in Turin Reclaim Their City
Luca Ballarini, and the collective Torino Stratosferica, turned an abandoned tramway into a park to demonstrate the potential of Turin and project the city into a sustainable future.
Inspiring Global Climate Action
Realising America's Criminal Justice System Was Broken with Jordan Blashek and Chris Haugh
The Authors of Union: a Search for Common Ground on how an American road trip woke them up to the failings in the criminal justice system and the limitations of beloved media outlets.
Changed My Mind
Danny Finkelstein on Changing Political Allies
Danny Finkelstein, associate editor of the Times and Conservative peer, talks to us about why being able to clearly see both sides of an argument is important but can also feel debilitating in a world that craves certainty.
Changed My Mind
