04/07/2011

Sustainable Urban Development through Social Entrepreneurship?

Workshop organized by GSG at the Georg Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Research, together with  Department for Urban Studies, Univerity of Malmö und the Technical University Berlin.

19th of may 2010, 2-5 pm, GSZ, Mohrenstraße 41, 10117 Berlin, Room 415 



Workshop participants: 
Prof. Harald Mieg, Spokesman of Simmel Center (introduction); Heike Oevermann, Member of Simmel Center (moderation); Martin Schwegmann, GSG of the Simmel Center (moderation)

Inputs: 
Mathias Heyden, Assistant Professor Technical University Berlin: What are our real values? Community design and participatory architecture as tools for urban sustainability
Paola Alfaro d´Alencon and Daniela Konrad, Assistant Professors Technical University Berlin: Introduction of their Urban Research Camp; Design Laboratory
Frederik Björk, lecturer at Malmö University: Introduction to the Concepts of Social Entrepreneurship in connection to sustainable urban development
Magnus Johansson, Assistant Professor at Malmö University: Social innovation and sustainable urban development
Lise Bisballe, lecturer at Roskilde University and social entrepreneur: Introduction of the project socialventures@2200 in Copenhagen
Thomas Bisballe, analyst for the city of Copenhagen: Public actors and the facilitation of social entrepreneurship - How to interact with "the opposition
Levend Kalac, Architect and Master Student, Fachhochschule Frankfurt: Urban development challenges - the case of Norra Sorgenfri
Prof. Björn Bjerke, Linnaeus University: Local governments with public entrepreneurs in focus

Workshop organization: Martin Schwegmann