This Berlin-focused workshop investigates how to repurpose abandoned or disused transport spaces into innovative urban cultural areas. 

Next Stop Culture
14.00-18.00, 25 January 2023 @ transmediale & CTM Festival
@ Re:mise Köpenicker Strasse 18, 10997 Berlin

Next Stop > Culture is the second Club Futures international laboratory event co-organized by the Clubcommission Berlin and  Hybrid Space Lab to develop a fresh, future-focused perspective on the club and cultural scene.

The workshop will explore the yet-to-be-unlocked potential of unused transport spaces in Berlin to encourage new concepts for cultural areas and to envision new typologies and patterns for culture-powered sustainable urban development. Overlooked and forgotten places, currently, blind spots in the city atlas, are to be brought into public awareness in developing their multifunctionally, socially, and culturally. Whilst counteracting the disadvantages of functionally separated and fragmented urban structures.

At a time when inner-city cultural spaces undergo enormous pressure, it is essential also to foster culturally active and resilient places on the outskirts of the city. The workshop will consider well-connected locations inside and outside of the S-Bahn.

The project focuses on Berlin’s environmentally friendly rail network with its radial and ring structure, which has been – and should remain – the basis for the city’s development.

The workshop will outline ideas for cultural acupuncture as a catalyst for culture-based urban development. With the claim of a cultural (re)appropriation of public space, these catalysts aim to develop mobility infrastructures as lived community spaces and cultural places of encounter and exchange. The workshop creates visions for a new urbanity. To imagine space provision for the diverse urban society’s cultural needs and concepts for innovative, environmentally friendly cultural projects.

Various qualitative typologies of mobility spaces will be accepted in the workshop. For example, no longer-in-use office buildings, locomotive sheds, workshops, warehouses, spaces under elevated railway viaducts, unused tunnels and underground stations, compensation areas, retention spaces and more.

The workshop engages and activates a broad range of ideas, inviting the radical cultural repurposing of unused spaces. For example, the workshop could explore the possibilities of culture-filled wagons moving along disused train tracks, interacting in the manifold ways with the neighbourhood they stop by in – be they in the form of travelling exhibitions, wandering clubs, artists workshops or live music sets. 

The workshop encourages the use of digital tools that can help blur divisions between local and global audiences and culture creators and to consider how cultural use could go hand in hand with the ecological upgrading of spaces. The workshop also speculates on the potential of VR or AR technologies for reviving lost music venues and spaces in former transport centres, such as new underground stations or depots.
At the same time, the workshop explores process-oriented methods, such as temporary cultural projects and Field Labs or Digital Twins, which investigate experimental forms of the production of coexistence. As pioneering settings to further develop the city culturally and protect Berlin’s long-lasting and flourishing cultural landscape, the workshop aims to envision spaces of cultural reclaim – integrating cultural performances as natural sequences in the flow of urban mobility.

More info here

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Join the team at VibeLab, a leading, purpose-driven consultancy agency in all things at night.

Founded in 2018 by Amsterdam’s former Night Mayor Mirik Milan, and Berlin Club Commission’s spokesperson Lutz Leichsenring, VibeLab is based between Amsterdam, Berlin and Sydney. Our expertise and international network of over 3,000 Creative and Cultural Industry professionals, scientists, and public officials in more than 100 cities on 6 continents help all those seeking out new paths to improve creative ecosystems. VibeLab is fast-acting, trendspotting and strategising with all parties involved in creative communities, private and public sectors. By facilitating the exchange of ideas and providing tried and tested tools, formats and best practices, we amplify subcultures.

VibeLab currently holds offices in Amsterdam/The Netherlands, Berlin/Germany and Sydney/Australia and closely collaborates with PennPraxis in Philadelphia/USA. PennPraxis is the applied research, professional practice, and community engagement arm of the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design.

We are an ethical and honest company that is wholly committed to its clients and employees. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace for all and are committed to equal opportunity in employment which focuses on all of our employees reaching their full potential. We offer an exciting work environment that brings people together. We encourage an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit. We make use of the latest digital technologies so our team is well-connected and can work professionally from all over the world.

We are looking for self-starters, who accept challenges and create solutions for these positions:

– Project Management Intern

– Nighttime Research Intern

– Communication and PR Intern

We are looking for three energetic, motivated and diligent Interns with exceptional writing and communication skills to work alongside our project management team, research team and communications manager on international projects. We offer the opportunity to assist in research or coordination/management of a varied portfolio of projects in a dynamic nighttime economy and culture environment in Berlin, Amsterdam or working remotely from another city.

What we offer:

• 3-6 months internships period (starting October or November 2022)
• Monthly stipend/allowance
• Locations in the CET time zone, preferably in Berlin or Amsterdam
• Performance evaluation
• Opportunity to rapidly learn and acquire skills in high demand in the world of nighttime consultancy
• Exceptionally good interns might be offered the opportunity to travel and gain more experience
• Access to a global knowledge base and network
• Exposure to a multicultural environment

Email lutz@vibe-lab.org

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Cities After Dark is a proposed meeting series that seeks to connect key nighttime stakeholders together across Europe.

Taking place once a month, the 90-minute meetings will feature a different lecture and discussion on a nighttime-related topic, such as on models of nighttime governance in Europe, sustainability within the nighttime sector, research methods in nighttime studies, etc.

Participants will also have the opportunity to share updates about the progress of relevant, ongoing projects, general developments in their city’s nighttime sector, as well as announce new projects or opportunities that may be of interest to other members.

While the pilot series will only be available to members from cities in Europe, the goal is to expand the series to include other regions of the world as well. 

To become a part of Cities after Dark, cities must apply as a “trio” comprising the three following partners:

• a local academic or research institution
• a person or organisation from the city administration
• and a nighttime-specific advocacy group or organisation

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