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Tag Archives: Neukölln
Immigration in Berlin: Can Social Integration Take Place in a Bathhouse?
by Gabriela Chavez* I knew early on in my research project that I wanted to focus on some aspect of the Turkish community but I began at first with an arguably unanswerable question: are the Turkish communities “integrated” into society … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, kreuzberg, market, migration, Neukölln, NYU Berlin, Turkish immigrants
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The Gentrification Conversation: Losing Sight of Nuance in Berlin’s Neukölln District
by Darius Rafieyan* “Suddenly, they were all here. All these students, artists, layabouts. The complete mob called creative class[…] and suddenly all was changing. The rents were no longer cheap, the drug dealers left the Reuterplatz, whorehouses closed, instead we … Continue reading
Opening NEMONA Concept Store
By Markus Kather These days Karl-Marx-Straße, Neukölln’s beloved/notorious strip of gambling places and discount stores, has one more highlight. Local designers organized in the NEMONA fashion network are presenting their work at a temporary store.
Urban Explorations: Nacht & Nebel in Neukölln
by Markus Kather This weekend Neukölln, one of Berlin’s most interesting districts for art and design, is showing off: Nacht und Nebel is a festival for local art and culture. In more than 100 locations Neukölln’s artists will present their … Continue reading
Nemona: Cooperation within and around Nemona
By Claudia Rojas After presenting an urban analysis of Nemona and narrating some histories of social integration in Neukölln, Berlin, in this article we will summarize the most important activities and accomplishments of Nemona´s fashion designers. Their participation (as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged 48h Neukölln, cooperation, designers, fashion, Fashion Week, Fujiama Nightclub, Heimathafen, NEMONA, Neukölln
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Nemona: Integration through fashion in Neukölln, Berlin
by Claudia Rojas This article is the second of a series that analyzes Nemona – Network for fashion designers and seamstresses -, in which we present stories of integration in Neukölln around fashion production. As we have written before, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, design, fashion, gender, immigration, NEMONA, Network, Neukölln, Turkish, women
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Nemona: an urban analysis
by Claudia Rojas Are we helping to create a better neighbourhood or are we dispensable in its development? This is a question that we ask ourselves when analysing city development projects like Nemona. Nemona is a project that fosters a … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, creative economy, design, fashion, NEMONA, Neukölln, urban regeneration
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Bursting the expat bubble in Berlin
Have you ever been part of an expat community? I’m talking about those highly mobile groups who leave the comfort of their homeland for the latest fashionable place. They are very different from refugees or immigrants who are forced to … Continue reading
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Tagged Annamaria Olsson, Ares Kalandides, Berlin, Berlin expat integration project, gentrification, kreuzberg, Neukölln, tourism
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Urban gardening in Berlin: contributions to city quality
by Hans Pul Although it is still freezing (at least here in Berlin), it is the time of the year for starting planning and planting this year’s vegetables. Around this time of the year, you can start planting carrots, spinach, … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, Berlin-Kreuzberg, bottom-up, citizen initiatives, city quality, cookbook, flowers, Frisch vom Dach, fruits, garden, gardening projects, Gärten, guerilla garden, guerilla gardening, High Line, kreuzberg, malzfabrik, mariannenplatz, Moritzplatz, Neighbourhood, neighbourhood residents, Neukölln, new york, pioneers, Place Identity, Prinzessinnengarten, public space, San Francisco, sense of place, social function, Steine, sustainability, sustainable, Tempelhof, Tempelhofer Freiheit, Ton, urban agriculture, urban farming, urban garden, urban gardening, urban quality, vegetable market, vegetables, vegetables market
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