Go behind the scenes with us: these colorful communities on the edges of Mitte, Wedding and Prenzlauer Berg were just a couple of decades ago divided and scarred by the Berlin Wall, with cheap rents and derelict buildings. Local activism and gentrification are now neighbors as galleries, hip cafés and all kinds of community-oriented projects continue to develop. The tour invites you to explore such urban developments and points out the potentials of civil engagement and grassroots movements for a metropolis like Berlin.
The special historical conditions will be
discussed on-site at the last section of the wall kept as it used to be during the time East and West were divided here by the Iron Curtain. The tour then presents all manner of creative culture linked to sustainability: weekly markets, a former gas station turned into a social sculpture and cultural center, guerrilla gardening installations and neighborhood gardens, adventure playgrounds, squats, collectives and cooperatives, passive houses, an ecological chapel of reconciliation, street-art, car-sharing, the broad range of organic commerce, sustainable mobility and a lot more.
