CoHousing: Community + Cooperative

Berlin offers a great range of fascinating examples regarding social and ecological CoHousing projects dealing with current challenges such as rising rents, changes in climate and demography, privatization and individualization. Our housing tours allow participaCooperativents to get to know Berlin’s community-oriented housing projects, such as the cooperatives Spreefeld, Holzmarkt, Forum Kreuzberg and Möckernkiez. These examples and others contribute to an incredible Berlin diversity of cooperative, environmental and affordable housing forms serving a sustainable urban development culture. Berlin social housing innovations include multi-generational, barrier-free and affordable renovations of existing buildings, plus-energy communities, gender-oriented projects, cooperatives, socially inclusive housing and much more. To introduce the variety of Berlin Housing cultures, we organize visits to projects, meetings with experts and activists as well as discussions and conferences.

Spreefeld Bau- und Wohngenossenschaft
Forum Kreuzberg
Möckernkiez Genossenschaft
Luisenstadt Genossenschaft
IbeB
TRNSFRM Cooperative
VOLLGUT Cooperative
Haus der Statistik Experimentierhäuser
Community Land Trust Stadtbodenstiftung
Mietshäuser Syndikat

 

Highlights

Spreefeld Neighborhood

An innovative combination of private and public spaces and uses, temporary and permanent projects, living and working, urban farming and culture. Is that possible? “Yes, of course!”, say the residents. Emerging on a field attractively located on downtown Berlin’s riverside, the Spreefeld is a unique experiment of cooperative self-organization and direct citizens’ participation.

Visit Spreefeld Neighborhood's website
Forum Kreuzberg

Developed as a cooperative residential community, the Forum-Kreuzberg houses a great variety of pioneering projects and initiatives including a community college, kindergarten, health care practice, theater, workshops and artists’ studios taking part in the modern history of community-oriented projects in Berlin.

Visit Forum Kreuzberg's website