CITY++ e.V.

CITY++ e.V. is a registered nonprofit organisation based in Berlin, Germany, founded by urbanists, technologists, and cultural practitioners with members across Europe. The organisation describes its mission as harnessing the potential of a digital society to co-create an inclusive sustainable urban future, with participatory placemaking as the foundation for inclusive sustainable development. Its work sits at the intersection of urban design, strategic planning, citizen engagement, and digital innovation. The organisation frames lasting urban transformation as beginning with citizen empowerment — enabling people to actively shape their built environment. Through research, education, and innovation, CITY++ develops collaborative, transdisciplinary approaches intended to promote accessibility, cultural inclusion, and urban well-being. It addresses complex challenges such as climate change adaptation and social inequality, and states an ambition to advance a circular society through inclusive, forward-thinking solutions that connect people, technologies, and places. CITY++ organises its activity around three connected themes. The first, digital society, explores how technology enables new ways for citizens to engage in shaping the built environment; digital tools are used to support co-creation, amplify diverse voices, and make collaboration more inclusive and effective. The second, participative placemaking, invites people to co-create their spaces so that everyday experiences shape inclusive and resilient environments. The third, sustainable development, pursues inclusive strategies for resilient environments that prioritise sustainability and climate change adaptation. Methodologically, the organisation combines non-formal learning, citizen science, and digital tools to foster accessibility, build trust, and encourage experimentation, reflection, and iteration. Its stated core values are inclusion, foresight, transparency, and cross-sectoral cooperation. CITY++ describes its process as cyclical: change begins with observing everyday urban life, then imagining solutions together, developing tools for inclusive transformation, and learning through ongoing reflection before returning to observation. CITY++ operates as a nonprofit entity rather than a commercial company, with a board and founding members listed publicly. Its leadership includes co-founders and board members working across inclusive urban design, strategic development, urban development research, and strategic partnerships, alongside founding members specialising in urban design and visual sociology, creative and visual direction, systemic thinking, sustainable development, and landscape architecture. The organisation presents projects and a team on its website and positions itself as working across local and international contexts.

CITY++ e.V. is a registered nonprofit organisation based in Berlin, Germany, founded by a group of urbanists, technologists, and cultural practitioners. The organisation reports members across Europe and describes itself as driven by a shared curiosity about how cities can become more inclusive, connected, and resilient when shaped by the people who live in them. Its founding group includes professionals working in inclusive urban design and strategic development, urban development research and strategic partnerships, urban design and visual sociology, creative and visual direction, systemic thinking, sustainable development, and landscape architecture. From its formation, CITY++ has positioned itself at the intersection of three fields: the digital society, participative placemaking, and sustainable development. Its stated mission is to harness the potential of a digital society to co-create an inclusive sustainable urban future, treating participatory placemaking within a digitally connected society as the foundation for inclusive sustainable development. The organisation argues that lasting urban transformation begins with citizen empowerment — enabling people to actively shape their built environment. CITY++ develops its work through research, education, and innovation, pursuing collaborative, transdisciplinary approaches intended to promote accessibility, cultural inclusion, and urban well-being. It explicitly addresses complex challenges such as climate change adaptation and social inequality, and frames its ambition as advancing a circular society through inclusive, forward-thinking solutions that connect people, technologies, and places. Its activity is described as spanning local and international contexts. The organisation's method combines non-formal learning, citizen science, and digital tools. It states that these are used to foster accessibility, build trust, and encourage experimentation, reflection, and iteration. CITY++ describes its working process as cyclical: change begins with observing everyday urban life; solutions are then imagined together; tools for inclusive transformation are developed; and learning continues through ongoing reflection, returning to observation to improve. Its core values are stated as inclusion, foresight, transparency, and cross-sectoral cooperation. Structurally, CITY++ operates as a nonprofit association (eingetragener Verein) rather than a commercial enterprise. It maintains a board and lists founding members publicly, and presents projects and team information through its website. The organisation's vision is of cities that are equitable, adaptive, and designed with care for both people and the planet, where diversity, resilience, and connection define the built environment.

A nonprofit, transdisciplinary urban innovation organisation combining citizen engagement, digital tools, and urban design to advance inclusive and sustainable cities.

• Participative placemaking

  Inviting people to co-create their spaces so that everyday experiences shape inclusive and resilient environments.

• Digital society engagement

  Using digital tools to support co-creation, amplify diverse voices, and make collaboration more inclusive and effective.

• Sustainable development strategies

  Inclusive strategies shaping resilient environments that prioritise sustainability and climate change adaptation.

• Non-formal learning and citizen science

  Combining non-formal learning, citizen science, and digital tools to foster accessibility, trust, experimentation, reflection, and iteration.

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