New ideas, solutions and concrete improvements
You are a city, a public authority or a foundation and your goal is to increase the urban quality of life. Talk to us. Stadtluft's smart peer review format helps you to connect internationally and become better at what you do.
The view from outside
The city, authority or organisation that commissions Stadtluft gets the chance to have colleagues from abroad, who are facing exactly the same challenges, look over their shoulder. In this way, new ideas, solutions and concrete improvements emerge from ongoing projects, which are ideally in an early project stage. As a rule, three projects are presented and analysed on one main topic. The moderated exchange between teams from the three cities is accompanied by the swarm intelligence of a professional tribune with up to 40 experts.
The Manhattan principle
These exchanges follow the Manhattan principle: experts from near and afar, and from various fields, come together in the dense environment of a small space. Their mission: to improve selected projects through a peer-review process, driven by collective intelligence and a limited amount of time.
So far, the topics have been "Cycling in the city. The last adventure of the 21st century”, „Urban Trees. The mascots of our time” or „The recycled city. Back to nature“. Other possible topics that can improve the quality of life in the city are, for example, lidos, parks, football pitches, rivers, markets, backyards, libraries, roof terraces or train stations.
Founder
Since 2001,
Andrea Roman Sorg has been
responsible for dozens of events in Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
France, Belgium and Scandinavia with high-quality content for
various clients. He was a producer for ARD in Geneva and Zurich and
director of the NZZ Podium Europa in Berlin, the international event
series of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung at the time. He is a partner in
Schwarzsee Limited, an editorial event boutique based in Zurich.
Schwarzsee's clients include leading European media organisations
and universities or government agencies. In addition to Stadtluft,
Schwarzsee Limited also operates the peer review format European
Blend (www.european-blend.org), an identical format for governance. Andrea Sorg studied history,
journalism and literature (lic. ès lettres) in Geneva, London and
Fribourg and speaks German, French, English and Norwegian. He is
married to a Scandinavian and has two daughters. In his free time,
he enjoys sport, devouring newspapers, reading books and exploring
big cities.
Advisory Board
Max Dudler is a Swiss born
architect. He has headed his own practice with branches in Berlin,
Zürich, Frankfurt and Munich, since 1992.
Anouk Kuitenbrouwer is a
Swiss-Dutch architect and urban planner. She is a lecturer at the
ETH Zurich and partner at KCAP, an urbanism, architecture and
landscape design firm with offices in Rotterdam, Zurich and Paris.
Simon Kuper is a Paris-based
British columnist for the Financial Times since 1994. He is the
author of several books and also writes for magazines in Japan,
The Netherlands, Switzerland and other countries.
Anna Schindler is director of
the Office for Urban Development of the City of Zurich since
November 2011. The office consists of five agencies: Migration and
Integration, City and Neighborhood Development, Economic
Development, Foreign Affairs and Smart City.
Simon Strauss is a Berlin born
journalist and writer. He is arts editor for the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung since 2016.
