We design, organise and coordinate vocational education trainings by connecting experiences and expertise. We open up spaces for peer-learning exchange among practitioners. We foster intercultural exchange. We build up innovative professional networks in Europe. And we want to learn!
Local Squares Partnership (2012-14)
Open up urban Spaces Project (2010-11)
Workshop of Europe Training (2009)
With the support of participatory methods (Open Space Technology, World Café, Appreciative Inquiry, Graphic Facilitation and Design Thinking), we design and support organisations in hosting conversations about topics and issues that lay at their hearts. We encourage self-organisation in the group, foster collective responsibilty and creativity - from the design to the delivery phase.
Strategy Meeting CfE (2013)
We facilitated the strategy meeting of Citizens for Europe e.V. in November 2013. The Organisation is engaged for more political participation in Europe and asked Ineractive Workshop of Europe GbR to support in redefining their own vision and finding a new working modus due to recent changes in the team and approved projects.
...is a EU funded partnership (2012-2014) connecting and training urban planners in Europe. 7 partners from 5 countries are investigating participatory processes in public spaces in Berlin, Madrid, Vienna, Amsterdam, Brussels and Twello by using a transdisciplinary approach. The partners are currently working on a toolkit for practitioners.
DiverseCity onBoard tackles the challenges of bringing more migrants into the governing bodies of private and public institutions. IWoE supported the Berlin based organization Citizens for Europe e.V. by co-designing together with the NGO a middle-term strategy and by moderating the first stakeholders meeting in Berlin.
...was a local participation project in Wolfsburg (Germany). By using different methods such as storycatching, guided walks and world café we sharpened attention for the opportunity of co-creating the upcoming urban development process and we empowered people to share and to discuss their ideas, wishes and needs.
... was a European Network project (2010-2011) on Open Space Technology & urban development. 17 young professionals self-organized a training and challenged questions of participation methods in concrete urban planning cases in Lille, Turin and Berlin. The project has been chosen as best practice by the German National Agency.
... gathered 50 European activists in Barcelona (2012) discussing about diversity, racism and interreligious dialogue. As facilitators, we supported the organizers (Citizens for Europe e.V. & Bertelsmann Stiftung) in defining the focus of the workshop, designing the agenda and finally facilitating the process itself.
All 15 participating initiatives working with the re-use of vacant buildings / spaces (called "Leerstandsmelder") are invited to join for the second conference that took place on October 2013 in Bonn, Germany. We supported the self-organisation & networking process of the mostly volontary working people.
... was a two-staged training programme (2009) about methods of Intercultural Learning for people working with youngsters. This intensive experience of self-organisation was the starting point for the future engagement in participative VET on a European level and gave name for our company.
Giulia (MA intercultural conflict management) works as facilitator and is passionate about facilitating groups in becoming more aware of their own resources, fostering collective intelligence in the room and supporting co-creation processes. Her practice is inspired by Art of Hosting, Design Thinking and Process-Oriented Psychology.
In the last 2 years, her work consisted especially in supporting organizations in establishing cross-disciplines and cross-nationals networks of practitioners based on the principles of self-organisation, resources exchange and peer-learning. She has been working all over Europe for British Council (Rome), Citizens for Europe e.V. (Berlin, Copenhagen), Bertelsmann Stiftung (Barcelona), Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation (Paris). Currently she is exploring how to best connect this expertise to inclusive urban governance processes.
In the team, Giulia is the one who keeps asking questions and wants to get to the essence of the issue. Only at that point she's happy.
Amsterdam - here we come! Our next Local Squares meeting will take place from September 25-27. We'll be introduced to the Oasis Game Method and dedicate time for testing our first toolkit prototype.
Lena, September 3rd, 2013
During the last weekend (May 31st-June 2nd), Giulia had plenty of fun working with 40 young architects coming from all over Europe to Berlin for the Event 0.1. The meeting had the goal to start up an international professional collaborative platform, by working out first its purpose and structure. Quick and dirty prototyping sessions (Design Thinking) have never been so creative, deep and immediate as this time… Maybe also thanks to the inspiring location, facing the well-known graffiti of Blu in the heart of Kreuzberg?
Giulia, 2nd of June 2013
Vertreten durch:
Lena Hummel, Giulia Molinengo, Wiebke Rettberg
info@workshop-of-europe.eu