Monday Urban Spaces Foundation

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The Montag Foundation Urbane Raum gAG is a non-profit and operational foundation named after Carl Richard Montag and is based in the Gronau district of Bonn. It was founded at the end of 2005 and belongs to the group of Montag foundations. Board members are Stefan Anspach and Johanna Debik.

With the principle of acting and creating in social responsibility , she is committed to improving people's everyday lives. The foundation works independently within the framework of its statutory requirements. The long-term financing of all foundation initiatives is guaranteed by the Carl Richard Montag Förderstiftung . This is the owner of the foundation's assets and, as a shareholder in the real estate company of the founder, pursues its ideal mission over the long term. The Montag Foundation's think tank supports them in these tasks.

Goals and work areas

The foundation is convinced that the basis of a society with equal opportunities lies in urban space, in the development of diverse and socially, functionally and structurally mixed districts. Civil society actors who also feel responsible for their neighborhood and are self-organized, are becoming more and more important. In partnerships with the public sector and the private sector, the organization would like to stimulate civil society and support it in shaping its city.

To this end, the foundation develops projects in three program areas. In the New Neighborhood program area , she would like to use various formats to make a contribution to ensuring that existing neighborhood initiatives with real estate (so-called Immovielien projects) are successful and that new ones emerge. In the program area Initial Capital for Equal Opportunity Development, the Foundation is testing the approach of combining entrepreneurial activity and community development with an investment in a property. In the Urban Dialogues program area , she conducts an open and interdisciplinary exchange with a wide variety of actors in order to meet both current and future challenges in urban development. Until 2013 she was involved in the educational architecture program area together with the Montag Foundation for Youth and Society .

Project examples

  • New neighborhoods
The foundation is committed to civic engagement in three formats by supporting neighborhood initiatives and networking them with one another. The New Neighborhood workshop series is aimed primarily at young initiatives in the goal setting and development phase. The blog www.neue-nachbarschaft.de offers information on neighborhood projects, experiences from experts and successful initiatives. The New Neighborhood newsletter provides information on the success factors of real estate projects and is a place for different positions.
The Foundation was also involved in the KALKschmiede * project on site from 2009–2012. In the Kalk district of Cologne , together with many other partners, she has initiated initiatives ( Wohndialog Kalk Nord , Jugend & Bildung in Kalk Nord ) and carries out projects ( KALK exchanges , forges , Kalker Plans ) that strengthen neighborly cohesion and the culture of participation in the district. In October 2012, the KALKschmiede * was awarded the National Prize for Integrated Urban Development and Building Culture in the “Common Good and Civil Society” category . Stadt Leben ”from the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development .
  • Initial capital for an equal opportunity district development
With the pilot project Neighborhood Velvet Weaving, the foundation in Krefeld has been implementing its initial capital approach for equal opportunities development in cooperation with the city since 2012 . The aim is to generate permanent returns by investing in the former textile factory "Alte Samtweberei" on Lewerentzstrasse, which are continuously used for charitable projects in the district. At the same time, the district benefits from the diverse uses of velvet weaving and vice versa. Since 2015 she has been active with the urban neighborhood Freiimfelde project in Halle (Saale) at a second location and in 2018 she will be implementing the third urban neighborhood BOB project in Wuppertal. Further initial capital projects are actively sought on an ongoing basis.
  • Urban dialogues
In November 2016, the convention “Real Estate for Many - Shaping Common Good Together” was held in Leipzig and demands on the topics of land, financing, funding structures, law and cooperation were drawn up with 150 experts from civil society, business and the public sector. In the past, the foundation published the special issue “Beyond Institutions” together with the polis magazine for urban development, which describes the possibilities and ways in which the relationship between civil society engagement and state / municipal control may look in the future. Providing inspiration a. the open source principle or the practice of the commons .

literature

  • Monday Urban Spaces Foundation: Initial capital for an equal-opportunity district development. Investing in the community. 1st annual report 2014. Bonn 2015.
  • Monday Urban Spaces Foundation: Newsletter New Neighborhood. 4 issues. Bonn 2014, 2015.
  • Monday Urban Spaces Foundation: New Neighborhood. Twenty-two excellent projects. The 2013 Prize. Bonn 2014.
  • Monday Urban Spaces Foundation: New partners for neighborhood development. The KALK forge * in Cologne. Methods, findings, interviews. Bielefeld 2013. ISBN transcript publisher: 978-3-8376-8664-3
  • Montag Foundation for Urban Spaces, Montag Foundation for Youth and Society, Association of German Architects BDA, Association of Education and Upbringing (VBE): guidelines for high-performance school buildings in Germany. Bonn / Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-00-043921-6
  • Monday Foundation for Youth and Society, Monday Foundation for Urban Spaces: Planning schools. Basics and processes, Berlin 2012. ISBN jovis Verlag: 978-3-86859-124-8. ISBN Friedrich Verlag: 978-3-7800-4954-4
  • Hölzer, Hundt, Lüke: Stromlagen. Design urban river landscapes. Edited by Montag Foundation Urban Spaces and Regionals 2010, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-7643-8828-7 (German) ISBN 978-3-7643-8829-4 (English)
  • polis. Magazine for Urban Development and Montag Foundation for Urban Spaces (ed.): Beyond Institutions. Inspirations for self-confident urban developers. Edition s02 / 2011. Wuppertal 2011. ISSN  0938-3689
  • Stimpel, Roland: room teacher. In: Deutsches Architektenblatt 03/10

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