Impact unit: Circular Culture
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How to Develop Circular Economy in Tourism
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Everything you want to know about Circular Berlin
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Transitional Changemakers
The Transitional Changemakers Program activates and supports people across Berlin to become ambassadors for the circular economy in their neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces. Through training, tools, and community, we enable citizens to turn awareness into action and make circular practices visible, relevant, and aspirational in daily life. Circular change only becomes real when it’s lived…
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Circular Culture
Circularity starts with people – their mindsets, habits, and values. In the Circular Culture impact area, we focus on empowering individuals and communities to make circular living visible, accessible, and part of daily life. Our programs use education, storytelling, and creative engagement to build a culture where sustainable choices become the new normal – in…
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Kickstarting Repair Culture in Berlin: The First Repair Deal Pop-Up Week
The Repair Deal Pop-Up Week proved that Berliners are eager to engage in hands-on, creative, and community-based sustainability initiatives. With a diverse program, strong partnerships, and valuable learnings, the event laid a solid foundation for future repair-centered activities. In July 2025, we as Circular Berlin, hosted the first-ever Repair Deal Pop-Up Week in Berlin-Kreuzberg. This…
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From Fiber to Function: Closing the Loop on E-Textiles
In November 2024, we had the opportunity to present key insights on sustainability and circular economy in the field of electronic textiles at the E-Textiles Conference in Berlin. But what happens when smart technologies meet linear textile systems? E-textiles are considered a promising innovation — yet from a circular economy perspective, they raise complex questions: How…
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SOLSTICE: Rs Strategies for a Circular Textiles Economy
The SOLSTICE project is funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe framework program and aims to promote climate-neutral practices and the transition to a circular economy in the textile industry. The project follows a systemic and holistic approach that considers all phases of waste prevention and is guided by the 5R strategies: Refuse / Reduce, Reuse,…
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Fit für Circular Economy: integrating circularity into schools’ curricula
Funders Berlin Senat Department for Economy, Energy and Businesses (SenWeb) Partners Fachhochschule Potsdam and IHK Berlin Dates June 2024 – May 2026 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder Awareness and understanding of the principles of the Circular Economy are the essential for the development of a sustainable and resilient economy. Integrating Circular Economy theories…
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Essay: “Revalue your clothes – implementing a circular textiles economy”
Written by published in 3rd BKHS Magazine grows a valuable cooperation for our upcoming exchange project between Ghana & Germany We are excited and proud to announce our publication titled „Revalue your clothes – implementing a circular textiles economy” in the third edition of the Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt Foundation Magazin on this year´s topic “Remaking…
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ARCA: combining creativity, sustainability and inclusivity in fashion
Funders European Cooperation projects (CREA-CULT-2023-COOP) under grant agreement number: Project 101131677 Partners Baumhaus Societa (Bologna, It) and Lantoki (Barcelona, Es) Dates November 2023 – October 2025 Get in touch Arianna Nicoletti Textiles & Education Lead The ARCA project experiments with a European transnational co-design and co-creation process to develop a prototype of an Agender Circular…
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Exploring circularity in Berlin with Circular City Guide
Funders Postcode Lotterie Partners ildsjeler.studio / Inga Mücke Dates March 2023 – October 2023 Get in touch As a compact guide, the Circular City Guide Berlin explains what urban circularity means and shows locally, unconventionally and in a variety of ways how a resource-conserving everyday life can work for Berliners. In addition to communicating municipal…
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Textile Journeys – an interactive deep dive into Berlin’s discarded textiles
New Years eve in Berlin has just passed, and unfortunately (but predictably) the streets are covered in the waste that an all-out evening of fireworks leaves behind – plastic shards, wooden sticks, damp cardboard and an odd looking red dust. But look a little closer, and in amongst this you’ll see a pair of jeans…
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The vision of the Hause of Transformation in Berlin
Funders Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW) Partners Sustainable Design Center e.V., Dost Architektur, Circular Structural Design, Concular Dates June 2021 – May 2022 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The “House of Transformation” is to be built on the campus of the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW). Together we have…
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Reusables in gastronomy – increasing awareness and adoption of Mehrweg in Berlin.
It is almost as if you can hear the giant sigh of relief as the weather gets nicer, the masks come off, and the people of Berlin opt to enjoy their favorite foods in the park, instead of at the cafe/restaurant. A reason to celebrate, right? Yes and no. It has been a rough two+…
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Circular City Business Tour Berlin – An exchange program with Israeli enterprises.
Between the 22-25th of November 2021 Re-Fresh Global & Circular Berlin ran a 3 day exchange program in Berlin for Israeli organizations, textile manufacturers and experts working in different fields of circular economy and social entrepreneurship. The activities were supported by the Israel Economic & Trade Mission, Germany, and the German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation. The…
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Increasing use of Reusables in Gastronomy in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Funders Bezirksamt Friedrichshain – Kreuzberg Partners NEW STANDARD.STUDIO Dates January 2022 – December 2022 Get in touch Increased out-of-home consumption, as well as the shift of activities outdoors due to the Corona pandemic has shown that improper disposal of single-use and take-away containers of any form (e.g., styrofoam, plastic, plastic-coated cardboard, paper/cardboard, aluminium, glass, etc.)…
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A-GAIN GUIDE findet die einfachsten Lösungen für deine gebrauchte Kleidung.
Gleich um die Ecke. Ein Interview mit Arianna Nicoletti. Im September hat Circular Berlin eine Premiere gefeiert: gemeinsam mit Stefanie Barz und Alessandra-Isabel Hager von LoopLook hat Arianna Nicoletti, Textiles & Fashion Lead von Circular Berlin, eine neue digitale Plattform A-GAIN GUIDE gestartet, die den Nutzer:innen die besten und kreativsten Lösungen für ihre gebrauchte Kleidung…
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The circular approaches to work with aluminium composite panels.
On 07-08.10, as part of the Haus der Materialisierung project, Material Mafia, together with Circular Berlin and TU Berlin, organised the second seminar and the workshop on the topic: Aluminium Dibond. An aluminium Dibond is a sandwich panel. It is known as a brand for a rigid composite material that belongs to the manufacturer 3A Composites, Singen. In our…
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A-gain Guide: textile solutions for the consumer in Berlin
Funders Senat MVKU, Senat WEB, Postcode Lotterie Partners LoopLook, Büro Bum Bum, Cecilia Palmer, New Standard Studio Dates From June 2021 Get in touch Arianna Nicoletti Textiles & Education Lead Our A-gain Guide is a digital platform, designed to guide the user through the best options to locally repair, reuse and recycle their unwanted clothes…
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Why should we care about Printing Blankets?
On 03-04.06, as part of the Haus der Materialisierung project, Material Mafia, together with Circular Berlin and TU Berlin, organised the first seminar and the workshop on the topic of Printing Blankets You would ask: Printing Blankets? The rubber printing blanket is used in the process of offset printing. It is stretched around a printing…
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German-Israeli Circular Textiles City Leaders exchange 2021
Funders Deutsche-Israeli Zukunftsstiftung Partners Re-fresh Global, Circular Berlin Dates February 2021 – December 2021 Get in touch Arianna Nicoletti Textiles & Education Lead A new business exchange program for sustainability entrepreneurs, brands, recycling companies, policy makers and other stakeholders, who are interested in reducing textile waste and innovating waste management practices in cities.The program is…
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Report: Investigating the potential of Centers for Urban Remanufacture
Written by CURE, Centres for Urban Remanufacture, is an international research project aimed to promote material recovery through re-manufacture in different cities. The CURE Pathfinder project explored the possibility of establishing Centres for Urban Re-manufacture (CUREs) in different cities, estimated the potential benefit these centres may generate in Berlin and Gothenburg and tried to engage…
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Making secondary materials usage a common practice (Haus der Materialisierung)
Funders Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) Partners Technische Universität Berlin, ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG, Material Mafia Dates December 2019 – December 2022 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The Haus der Materialisierung is Berlin’s pioneering centre for secondary materials. It aims to make their usage common practice in the city, by bringing together secondary material collectors…
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Circular school: educating children about circularity
Funders Berliner Projektfonds kulturelle Bildung Partners Zero Waste Your Life, Mifactori and Kreativitätsschulzentrum Karlshorst. Dates Fall 2019 – Summer 2020 Get in touch Over the course of one school year, a total of approximately 300 elementary school students in Berlin-Karlshorst from grades one to six learned about the basics of circularity and explored how to…
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Workshop results: Berlin Circular Fashion approach
At the beginning of 2019 Circular Berlin and Future Fashion Forward e.V. teamed up to organize the fourth and last workshop of the Circular Berlin event series targeting the issues of local waste streams in Berlin and bringing together municipalities and industry actors in different fields. After looking at the Construction Industry, at Material Urban Remanufacturing specifics…
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Presenting Berlin’s pioneering learning center for resource recovery and zero-waste activities
On the 7th of May ZUsammenKUNFT, Kunst-Stoffe, Material Mafia, Circular Berlin and the Chair of Circular Economy and Recycling Technologies of TU-Berlin presented the idea of establishing a “Haus der Materialisierung” as one of the pioneer users at the Haus der Statistik initiative. The event took place at the Werkstatt of the Haus der Statistik,…
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Designing Away Waste: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Reuse and Remanufacture Initiatives
Designing Away Waste: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Reuse and Remanufacture Initiatives Transformation towards the circular city or circular society is a long process, which is hardly explored. It is a process where the outcomes are not fully predictable. Despite the fact that a lot of research was already initiated in the last years to…
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Workshop results: Circular economy in the Berlin food sector
On the 26.02 Circular Berlin together with the partners Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie, visitBerlin, HealthCapital, and BeShared hosted our third multi-stakeholder workshop on the topic of Circular Economy potentials for Food and Biomass streams in Berlin and Berlin religion. The challenges of food waste, unsustainable agriculture and alternative ways of dealing with the biomass were addressed during the…
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Workshop results: Center for Urban Remanufacture
On the 06.12 Circular Berlin together with the CURE project partners (TU Berlin – Chair for Circular Economy and Recycling Technologies, Material Mafia, and OMA e.V.) hosted a workshop on the topic of Berlin Center for Urban REmanufacture. Already during the preparation phase, we were more than excited to receive more than 100 registrations from…
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Building the circular economy agenda for Berlin
Funders EIT Climate-KIC Partners Circular Berlin Dates April-August 2018 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The Circular Berlin project started as an exploratory study at the start of 2018, with the idea to establish a coordinated network that connects key stakeholders in order to have more influence on local policies and regulations in the…