Haus der Statistik
Center for social, artistic and creative activities
Ongoing
In 2015, together with Raumlabor Berlin, AbBa, and the Berlin Atelier Representatives, ZK/U established a working group to save and revitalize the "Haus der Statistik" at Berlin's Alexanderplatz. The original DDR structure of the building, with over 40,000 square meters of usable space, is intended to become affordable housing for refugees and workspaces for art, culture, and education. Meeting areas, co-living, and co-working approaches create mutual synergies of integration between the protagonists and the neighborhood. The house could become a prototype that represents an innovative and integrative practice by uniting culture, education, and social engagement under one roof.
To establish a legal form for contractual collaboration with potential partners, the development cooperative ZKB ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG – Cooperative for Urban Development emerged from the initiative in 2016.
Since January 2018, ZKB eG has been the civil society part of the so-called Koop5. Together with the Senate Administration, the Berlin-Mitte District Office, and the state-owned companies WBM and BIM, we are working on the community-oriented development of the Haus der Statistik.
