Stille Strasse 10 + Assemble

Description:

In 2012, a group of pensioners squatted in a senior sentre located in the Pankow district of Berlin, after the local government decided to sell the property. The members of the group occupied the building for 112 days and took the initiative to organise and run it themselves. The fate of the place is still unresolved. The London-based architecture collective Assemble set up a dialogue with the group about community building, active citizenship, and housing for the elderly and have developed a housing model for Wohnungsfrage based on spaces for shared activities.

subjects: Older people,  Political activity,  Senior centers,  Services for,  Housing,  Communal living

Places: Germany,  Berlin