Marielle Scharfenberg
A Place to B(z)

The workshop invites participants to explore the urban environment through the lens of the Right to the City and Urban Commons. Starting with a collective walk, participants will engage in a sensory mapping exercise to identify both barriers and potentials in public spaces — from accessibility challenges to hidden pockets of community life. By combining observation, photography, and collective mapping, the workshop fosters a critical reflection on how public spaces are distributed, accessed, and experienced. In the second part, participants will co-develop small-scale intervention concepts that address the identified issues, imagining temporary installations, citizen-driven initiatives, or participatory design actions that promote more inclusive and vibrant public spaces.

About

Marielle Scharfenberg, is an Eco-Social Designer and Community Organizer working at the intersection of design, social projects, and sustainable development. Through systemic thinking and a multidisciplinary approach, she combines creative design methods with community-building practicesto co-create more Wequitable andsustainable communities. Her work focuses on translating complex social and ecological challenges into tangible solutions, while fostering collaborative processes and collective agency.