Resilient Cities brings together a network of partners ranging from design experts to change managers, moderators, programmers, climate adaptation managers, activists and former mayors. As a transdisciplinary network, RC develops new formats from practice, science, design, pedagogy and process management. Resilient Cities is a spin-off from the research project GoingVis, that was funded twice by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, building on 7 years of experience in participation, event design and collaborative place making for climate adaptation in small cities.
Dipl. Des. Johannes Tolk is founder of Resilient Cities. With his design studio TOLK, he has been working for 15 years on creating digital, analog, and hybrid narrative structures for conflict resolution, processes of change, art, and capacity building.
Doris Wietfeldt works as a Change Manager and trainer for intercultural competence. In her long-standing career as a licensed mediator and BM® trainer, she has learned to guide structural transformation processes through difficult phases. It is often from points of friction, contrasts, and resistance that the necessary impulses for change can be derived.
Daniel founded and led the Federal Association for Climate Protection, advises actors and ministries nationwide on climate adaptation, is the chair of the Friends of the Technical Monument Brikettfabrik LOUISE, and a network manager at the Institute for Mining Afteruse in Finsterwalde.
Andreas is an experienced and successful climate thinker and leader in rural areas. During his time as mayor, the small town of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück was awarded the title of “Climate-Active Municipality” by the BMUV in 2016. With the team of the civil society platform Leuchtturm LOUISE, he won the public prize in the UBA competition “Blauer Kompass” for climate adaptation in 2022. Currently, he is advancing the renaturation of the Schwarze Elster River, one of the least natural rivers in Germany, with the Action Alliance Schwarze Elster. The goal is to store water in the soil and stabilize groundwater levels. Water availability is a fundamental prerequisite for climate-stable forest transformation and thus for future-proof climate adaptation.
Lina Lange was the climate protection manager in Erkner until 2023 and supported the development of the methods of Resilient Cities as a practical partner.
Tanja Seiner works as an exhibition curator, making scientific and societal issues tangible and opening up multiperspective approaches. She curated exhibitions for Marta Herford, the Design Museum Gent, Lothringer 13 Halle, and the Natural History Museum in Bavaria in Munich, and developed festival programs and new formats for science communication for BIOTOPIA and the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden.
As a founding member, supervisory board member, and resident of the housing cooperative Kooperative Großstadt, she gained experience in participatory processes, addressing new ways of communal living and their architectural implementation.
Dominik is a co-founder of Resilient Cities and co-developed the 8-Week Ideas format.
For our training camps, we are guests at Leuchtturm LOUISE , the transformation site in the world’s oldest preserved briquette factory.