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How might places serving the community look and function in the future? How can a building project add social and civic value? We are breaking new ground in urban planning to develop a new neighborhood in Lörrach.

What makes a place worth living in? Where is the unused and overlooked potential of how we live together?

When an urban planning project comes along, no one is better placed to answer these questions than the people who actually live in the neighborhood in question. But this local knowledge is not usually taken into account when building projects are conceived.

The Schöpflin Foundation wants to demonstrate that there is a different way to do urban planning.

When we decided to develop a 15,000-square-meter brownfield site opposite the Foundation's headquarters in Lörrach’s Brombach district, we looked for alternative approaches to urban development. We wanted to do this for our region – but also ensure that it has an impact further afield as well.

Using a creative participatory planning process, the neighbors of the future Schöpflin Quarter, Schöpflin Foundation employees and all interested parties were asked for their ideas and wishes for the site. The overall thrust of the results showed that there was a desire for a place of community that emphasizes togetherness.

Until the Schöpflin Quarter project is complete, we invite you to come together to use the space as it currently exists. With its projects, film evenings, play activities for children and a community garden, the area on Franz-Ehret-Strasse is already a place of sociocultulral encounters and togetherness - a participatory space for everyone!