Kollektiv Raumstation

What Kollektiv Raumstation does

Kollektiv Raumstation is a self-organized, basis-democratic, queer-feminist artistic collective founded in 2013 in Weimar, Germany, focused on urban interventions, spatial research, and community engagement. It operates as a network of four regional groups ("Raumschiffe") in Weimar, Berlin, Vienna, and Zürich, serving local governments, citizen groups, and cultural institutions across German-speaking Central Europe. Its work takes the form of public space interventions, participatory installations, workshops, performances, and publications, addressing issues such as car-centric urban design, public participation in planning, and community self-organization. Target counterparties include municipalities (Stadt Germering, IBA Thüringen, Bezirkskulturfonds Mitte zu Berlin), cultural capital programs (Kulturhauptstadt Salzkammergut 2024, City of Chemnitz 2025), design weeks (Vienna Design Week), and foundations (Robert Bosch Stiftung, Goethe-Institut, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung).

The collective has no proprietary technology platform; its "products" are services and publications. The flagship output is the 350+ page "Organisiert euch! Zusammen die Stadt verändern" handbook (2020), co-developed with Swiss collective Urban Equipe and awarded the Silberner Hase in Design in 2021. Other offerings include the "Galaktischer Newsletter" email subscription and project documentation (audiowalks, video installations, articles). Underlying deliverables are produced through artistic research methodologies, participatory processes, and direct public engagement rather than software or hardware products. Notable outcomes include a permanent parking-to-bicycle-parking conversion in Germering following the "Institut für Wertschätzung" action week, and a unanimously approved city council review of speed limits and bicycle infrastructure.

Kollektiv Raumstation operates as a non-profit association, with the Vienna branch legally registered as "Raumstation Wien – Verein für Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft" (ZVR: 1465227821, Fillgradergasse 2/11, 1060 Wien). Revenue is generated through publicly funded project grants from cultural ministries, municipal governments, and foundations, supplemented by educational workshops and occasional publication sales. Most activities are free for participants; the handbook is available as a free PDF download, with a printed first edition nearly sold out. The collective has no external investors, parent company, or commercial revenue streams, and governance is distributed among members through basis-democratic plenary processes coordinated by three named representatives (Sarah Zelt, Lilia Jantzen, Alina Noll) in Vienna.

Name

Kollektiv Raumstation

Legal name

Raumstation Wien – Verein für Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft

Website

https://raumstation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Kollektiv Raumstation is a self-organized, non-profit artistic collective founded in 2013, operating across four German-speaking cities (Weimar, Berlin, Vienna, Zürich) to reimagine urban public spaces through participatory interventions, workshops, and publications for municipalities, citizen groups, and cultural institutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Arts and Culture Services

NAICS

Civic and Social Organizations (813410), Other Similar Organizations (except Business, Professional, Labor, and Political Organizations) (81399)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Arts, Culture & Creative Placemaking Enterprises (BPAGALAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cultural Centers & Community Cultural Organizations (BPAGAHAD), Public Art, Arts Councils & Grantmaking Programs (BPAGAHAH)

Keywords

• Urban interventions
• Public space activation
• Artistic research
• Community engagement
• Spatial practice

Headquarters

HQ city

Weimar

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Project Funding and Grants: Kollektiv Raumstation operates primarily through publicly funded project grants from cultural ministries, municipal governments, and foundations. Revenue comes from project-based funding for specific urban intervention, artistic research, and community engagement initiatives.
2. Educational Workshops and Publications: The collective generates revenue through educational workshops, handbooks (such as the 'Organisiert euch!' handbook), and publications documenting their methodologies and project outcomes.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Kollektiv Raumstation is a self-organized, basis-democratic art and culture collective that conducts urban interventions, artistic research, and participatory public space projects across German-speaking Central Europe. It delivers workshops, exhibitions, publications (notably the 'Organisiert euch!' handbook), and on-site spatial interventions commissioned or funded by municipalities, cultural ministries, and foundations. The collective operates a network of four regional 'spaceships' in Weimar, Berlin, Vienna, and Zürich, engaging citizens, local governments, and urban practitioners through performative and educational activities.

Product overview

Kollektiv Raumstation is an art, culture, and science collective focused on urban interventions and public space projects. Rather than offering commercial software products, the collective provides a newsletter subscription service for staying informed about activities, and publishes the 'Organisiert euch!' handbook—a practical guide for self-organization in collective groups. The collective operates through artistic research projects, workshops, and community engagement activities rather than traditional product offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Galaktischer Newsletter Email newsletter subscription that keeps interested subscribers informed about the collective's urban intervention projects, events, and activities.
• Organisiert euch! Handbook (Zusammen die Stadt verändern) A 350-page practical handbook for collective self-organization containing concrete guides, downloadable templates, and real-world examples for engaged citizen groups and urban activists.

Quantifiable outcome

• Directly influenced urban policy: following 'Institut für Wertschätzung' in Germering, a parking space was permanently converted to bicycle parking and benches, and the city council unanimously approved reviewing speed limits and additional bicycle infrastructure
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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Partnerships

23 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Kultur MittecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026Partner for 'Schwimmer, Schwäne, Naturschutzpläne' project at Plötzensee. Kultur Mitte manages the Bezirkskulturfonds Mitte that funds cultural projects in Berlin Mitte district.
• Schiller-Bibliothek MitteminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026Venue partner for October 2026 exhibition of the 'Schwimmer, Schwäne, Naturschutzpläne' video installation in the library foyer.
• Vienna Design WeekcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2025Annual partner for exhibitions and workshops. Raumstation participated with ARCHIV DER ANEIGNUNG (2025), 'Institut für Wertschätzung' (2020), and participated in talks on collective organization (2022).
• HTU Wien (Hochschülerinnen- und Hochschülerschaft an der TU Wien)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2025Partner for 'Zukunft: Althangrund' project series exploring the utopian potential of Vienna's Althangrund area.
• enter – Junge Kulturregion ChemnitzminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2025Client for 'Matchmaking in Chemnitz' workshop organized during Chemnitz's European Capital of Culture year 2025, connecting young people with event venues.
• Plateau BlocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2024Host partner for S.E.E.A.M.T. residency at Traunsee. Plateau Blo is an initiative that served as the research station base for the artistic exploration project.
• RaumarbeiterinnenminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2024Partner organization for the S.E.E.A.M.T. project exploring Traunsee's shoreline metamorphoses and territories.
• Kulturhauptstadt Salzkammergut 2024coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2024Cultural Capital of Europe 2024 program that provided framework and funding for S.E.E.A.M.T. project at Traunsee/Gmunden.
• Pirate CulturesminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2024Partner for 'Pirate Cultures: Unter dem Asphalt der Strand' exhibition; Raumstation delivered two tons of sand to Semmelweisklinik for the exhibition.
• Vienna Architecture Summer SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2022Ongoing educational partner; Raumstation provided workshop modules for VASS² (Vienna Architecture Summer School) on topics including gender and public space (2022) and critical collaborative mapping (2023).
• Stadt GermeringcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2022Municipal partner for 'Institut für Wertschätzung' action week. The city provided support for the temporary 'Raumforschungsstation' and later implemented permanent changes resulting from the project.
• Mosaik – Politik neu zusammensetzenminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2021Partner for 'Bitte halten Sie die Grünflächen rein und die Hunde fern' podcast on care work in Vienna's municipal housing (Gemeindebau).
• Radio Orange 94.0minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 October 2021Broadcast partner for the podcast on care work in Vienna's municipal housing.
• Bye Bye Petite CeintureminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2019Partner for 'Apér/0 Waterl/0' cross-border mobility activism event in Brussels.
• 1060/0minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2019Vienna-based partner organization for Brussels intervention event.
• IBA ThüringencoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2019Key strategic partner for multiple projects including Hotel Egon in Apolda (2019) and Geranien project in Gera. IBA Thüringen has been supporting urban development projects in rural Thuringia since 2013 with the central theme of 'STADTLAND'.
• TeleinternetcafeminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2019Partner in the Hotel Egon project alongside ON/OFF and StadtRaumWandel. Contributed to digital infrastructure development for the temporary hotel operation.
• ON/OFFminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2019Partner in the Hotel Egon project. Contributed to physical infrastructure completion for the temporary hotel operation.
• StadtRaumWandelminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2019Partner in the Hotel Egon project. Contributed graphic design for the Hotel Egon operations.
• Urban EquipecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2019Co-development partner for the 'Organisiert euch! Zusammen die Stadt verändern' handbook, a 350+ page practical guide for collective action. Urban Equipe is a Swiss collective working on similar self-organization themes.
• space and placecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2018Curator of 'Wien lebt 2018: Auf der Wohnstraße' program. Space and place curated the broader program under which Raumstation executed Wohnstrassenleben interventions.
• geht-doch.wienminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2018Partner organization for the Wohnstrassenleben project, contributing to the activation of Vienna's residential streets.
• GrätzloasecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2017Ongoing partner for multiple Vienna projects including Verkehrsinsel-Resort Wien. Grätzloase supports grassroots initiatives for public space activation in Vienna neighborhoods.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• StadtRaumWandel: Austrian collective producing urban-communication and design projects; partner of Kollektiv Raumstation on the Hotel Egon project in Apolda. Comparable as a DACH-region civic-design collective working on temporary urbanism.
• Topotek 1: Berlin landscape-architecture collective producing temporary and permanent urban interventions and design research. Comparable in the participatory, research-driven delivery of public-space projects across Germany.
• Urban Equipe: Swiss collective working on self-organization themes in public space; co-developed the 'Organisiert euch!' handbook with Kollektiv Raumstation. Directly comparable mission, governance model, and DACH-region operating geography.
• raumlabor berlin: Berlin-based interdisciplinary collective building experimental urban installations and interventions. Closest functional analog to Kollektiv Raumstation in German-speaking Europe, sharing the participatory-placemaking approach and cross-disciplinary team structure.
• Grätzlsoase: Vienna-based platform for grassroots neighborhood projects and public-space activation. Direct peer in the Viennese civic-placemaking ecosystem and ongoing partner of Kollektiv Raumstation.
• metroZones: Berlin-based collective for urban research and action that produces publications, interventions, and transnational projects on migration and the right to the city. Comparable in non-commercial, civic-engaged urban-research practice.

Broad incumbents

• The Architecture Foundation: London-based charity connecting architecture with public audiences through projects, exhibitions, and civic programs. Comparable in convening architecture with community engagement, though in the UK market.
• Aedes Architecture Forum: Berlin-based independent institution presenting architectural and urban-design exhibitions, research, and discourse. Comparable in operating urban-discourse programming in Germany, though at a more institutional scale.
• European Alternatives: European-wide civic organization promoting citizen engagement, transnational democracy, and cultural exchange across EU member states. Comparable in activist, non-commercial civic mission with EU-level scope.

Emerging players

• Center for Urban Pedagogy: NYC-based nonprofit using design and art to foster more informed civic participation. Comparable mission of participatory, design-driven civic engagement, though at a smaller US-focused scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

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