Robert Köpke, graduate from HFBK Hamburg and HGB Leipzig with a Master's degree in Curatorial Practice, currently works at the intersection of curation, design, and art. As a Research Associate at Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, he specializes in visualizing biodiversity data through mapping.

His work integrates art, design, and social engagement, emphasizing the significance of public spaces. Actively engaged in community-driven initiatives, he focuses on sustainability and collaborative design approaches. His contributions to projects such as the Floating University in Berlin and R-Urban in Paris highlight his talent for intertwining urban and ecological elements in his curatorial practice. Dedicated to reimagining social frameworks, Robert crafts participatory experiences that resonate with a broad and diverse audience.























Prinzessinnengarten,
ZUsammenKUNFT
    Together with refugees and local cultural initiatives, we started a garden at the ZUsammenKUNFT initiative, which took takes place from May 2016 to December 2017 in an old fifteen-storey hotel on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Since late 2015, the hotel has provided a home for new and old Berliners – refugee families and a few residents who own their own apartments there. Since May, local initiatives focused on social practices have been located on the top two floors. Here, fifteen socially committed groups and individuals work with refugees in a laboratory of coexistence and cooperation. 



ZUsammenKUNFT serves the prototype for a much larger project at the Haus der Statistik on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, which similarly aims to house low-income residents and refugees. Beyond the crucial need to integrate refugees into the society, ZUsammenKUNFT foregrounds the need to reimagine design and architecture by reviving the participation of residents, which was abandoned some fifty years ago by the housing practices of neoliberal economics. 
Key Role: Artistic practice
Location:
Berlin
Collaboration: Lisa Eggert, Lea Kirstein, Robert Köpke, Barbara Niklas, Kathrin Solbach, and guests of the class Felizia Berchtold (Konzeptdesign, HFBK Hamburg), Anna Bergrun Hallsteinsdottir (visual artist, Hamburg), Sara Björg Bjarnadottir (visual artist, Berlin) and Hye-Eun Kim (Konzeptdesign, HFBK Hamburg).
Partner: Nachbarschaftsakademie at the Prinzessinnengarten, new and old Berliners and cultural initiatives at the ZUsammenKUNFT project, Berlin.
Date: May 2016 – December 2017
Links: Design for the Living World