Building a proposition for future activities: Performing collaborative planning in Hamburg, Germany

The City of Hamburg launched the program Accommodation with Perspective Dwelling and started to build a new residential complex in a well-off area with (semi-)detached family houses. Collaborative planning with official or professional, civil society, and academic partners depend to a large degree on particular interests that are not always openly discussed. The project Building a Proposition for Future Activities took its name literally and focused on developing and strengthening existing and future agencies and activities on the part of refugees who have been accommodated in the newly built residential area. The chapter outlines case study of Urban Design’s approach and modes of play, and turns to the concrete live project, Building a Proposition for Future Activities. Without claiming a finished product or result, working with a series of takes is a first step of coming into play.