Author: Baumhaus Berlin

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We need more financing and volunteers to stay on track to open September 24!

Now we need your help to realise this project or there is a good chance that we will not make it and the Baumhaus project COULD BE EFFECTIVELY OVER unless there is another miracle out there waiting for us…

Contribute to our crowd funding until August 9 :: Volunteer to help build until September 20 (See below for links and details)

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[:de]Während unseres achten vertikalen Gartentreffens am 27. Juli 2016 haben wir uns Bleistifte und Malstifte gegriffen und einige schöne Skizzen für unseren „Lush Jungle” Vertikalen Garten gezeichnet. Der hydroponische, d.h. erdfreie Garten, wird nicht nur eine große pflanzenbedeckte Fläche werden, sondern wir wollen ein Muster entwerfen, das sich gut in die organische Architektur des Baumhauses einfügt. Am Ende des Treffens haben wir eine Rangordnung gemacht, um herauszufinden welche Skizzen am besten sind. In unserem nächsten Treffen müssen wir dann herausfinden, ob diese auch tatsächlich umsetzbar sind.

[:en]In our eighth vertical gardening meeting on July 27, 2016, we grabbed pencils and coloring pens and made  some nice sketches for our indoor “Lush Jungle” Vertical Garden. The hydroponic, i.e. soil free garden, is not only going to be a large surface area covered with plants but we want to create a pattern so it fits in with the organic architecture of the Baumhaus space. At the end of the meeting we ranked the sketches to find out which ones are the most suitable. During our next meeting we have to find out if the pattern works with the watering system.

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Habt ihr Fragen und wollt mehr wissen über das Baumhaus und den Stand der Dinge?

Wir laden euch herzlich zu einem Google Video Hangout ein, am Sonntag den 31. Juli um 19 Uhr. Karen und Scott, die Mitgründer vom Baumhausprojekt, werden ein bißchen etwas über das Projekt erzählen und eure Fragen beantworten. Wenn ihr dann keine Zeit habt, könnt ihr uns auch vorher Fragen schreiben und das Gespräch später ansehen. Über diesen Link könnt ihr am Hangout teilnehmen. Und natürlich könnt ihr uns auch einfach per Email kontaktieren, oder Donnerstag nachmittags zur ‘open office hour’ bei uns auf der Baustelle vorbeischauen…

Danke,

Karen & Scott & The Entire Baumhaus Team[:en]

This will be a 1 hour live video hangout where the founders of Das Baumhaus Berlin, Karen Wohlert and Scott Bolden will give a short introduction to the project and then spend the rest of the time answering your questions. Questions can be asked and answered in german or english live by video chat or text.

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You can also send questions in english or german to: baumhausberlin@gmail.com before the hangout

Why We Are Doing This…

We want to make sure people understand what we are doing with the project, how it works and why we need support for our crowd-funding campaign ending on August 9, 2016. We have a friend who will contribute 7.500€ if we can raise that much more by August 9 so that we meet our funding threshold and get the money! That means we just have to raise a bit under 5.000€ until August 9!

This video chat will be recorded and posted for later viewing.

Thanks,

Karen & Scott & The Entire Baumhaus Team[:]

[:de]The Baumhaus grand opening will be on the weekend of September 23-25 as a part of our Annual Emergent Berlin Festival.

In June, we built the engineering prototype, documented it and unbuilt it so we can get it approved and rebuilt in January.

We can ONLY realize this with YOUR HELP. We need to get at least 15.000€ through our crowd-funding to make this happen. Please chip in 5€, the price of 2 beers, or almost a trip there and back on the U-Bahn… What is it worth to you to help us create a space we can all use everyday to make the world a better place.

EN https://www.startnext.com/en/baumhausberlin
DE https://www.startnext.com/baumhausberlin

We have done all we can do… now we need your help to reach our goal until AUGUST 9!

Please ask your friends and family to contribute adn if they need convincing show them our short 2 min film “It’s Not Too Late…”:

In the meantime, here is what else got done:

• The sound-proof ceiling finsihed being installed

• We prototyped our upcycled magnetic clay wall concept

• We had our 7th Vertical and Permaculture garden meeting focussing on Vermiculture, making fertile soil with worms and compost. next meeting is 27.07 on plant selection.

• Pop Chor Berlin did a rehearsal and recorded our theme song plus a new one we improvised together. Next improv singing event is 04.08.

• Every week, we got a delivery form our local bio-farmer as part of our neighborhood CSA group.

• On the same day, Radio Eins broadcasted live from the Baumhaus all day, while we worked on design details for the bar and bathrooms. Later that evening we had our Soli-party with Dr. Alex Paterson form the Orb. We listen to his set while we work. Dr Alex will come back on Sept 24th and play our grand openign party at Panke e.V. in our building! LISTEN TO OUR INTERVIEW HERE (auf Deutsche!):

• We made good progress tiling the floors in the kitchen and toilet rooms.

• We hosted an event with Silke Gebel from the Green Party of Berlin and our partners Himmelbeet community garden and Wedding Wandler (local transition town network) about how to make our neighborhood ‘Zero Waste’ .

• We also hosted a hack-a-thon with our lighting team and several other participants as part of the Tech Open Air fetstival. We designed our manufacturing process for floor sensors that we will build, we defined some lighting scenarios for our sentient lighting, we prototyped the lighting for our glass mosaic art work and we installed the new wireless controller into the Orchid Lamp.

• Hilke brought by more rescued food to add to what we got from The Real Junk food Project so we can feed our volunteers healthy food.

Join In to help build the space and the program THIS and the NEXT WEEKS:

http://www.baumhausberlin.de/en/building/mitbauen/

We will be:

Doing design work on the bar, building the interior of the kitchen, doing design work on the back room and planning mosaic work… Plus a whole lot more!

p.s. FLUX fm will be here during the day Weds 27.07.2016 from 9:30 until 11:00 in the morning to check us out, do interviews with our helpers and do a story on our crowd-funding![:en]The Baumhaus grand opening will be on the weekend of September 23-25 as a part of our Annual Emergent Berlin Festival.

In June, we built the engineering prototype, documented it and unbuilt it so we can get it approved and rebuilt in January.

We can ONLY realize this with YOUR HELP. We need to get at least 15.000€ through our crowd-funding to make this happen. Please chip in 5€, the price of 2 beers, or almost a trip there and back on the U-Bahn… What is it worth to you to help us create a space we can all use everyday to make the world a better place.

EN https://www.startnext.com/en/baumhausberlin
DE https://www.startnext.com/baumhausberlin

We have done all we can do… now we need your help to reach our goal until AUGUST 9!

Please ask your friends and family to contribute adn if they need convincing show them our short 2 min film “It’s Not Too Late…”:

In the meantime, here is what else got done:

• The sound-proof ceiling finsihed being installed

• We prototyped our upcycled magnetic clay wall concept

• We had our 7th Vertical and Permaculture garden meeting focussing on Vermiculture, making fertile soil with worms and compost. next meeting is 27.07 on plant selection.

• Pop Chor Berlin did a rehearsal and recorded our theme song plus a new one we improvised together. Next improv singing event is 04.08.

• Every week, we got a delivery form our local bio-farmer as part of our neighborhood CSA group.

• On the same day, Radio Eins broadcasted live from the Baumhaus all day, while we worked on design details for the bar and bathrooms. Later that evening we had our Soli-party with Dr. Alex Paterson form the Orb. We listen to his set while we work. Dr Alex will come back on Sept 24th and play our grand openign party at Panke e.V. in our building! LISTEN TO OUR INTERVIEW HERE (auf Deutsche!):

• We made good progress tiling the floors in the kitchen and toilet rooms.

• We hosted an event with Silke Gebel from the Green Party of Berlin and our partners Himmelbeet community garden and Wedding Wandler (local transition town network) about how to make our neighborhood ‘Zero Waste’ .

• We also hosted a hack-a-thon with our lighting team and several other participants as part of the Tech Open Air fetstival. We designed our manufacturing process for floor sensors that we will build, we defined some lighting scenarios for our sentient lighting, we prototyped the lighting for our glass mosaic art work and we installed the new wireless controller into the Orchid Lamp.

• Hilke brought by more rescued food to add to what we got from The Real Junk food Project so we can feed our volunteers healthy food.

Join In to help build the space and the program THIS and the NEXT WEEKS:

http://www.baumhausberlin.de/en/building/mitbauen/

We will be:

Doing design work on the bar, building the interior of the kitchen, doing design work on the back room and planning mosaic work… Plus a whole lot more!

p.s. FLUX fm will be here during the day Weds 27.07.2016 from 9:30 until 11:00 in the morning to check us out, do interviews with our helpers and do a story on our crowd-funding![:]

When: Friday 15.07.16 13:00 – 19:00

Where: Baumhaus Berlin, Gerichtstrasse 23, 13347 Berlin

Price: FREE

We are developing various different lighting installations for Das Baumhaus that will be reactive to visitors of the space as well as pre-programable and manual options. All the installations will communicate with each other via bluetooth and be triggered by sensors in the floor and the locations.

We are looking for hackers, designers, engineers, builders, makers and artists who would like to participate in a day long hack-a-thon to help develop some more installations.

Some of the lighting projects we are working on will be installed in the Baumhaus when it opens September 23, 2016.  Other installations will be continuously installed over the next year.  Participants in this workshop are invited to join our all volunteer lighting team to develop new lighting installations and products.  There are also many other different ways to join the general Baumhaus project…

Current lighting projects include

• Orchid Lamp – one is done, 2 more are planned (aesthetic design, building, programming)

• Achiele Flower Lamp – Still needs programming

• Isaac Abrams sandblasted glass panels – Building the frame and lighting it

Please let us know to expect you by booking FREE ticket on eventbrite.

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This event is part of Tech Open Air festival. To learn more about TOA16 and book your conference tickets, visit toa.berlin.

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Als Teil des letzten Anstoßes für unsere Crowdfunding-Kampagne haben wir ein paar besondere neue Gegenleistungen zu unserer startnext Seite hinzugefügt. Daniel Hires, ein Sozialunternehmer, Aktivist und langjähriger Baumhaus-Unterstützer bietet auch einige sehr spannende Preise an.

In diesem Interview teilt Daniel uns mit, wie wir mit dem Baumhaus-Projekt eine bessere Welt ermöglichen könnten und weshalb Leute uns unterstützen sollten.

HIER könnt ihr uns bis zum 17. Juli unterstützen!

Es ist nicht zu spät…

#ItsNotTooLate

http://climateparade.org

http://germany.makesense.org

http://www.projecthires.com[:en]As part of our final push we have added some special new rewards to our crowdfunding featuring some nice offerings from social entrepreneur and activist Daniel Hires who has supported the Baumhaus from early on.

We sat down with him to share some of his thoughts on how to make the world a better place through Das Baumhaus and why he thinks people should support us!

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[:de]Ein kleines aber feines Interview zum Baumhaus Projekt mit Silke Gebel, umweltpolitische Sprecherin Bündnis 90/Grüne im Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin.

Teilt ihr Silkes Meinung über das Projekt? Dann freuen wir uns über jede Spende zu unserer Crowdfunding-Kampagne. Wir haben nur noch ein paar Tage um am 17. Juli unser Ziel zu erreichen.

[:en]Here is a short yet sweet interview about the Baumhaus project with Silke Gebel,  a member of the Berlin parliament for the Green party and speaker for environmental policy.

Do you agree with Silke? If so, please support our crowdfunding campaign. We have until the 17th July to reach our goal!

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[:de]Schaut euch unsere neuen, schicken Baumhaus T-Shirts an! Die fair-gehandelten Baumwoll-T-Shirts stehen denjenigen Helden, die uns in den letzten Tagen unsere Crowdfunding-Kampagne unterstützen, zur Verfügung! Zur Auswahl gibt es diese vier Farben oder ihr könnt euch eine andere beliebige Farbe auswählen.

Die schöne Baumhaus-Grafik hat uns Susan Sanford designt und gespendet.

[:en]Check out these groovy fair-trade cotton Baumhaus T-shirts, available to all heroes donating to our crowdfunding campaign in the last days! Choose from one of these four colours, or any other of your choice.

Beautiful Baumhaus artwork designed and donated by Susan Sanford

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[:de]Schaut euch hier die schöne Tip-Story  ‘Drehkreuze in die Stadt’ von unserer Baumhaus Projektmanagerin Anna-Marie Nehl an!

[:en]Check out this great Tip article (in German) about hubs for social change in Berlin, written by our very own project manager, Anna-Marie Nehl!

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Am vergangenen Freitag berichtete Radio Eins live den ganzen Tag über von der Gerichtstrasse, direkt vor dem Baumhausraum, als Teil ihres Programms ‘Die Schöne Straße’. Hier könnt ihr ein nettes Interview zu unserem Projekt mit Mitgründer Scott Bolden und der freiwilligen Helferin Luise Graeff hören.

[:en]Last Friday, Radio Eins broadcast live all day long from right in front of Das Baumhaus – they had chosen Gerichtstrasse as their latest most exciting street in Berlin for their ‘Schöne Straße’ programme. Listen to a lovely interview (in German) with Baumhaus Co-Founder Scott Bolden and volunteer Luise Graeff about the project here.

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