Immo Janssen

Immo Janssen is a mobility planner and research associate in the research group Co-Creation in Democratic Practice at the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Center Potsdam.

For three years, he has been coordinator of the Anlauf- und Koordinationsstelle für öffentliche Räume (AKöR), where he accompanied the transformation of the Samariterkiez and Lausitzer Platz, among others. As intermediary structure, AKöR supports cooperative initiatives from administration, science and civil society for the reuse and redesign of public (street) space for the common good. With AKöR, he developed and facilitated exchange formats such as the Scientific Advisory Forum for the municipal mobility transition and the StadtWERKSTATT Xhain pilot program. In this context, he worked with the RIFS (then IASS) on several occasions as a practice partner, including for the study "Offene Straßen - Pandemieresiliente öffentliche Stadträume" or as part of the "Evaluationsbericht der Verkehrsberuhigung im Samariterkiez".

He supported the TuneOurBlock project - Transforming Neighbourhoods on a Human Scale as a practice partner and advises Changing Cities e.V. e.g. in the local coordination of the Klima.Gesund.Kiezblock (DBU) project. During his previous career, he worked at the Department of Sustainable Urban Planning at TU Berlin and in the CHORA Conscious City Lab, at the interface of digitalization and participation.

At RIFS he is currently working on the projects:

• Sprachkompass (Language Compass), with the University of Vienna and Bern, funded by the Mercator Foundation
• KlimaKieze, with Berlin-Mitte district office and Heidelberg University, funded by the Federal Ministry for Environment and Consumer Protection (BMUV)
• KiezTransform, with Heidelberg University, FU Berlin and the RIFS Research Group on Urban Air Quality, Mobility, and Health (AQMH), funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Science (BMBF).