Who are Newcomers? Emerging artist, refugees, experts in the field of new media and urban migrants.
What is a Cooperative City? An urban acupuncture where the ownership of the production, distribution and ownership is in the hands of community cooperative.
How to reach the newcomers in the city?
Kahve Hane, in Turkish means a coffee house, was used as a place for reading books. In late 15th century two Syrian trades established a first coffee house in Istanbul. A Greek man, Pasqua Rosée, opened the first coffee house in London in 1652. Turkish proverb describes coffee as: “Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love.”
Kahve Hane Berlin is a safe space, a cooperative space, where will be possible to enjoy “good” coffee and other cooperative products. The library will host meeting with program of exhibition, discussion, workshops in the format of Blind Date – bringing together emerging artist which never met before to create new projects.
The Blind Date becomes a space of diversity, where newcomers meet in a Kahve Hane and online at Voice of architect urban migrant and cultural worker.
