Alone, you build a place. Together, we build the infrastructure for the future.
KreativOrte connects people, places and projects that are trying out new ways of living, learning and working in practice. You keep your name, your logo, your place and your idea. What we share is bigger: people, knowledge, projects, funding, visibility, experience, infrastructure.
Free. Takes ten minutes. Your content stays yours. The form is in German, feel free to answer in English.
The problem
Ideas are not what is missing. Everything else is.
Most places shaping the future have plenty of imagination. What they lack is time, capital, knowledge, reach and access to the right people.
The bitter part: we all solve the same problems side by side.
- Everyone researches the same funding programmes.
- Everyone builds their own processes.
- Everyone develops their business model from scratch.
- Everyone looks for the same partners.
- Everyone builds their reach alone.
Not 100 identical places. 100 independent places, connected to each other.
The network
These are the people, places and projects already connected.
From the island bakery on Helgoland to the old church in Konstanz and the Hope Hub in Galicia. Each with its own story, its own name, its own path.
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Entries appear in each place’s own words, mostly in German.
The KreativOrte pact
You keep what is yours. Together we own more.
What stays with you
- your name
- your logo
- your place
- your idea
- your prices
- your programme
- your decisions
What you gain
- people
- knowledge
- projects
- capital
- partners
- other places
- visibility
- infrastructure
And in return?
Whoever benefits from the network makes sure others benefit too. Once a year you contribute something: knowledge from your build, a contact, a room for a meeting, two hours of advice for a place that is where you were three years ago. What you contribute is up to you.
Joining costs nothing.
What it asks for is reciprocity.
Infrastructure
What the network provides.
Things a single place can hardly build on its own.
Business
Requests for events, retreats, seminars and projects go into the network and are passed on to suitable places.
in progressKnowledge
Funding programmes, financing, building, community, business models, operations. Worked out once, usable by all.
availablePurchasing and resources
Many places have more bargaining power than one. Energy, insurance, software, framework contracts.
plannedReputation
“Part of the KreativOrte network” as a signal to municipalities, banks and funders.
in progressShared risk
We earn when the network makes you more successful. Not before.
under review
If you need more than knowledge, we will work with you.
Four offers with a fixed price and a clear result. The first conversation is free.
Site Check
from €2,900three levels up to €9,900, travel costs extra
Who would come in November, not just in July?
We check on site before anyone applies for money: who owns the place, who comes outside the season, what conversion and operation cost.
Demand Check
€9,500compact version €4,900, the Site Check is credited
Who will actually come?
Catchment area, target groups, realistic visitor numbers and whether the place can pay for itself.
On-site days
€6,500two days, talk at your company from €1,500
Your next team retreat, on a real question?
Two days at a place in the network, for example at the Alsenhof in Lägerdorf. Your team works on a question the place really has right now.
Finances for places
€1,000 a monthbasic package for small places €500 a month
Who does your finances?
Receipts and payments, cash flow with a thirteen-week forecast, reports to the board and the supervisory board, funding claims.
All prices excluding VAT.
How it works here
A network is not strong because many people are in it. It is strong when it gets things moving.
That is why we ask the same question at every meeting: what do you need right now that the network could help you with in the next 14 days?
Then we try to turn that into a connection.
Every last Thursday of the month
Purpose Power Hour
Thursday, 29 October 20266 pm German time · online · one hour · in German
Open and free. Each time a person, a place or a project introduces itself. Then you ask your question and the network answers.
Sign up for the next Purpose Power Hour
Or join our LinkedIn group.
How you recognise us
Not by a shared logo. By the way we act.
Cooperation before competition
When two places plan the same thing, they talk to each other before they compete.
Share knowledge instead of hoarding it
What you have learned costs the next person nothing.
Take responsibility
A promise is a promise, even when it gets uncomfortable.
Strengthen local value creation
Ask locally first, then further afield.
Share resources
Equipment, rooms, contracts and time can be shared.
Connect people
If you know two people who should know each other, you introduce them.
Make experiments possible
An attempt that fails is a result. We treat it as one.
Impact before self-promotion
What worked counts for more than what looks good.
Who is behind it
Two people, Ida and a shared idea.
What happens when people meet at inspiring places and want to change something together? We founded KreativOrte with that question.
Daniel Spizzirri is managing director of KreativOrte GmbH. He founded the Fritten Werkstatt and brings people to one table with his food truck. Heiko Kolz is an economist and a roofer, built the first coworking space in the German countryside in 2017 and travels to places where people work together. When you sign up, one of the two of us will get in touch with you.
Join
Then add your place.
- Sign upTen minutes. Name, place, a photo and a few sentences about you.
- We get in touchWithin a week, personally. No bot, no newsletter.
- You are visibleYour entry appears on kreativorte.org, you are invited to the next Purpose Power Hour and you are on the list for requests.
Free. No contract. You can leave at any time.