As usual the Germans are way ahead when it comes to ecological projects and temporary use of urban voids and abandoned buildings. This website bundles a number of these projects, research and contacts in Berlin, as well as a few international examples in – what a coincidence – São Paulo: They mention the Coopamare recycling program; reuse of factories by the cultural intstitutions SESC Pompéia and SESC Belenzinho; and Teatro da Vertigem, a theatre group that performed a play in 2006 on boats and riverbanks of the polluted Tietê river.
Various urban researchers and artistic projects are associated to the site, such as Urban Dialogues and Berliner Unterwelten.
Short documentary about Kuhlhaus Gleisdreieck