The morethanshelters, based in Gaußstr. 19b 22765 Hamburg Deutschland, is a miscellaneous space. It can inspire other space creators who want to boost co-creation of ideas or biz models, prototyping of products or services.
http://morethanshelters.org/♥ Thanks to Jan Bathel (https://www.facebook.com/jan.bathel) for adding this space
As its initiative, morethanshelters has set the goal to enable and encourage individual, community and social development. Our aims are to find solutions for social problems as part of a sustainable working structure. At the same time our ideas and profits will be invested in an economically sustainable way. Therefore Added Value has a social and economic basis. Both will be jointly promoted through innovative structures and working methods creating a win-win situation. These financial resources will be integrated into a circulating system, and re-invested. Our social business allows the use of economic power to help to solve one of the great challenges of our time. We function as a social business pertaining to the idea that the economy must serve all people and not just increase the wealth of a few. We connect this idea with social innovation because as a professional team of designers and creative people the same questions keep on arising: How does innovation come into the world? How can it be harnessed to work and provide assistance? We follow the approach that real social innovation changes the system in which specific problems have emerged. It transforms the long term perception, behavior and the structures of the system itself. So the solution is not to house people in emergency situations with makeshift shelters, but provide them with buildings that serve as tools for a better future.