Read our article on ExRotaprint
Produced by Eutropian for Open Heritage
Researcher & Producer: Levente Polyak
Director & Creator: Yilmaz Vurucu
Year: 2019
Length: 08.56
Language: English
ExRotaprint: From industrial production to collective urban development
ExRotaprint was founded in 2007 by tenants of the former Rotaprint industrial complex located in Wedding, a traditional working-class district in central Berlin. ExRotaprint set up a legal configuration comprising a heritable building right and non-profit status in order to buy the complex put up for sale by the Berlin Municipality's Real Estate Fund. Established by the tenants ExRotaprint became owner of the 10,000 m2 complex and started a non-profit real estate development project setting a precedent in Berlin that inspired many experiments in cooperative ownership and a campaign to change the city's privatisation policy. ExRotaprint offers affordable rents to small businesses, artists and social projects.