In the summer of 1979, the future residents of ufaFabrik had done enough dreaming, and on a beautiful day in June, took over the former Berlin UFA lab to enact their plan to put it peacefully, “Back in Action”. Their vision; to create an interdisciplinary, multicultural meeting place, and a vibrant people-friendly oasis for creativity, art, and social and environmental creative processes.
What started with a communal fund, and a single telephone, has developed over the past years into a world-renown model for communal living within a large city. From the beginning, the project was based on the idea that people could combine modest financial resources in order to live, work, create, and express themselves together.
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