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Let's discover the banana-shaped urban jungle of North Rhine-Westphalia

going urbanana!

urbanana is the banana-shaped urban jungle that extends from the Ruhr Area and Düsseldorf to Cologne and it is so inimitable and at the same time multifaceted that you should urgently consider visiting this western region of Germany

The future is now: X Design Week

Join the XDW from 6 to 10 June in Cologne

With the never-before-festival “X Design Week”, the project urbanana (initiated by Tourismus NRW e.V. together with Düsseldorf, Cologne and the Ruhr Area) brings the international network Digital Tourism Think Tank to Cologne. Under the motto “Shape Destination Experiences”, the English-language event will focus on the importance of start-ups, gaming and XR technologies for the tourism industry.

urbanana-Award 2022

For the fourth time, the urbanana-Award honors six out of numerous ideas and projects that are shaping city tourism in North Rhine-Westphalia with forward-looking new ideas. The applications submitted show how cross-sector collaboration between tourism and the creative and digital industries can work successfully. These are the six winners of the urbanana Award 2022 who, according to the jury’s vote, are the most outstanding ones. The award ceremony took place in Dortmund with the participation of the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Economic Affairs, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart

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digital spaces

KI-Biennale in Essen: The creative approach to new technologies

I am not comfortable with artificial intelligence. Hailing from the humanities myself, defiance rises in…

Britta Rübsam17. May 2022

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Going urbanana: One Day in Recklinghausen

Welcome to Recklinghausen! The home of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, one of the oldest, biggest and…

urbanana18. April 2022

creative makers

Good for Feet – Shoemaker Karina Ranft

Since 2019, Karina Ranft has been operating her own shoemaker’s workshop in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim under the…

Alexandra Wehrmann29. March 2022

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our fetish: authenticity

Not everything is polished and perfect here and that’s not what urbanana attempts to achieve. Who wants perfection when you can have pure authenticity? Urbanana tries to be as authentic as it can be by bringing you in contact with people who love and co-design their urban space and who can tell you with conviction why you absolutely have to come back for another visit. The city is their sometimes ramshackle playground, their building site – and their pride and joy.