Katja is co-founder of C*SPACE Berlin, an interdisciplinary creative hub for social innovation, located in a former furniture factory in the east part of town. A social entrepreneur and trained facilitator with a background in China Studies, she has lived across Asia for more than 15 years, including in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and India. Her work spans transcultural cooperation, program curation, network weaving, and city-making, inc roles as City Representative of Hamburg in Shanghai and Editor in Chief of the Europe-China Cultural Compass. At BAUTOPIA, she will share insights from her recent trip to Taipei as part of the International Peer Creators Programme, exploring translocal spaces between Europe and the Sinophone world.