Strategic consulting for cities and urban spaces
We are the strategic partner for place branding and urban development. based in Hamburg, Germany. With strategic vision, practical expertise, and fresh ideas, we generate momentum and get your city moving.
Our goal: empowering people, shaping the future.
We break down structures, change thinking patterns and develop solutions – interdisciplinary, visionary and passionate. Always in focus: the future of your city, the success of your project.
Our conviction:
Future means opportunities
The future is not fixed, but can be shaped by the decisions we make today. The future is the canvas on which we project visions and hopes, it is the symbol for change – and for the unknown.
For us at Stadtmanufaktur, this means that the future holds the potential to break old patterns and forge new paths. The future is our chance to explore new possibilities and actively shape tomorrow.
We at Stadtmanufaktur are seizing these opportunities – for people and organizations, for cities and regions.
This is what we offer:
Strong opinions:
What our customers say
With a great deal of expertise, the team at Stadtmanufaktur helped us to shape our strategic realignment in a very collegial manner and to drive its implementation forward with a great deal of empathy and commitment.
Our collaboration with the team at Stadtmanufaktur was characterized by a high level of professionalism, expertise and a great deal of commitment. On the way to a strong city brand in Menden, the team provided us with collegial support and gave us excellent advice based on their extensive specialist knowledge and experience.
The wealth of experience of Thorsten Kausch and his colleagues is a key to successful collaboration. In addition, as a member of the CEO Circle, I always keep abreast of developments in city, urban and event marketing. Karlsruhe wants to play in the Bundesliga with its city – that requires coaching and networks at exactly this level.
Our success stories:
Strategies with a future
Gütersloh Marketing GmbH was looking for a new direction, new content and fresh management. We at Stadtmanufaktur coordinated the place marketing summit and strategy development - with visible success.
Development of a strength-based city brand: In cooperation with Brandmeyer Markenberatung, we are moderating the city brand process for the city of Siegen.
The city of Koblenz is very successful in terms of tourism. This leads to a high utilization of public spaces. An event strategy including a catalog of event criteria now serves as a management tool to influence the quality, number and content of events.
Experience our
business network
We love cities, we love dialog, we love debate. We love talking about the future – about how we work together. Our network lives exactly that:
We are in contact with more than 250 contacts from positions of responsibility and various industries: in close partnerships, political constellations or content-related connections.
In our three exclusive Stadtmanufaktur circles we bring together managing directors on the topics of place marketing and location promotion. For intensive dialog on challenges and solutions. And we work with our cooperation partners on the city and spatial concepts of tomorrow.
Our business network is: