LB 18 AFF SPORE INITIATIVE is the eighteen title from the LONG BOOKS collection.
The Spore project, as well as this book, is the result of collective collaboration between clients, architects, engineers, project controllers, construction managers, and craft companies. Maintaining the building and filling it with ideas remains the task of the users.

“Spore Initiative weaves together several strands from almost 30 years of philanthropic work. This place, that has been created in Berlin Neukoelln, is a cross pollination of my understanding of environmental justice and corporate accountability, of democratic practice and the preservation of biodiversity, of art and creativity, and of education understood as deeper learning.” (…) HANS SCHOEPFLIN

"This spore – we can think of this as a germ cell, the starting point for potential life, released from the underside of a fern frond, drifting through the air before settling anew – has landed on Hermannstrasse. The neighbourhood’s perimeter block structure, originally the product of Wilhelminian-style, grand-scale urban expansion, has over the years eroded and evolved into the present-day “Berliner Kiez”. Within this discontinuous context of bars, cemeteries and open-all-hours convenience stores, the new Spore Initiative building asserts a self-assured, if somewhat quirky presence." JOSEPHA LANDES