The Weißer Rabe is a nonprofit organization that consists of various employment sites and opportunities for people with disabilities (sheltered workshops), including a textile manufacturing factory, a carpenter’s workshop, staff cafeterias, a forest preserve project, a café and many more. Its goal is to enable people with mental or physical impairments or those suffering from difficult life situations to reenter the workforce.
Sabine Rohs, an expert in store construction and design, her team and collaborative partners took just eight weeks to completely redesign the retail spaces in Landsbergerstraße. Their challenge was to create a contemporary ambience, while emphasizing ecological and sustainable aspects.
"It was important to me for the store design to appeal to a new target audience, namely conscious and socially-responsible buyers, who focus on sustainability and prefer to purchase secondhand goods rather than buying new products all the time,” Rohs explains her mission. In doing so, Weißer Rabe is in tune with the Zeitgeist and social conscience of today where everyone is talking about limited resources and plastic pollution in oceans.