Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #2

Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 7 pm
PlanBude: What and for Whom?
Margit Czenki and Christoph Schäfer (PlanBude / Park Fiction Komitee)

Since the demolition of the ESSO buildings in early 2014, the residents have been integrated into the planning of the new construction. Their contribution has been implemented by the PlanBude (Planning kiosk), in which artists, planners, and social workers from St. Pauli participate.

From September 2014 residents and other interested parties can develop and elaborate ideas. Questionnaires are sent to all 18.000 households, tenants and business owners will be interviewed, and complex issues will be worked out in public meetings. The project is accompanied by workshops in urban planning with children and teenagers of St. Pauli school. Through the open process modules and criteria for the posting of an architecture competition are developed. Though the area is owned by a private investor, the chances for the realization of the ideas from the neighbourhood are relatively high , because many decisions will be made together with politicians.

The PlanBude team includes Margit Czenki and Chistoph Schäfer, two active participants inGezi Park Fiction, which continues to be discussed internationally as a model for a project on the intersection between art in public spaces and civic action. Before the first phase begins once the evaluation of proposals has been completed, Czenki and Schäfer will present the project in theStadtgespräch series and discuss forms of participations as well as politics of the commons today.

Filmmaker and artist Margit Czenki lives in St. Pauli and teaches Cultural Planning at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. Projects (selection): Playgrounds, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2014);  Containeruni. Temporärere Campus,  Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen (2012); Park Fiction. Living as Form, Creative Time Summit, New York (2011);Abwertungskit, Kasseler Dokfest ( 2009); Videotaxi, Wilhelmsburger Freitag, Hamburg (2007); Unlikely Encounters in Urban Space, Hamburg (2003); Park Fiction. Die Wünsche werden die Wohnung verlassen und auf die Strasse gehen, Hamburg (1999).

Christoph Schäfer lives in Hamburg and is decisively involved in Gezi Park Fiction, which was also part of Documenta 11 in Kassel (2002). Recent projects and exhibitions (selection): Bostanorama. A Marmaray Tunnel Excavation of the Collective Productions of Space Through Istanbul’s Stadiums, Parks, and Gardens (Present & Recently Destroyed), Istanbul Biennial (2013); Topography of the Commons, Bad Bentheim (2013); Auslaufendes Rot. Anti-Monument für die Rote Ruhr Armee, European Cultural Capital RUHR (2010). Spector Books published The City is our Factory in 2010.