Intermediary Spaces
Organizers: Raum für urbane Experimente
Tutors: Alex Axinte (studioBASAR), Tudor Elian
Team: Kilian Blum, Axel Brechenser, Anna Eckenweber, Kamila Kozak, Osman Petersen, Tanja Simonovic, Philipp Zint, Alex Koch, Pascal Simon, Anatol Rettberg, David Sbecker, Sofie Arnold, David Becker
Location: Friedrich Wöhler Platz, Noordstad, Kassel, Germany
Period: 8 - 12 Noiembrie 2013
In an age of increasingly planned urban habitats, a wide range of leftover spaces are still surviving, from previously planned and turned into failed spaces, to forgotten areas, bypassed, frozen, or put on hold zones. Having the quality of the possible and without planning for a clear goal, we aimed to work in these gaps of possible spaces as an intermediary phase, between turn off places to community generated settings.
During five days the workshop developed in two stages, the first days being reserved for presentations, discussions and walks around the neighborhood and the following days being for hands-on work, collecting materials from the neighborhood, production and installation. In the last day, despite the rainy wheatear and some initial pessimistic prognosis, the inhabitants joined the first ‘Herbstfest’ of Kassel Noordstad held in Friedrich Wöhler Platz. Kids and their parents built and finally un-built a New-New-Amsterdam made out of cardboards on a sandy empty field, joined the ad-hoc flea market, and marked the favorite places on panels. Involving different groups at the same time and place and raising the interaction level of the surrounding public space by leaving behind custom made add-ons benches, the workshop establishing as a base for future community actions in the area.
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