Harnack, Maren, und Martin Kohler. 2011. „As found. Use, meaning and re-appropriation of contentious urban spaces“. In Infrastruktururbanismus, herausgegeben von Volker Kleinekort und Thomas Hauck. München.
Kategorie: Urban
Guided Walking to Urban Transformations
Kohler, Martin. 2008. „Guided Walking to Urban Transformations“. Barcelona.
Walking „safaris“ into industrial wastelands, transformed into temporary art installation sites draws attention to the potential for rebirth and revitalization of places in limbo. Urban development is characterized by a kind of cycle and phases of prominent and favoured places of living and working on the one hand and less liked urban spaces on the other hand. Those areas are usually the problematic cases of urban planning and in many cases these areas are former industrial or harbour areas. The derelict landscapes show fragmented remains of formerly important symbols and uses. These shattered codes of past meaning can be used to create new meaning, new symbols and new patterns of activity. But the waiting land is not easy to access. The landscapes are confusing and empty, the possible future seems far away and is intangible. A translation for the history, the quality and the potential of the site is needed focusing on the real place in question. A possible way of translating the history and the future by walking is shown with site-specific art installations and guided walking tours to the abandoned land for future use.
Big Urban Walks – Große Stadtwanderungen
Big Urban Walks sind tagelange Wanderungen durch die gesamte Region einer großen
urbanen Agglomeration durch einen einzelnen oder eine Gruppe von Forschern.
Die Wanderungen ergeben Karten, Feldnotzizzen, Fotografien und Sounddokumente der
durchquerten Stadträume und dokumentieren Räume und soziale Begegnungen mit der
Stadt.
Diese Wanderungen ist eine Methode der Stadterforschung, die urbane Agglomerationen
Gehen als „arme Methode“ (arm an Methoden und Begriffen) miteinander in
Beziehung setzen kann und die Vergleichsebene aus der Untersuchung gewinnt. Da es
keine „general urban theory“ gibt, die für alle Städte und Stadterfahrungen gilt,
ist Gehen eine vielversprechende Methode um urbane soziale Räume als multi-sensorisches
Erlebnis auf Basis des anthropologischen Raums zu vergleichen.
Diese PhD-Thesis verknüpft Konzepte aus Philosophie, Neuro-Psychologie, Bildender
Kunst und Urban Studies zu einem Methode, die kritisch gegen aktzepierter geograpfische
Methoden der Internationalen Stadtforschung evaluiert wird.
Tagging Places
Kohler, Martin. 2006. „Tagging places: Transformation process – autonome use – site-specific art“. S. 71–75 in HAFENSAFARI4. Hamburg.
In the past few years, artistic projects in the abandoned and unused areas of Hamburg’s harbor – which is slowly being filled with new, urban uses – have positioned themselves as a way to make art part of daily life for Hamburg’s citizens.
In this context, off-scene projects have a tendency to end up in a no-man’sland between the media and economy with their interests in instrumentalisation on one hand, and their own artistic and political autonomy on the other. Some of these projects develop similar reactions on a strategic level, which have interesting relationships to today’s urban development projects…
Projekt: http://www.hafensafari.de