- TU Wien
Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning
Institute of Spatial Planning
Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space
E280-09
Austria
Karlsgasse 11, Roof Top
A-1040 Vienna
Austria - +43-1-58801-285020 or +43-1-58801-280090
Sabine Knierbein
Tu Wien, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Faculty Member
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Tu Wien, Faculty for Architecture and Planning, Spatial Planning, Faculty Member add
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Architecture, Urban Epistemology, Urban Planning, Public Space, Urban Culture, Critical Urban Studies, and 17 moreLandscape Architecture, Relational Spaces, Urban Studies, Urban Politics, Social Movements, Politics of Space, Architecture and Public Spaces, Urban Design (Urban Studies), Planning Theory, Critical Urban Planning Theory, Affect (Cultural Theory), Sociology of Everyday Life, Everyday life theory, Critiques of everyday life, Lived Space, Urban Resistance, and Emancipation edit
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Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Sabine Knierbein is Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space an... moreProf. Dr. phil. habil. Sabine Knierbein is Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space and Associate Professor for Urban Culture and Public Space, Dr. phil. European Urban Studies, Graduate Engineer in Open Space Planning (FH) – Landscape Architecture. Sabine obtained a Venia Docendi in Urban Studies / Internationale Urbanistik at TU Wien in 2021. Sabine held a Visiting Professorship Position for Urban Political Geography at the Laboratorio di Geografia Sociale (LAGeS, www.lages.eu), Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia e Spettacolo, Università degli Studi di Firenze in Italy in 2020, and a Guest Researcher Position at the same centre in 2021 and at the Institute of Urban Design at Hafen City University Hamburg in 2022. At TU Wien, she is in charge of the scientific development, the structural establishment and management of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at) . She realizes further activities such as academic networking on the international scale. Six edited books with Routledge (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2023). Research Foci: theory of urbanization, updated critiques of everyday life and of lived space, intersectional methodological approaches to the study of urban social inequality, ethnographies diverse urban sites, philosophy of science and space. edit
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Social, economic, and political fragmentation of contemporary cities is strongly related to urban form. In order to respond to this challenge, municipal authorities, policy makers, urban designers and scholars have developed a variety of... more
Social, economic, and political fragmentation of contemporary cities is strongly related to urban form. In order to respond to this challenge, municipal authorities, policy makers, urban designers and scholars have developed a variety of approaches on understanding urban form in relation to social life, both theoretical and operational. These approaches, however, are characterized by specific disciplinary canons and have seen the emergence of separate schools of thought. They have traditionally been applied in isolation. The project on 'Emerging Perspectives on Urban Morphology' (EPUM, Erasmus+ project) has brought together five international partners embracing/developing different morphological approaches (historico‑geographical, process typological, space syntax, relational‑material and combined). Through a continuous learning process of meetings, teaching activities and workshops, EPUM aims at i) comparing and improving the ways in which urban form and the agents and processes that are responsible for its transformation over time, are taught; ii) comparing the theoretical, conceptual and methodological basis of the different approaches, identifying their main strengths and weaknesses, and exploring the possibilities for dialogue and combination. The proposed educational model aims to enable various institutions to work both independently and collaboratively, synchronously and asynchronously, eventually formulating an international 'community of practice' connected through embodied practical experience as well as through digital space and blended learning approaches. The roundtable will focus on contributions that seek to carve out connections between social life and urban form, raising following questions: How is urban morphology (re)defined with regard to relational conceptualizations of space? How is it approached and taught across different institutions and schools of thought? How can blended or face‑to‑face learning methodologies help to circumvent the shortcomings in studying urban morphologies in higher education?
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Sabine Knierbein erforscht Transformationen des Alltagslebens und leitet daraus einen alltagstheoretischen Ansatz in der Internationalen Urbanistik ab. Forschende in den Urban Studies beziehen sich wiederholt auf die Werke Henri Lefebvres... more
Sabine Knierbein erforscht Transformationen des Alltagslebens und leitet daraus einen alltagstheoretischen Ansatz in der Internationalen Urbanistik ab. Forschende in den Urban Studies beziehen sich wiederholt auf die Werke Henri Lefebvres (1974, 1967, 1970). Sein im Hintergrund in drei Bänden angelegtes Jahrhundertwerk ›La Critique de la Vie Quotidienne‹ (1947, 1961, 1981) verbleibt jedoch weitgehend unterbelichtet, obwohl vielerorts empirische Befunde auf manifeste Transformationen des Alltagslebens in den Städten verweisen und alltagstheoretische Wendungen im Feld der Internationalen Urbanistik daher dringlich wären. Lefebvres Kritik des Alltagslebens wird im Beitrag in ihrem soziohistorischen Entstehungskontext beleuchtet und um jüngere alltagstheoretische Ansätze erweitert. Wieviel Lefebvre braucht die Urbanistik in krisengerüttelten, heutigen Zeiten noch? Welche Rolle spielt der Alltag in seiner frühen Kritik an Interdisziplinarität im positivistischen Forschungskontext der Stadtforschung? Können wir mit Hilfe seines Werkes den wichtigen urbanistischen Fokus auf das Alltagsleben und den gelebten Raum konstruktiv in das frühe 21. Jahrhundert bugsieren? Denn in der zweiten Dekade des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts scheint nichts mehr, wie es war. Vor allem das Alltagsleben nicht.
In the search for connections between lived space, everyday life and ‘the political,’ this chapter revisits three key concepts of urban studies: public space, urban resistance, and urban emancipation. In public space, ‘the political’ may... more
In the search for connections between lived space, everyday life and ‘the political,’ this chapter revisits three key concepts of urban studies: public space, urban resistance, and urban emancipation. In public space, ‘the political’ may eventually become enacted through the everyday spatial practices of publics producing space. Through an exploration of practices of resistance and emancipation in public spaces facing post-political conditions, this chapter argues that publics need to be revisited as ever-changing and contingent foundations. A lack of egalitarian politics and social justice which manifests itself when our conceptual repertoire in public space research becomes fixed and static is thus part of the problem that the concept of urban emancipation describes. Much of the contemporary debate in political theory tends to refrain from spatializing emancipatory praxis while attempts at transferring post-political thought to the fields of urban studies and planning theory tend to conceptually circumvent emancipation. The chapter concludes with an emphasis on a needed dialectical study of emancipatory spatial praxis in public space and changing aspects of everyday life as the spatial dimension of emancipatory action and of egalitarian politics cannot be separated from everyday life.
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This paper conceptualizes affective urbanism as both research framework and praxis, engaging professionals and concerned publics alike in the insurgent making of cities. With its focus on affect and bodily encounters, it taps into the... more
This paper conceptualizes affective urbanism as both research framework and praxis, engaging professionals and concerned publics alike in the insurgent making of cities. With its focus on affect and bodily encounters, it taps into the rich knowledge of practices of improvising and inventing in everyday life, which tend to fall outside the realm of discursive and visual representations. An analysis of spatial practices of the collective Plataforma de Afectados Por La Hipoteca in Barcelona illustrates how a mobilization of affects fosters not only individual, but first and foremost a collective capacity to negotiate belonging, appropriate space and contest alienated conditions of everyday life. The argument rests on the hypothesis that affect implicates the ethical engagement with people at places of everyday life, thus producing a medium and means for transgressing socio-spatial divides and challenging practices of exclusion, othering and dispossession. The value of this kind of work does not necessarily lie in the quality of conceived or materialized design, but rather in enacting an inclusive and empathic design praxis which connects to people’s multiple lived spaces and cultivates lived space of deep and caring social relations.
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Neoliberal urban restructuring constitutes an underlying challenge facing cities and communities around the world. Public space, as a medium of political engagement and social interactions, may represent a vehicle for resistance against... more
Neoliberal urban restructuring constitutes an underlying challenge facing cities and communities around the world. Public space, as a medium of political engagement and social interactions, may represent a vehicle for resistance against patterns of shrinking democracy. In its capacity as a place for active democracy, public spaces-the lived spaces of contemporary societies-deserve greater care, attention, and critical reflection. As movements evolve to confront new challenges, explore new opportunities, negotiate with new actors and circumstances, and utilise new technologies and platforms, our understanding of the agency of democracy-supported through an understanding of civic dignity-must also advance. This paper aims at examining the role of public space in reclaiming and reinstating democracy. By drawing on empirical findings from cities worldwide, explored through the lens of multiple disciplines, it argues that the study of urban protest might show directions for a new, dignified politics of public space. It asks how this study may enable planners and designers to contribute to the spatial emergence of human and civic dignity.
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This chapter expands understanding emancipation beyond the confines of political philosophy and positions it as critical concept in urban studies. The first part focuses on whose emancipation is addressed by outlining distinctions between... more
This chapter expands understanding emancipation beyond the confines of political philosophy and positions it as critical concept in urban studies. The first part focuses on whose emancipation is addressed by outlining distinctions between political and social emancipation, whereas the following sections introduce relations between emancipation and the city, and emancipation and urbanization. After a critique of the colonizing features of emancipation in modern discourses, debates on emancipation will be situated in relation to debates on the post-political condition. Thereafter, emancipation is analysed per its current use in post-foundational thought, thus constructing a conceptual frame to situate the subsequent book sections and chapters.
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This chapter recapitulates contributions to “Public Space Unbound” by revisiting links between space, politics and concrete emancipatory praxis. We argue that a productive framework for discussing emancipation in urban theory needs to... more
This chapter recapitulates contributions to “Public Space Unbound” by revisiting links between space, politics and concrete emancipatory praxis. We argue that a productive framework for discussing emancipation in urban theory needs to extend beyond established conceptualizations of public space as the epitome of emancipatory struggles. Radical notions of emancipation understood as any concerted attempt at democratization under post-political conditions are translated into spatial terms, to make them more accessible to planning and design disciplines. Public space is unbound from its prevailing modernist and capitalist conceptualizations in favour of an understanding of spatial emancipatory praxis situated in lived space.
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Revisiting the relation between planning and entrepreneurship is a needed focus in planningeducation, yet not an unambiguous task to address. The 11th Conference of AESOP YoungAcademics Network followed the theme “Planning and... more
Revisiting the relation between planning and entrepreneurship is a needed focus in planningeducation, yet not an unambiguous task to address. The 11th Conference of AESOP YoungAcademics Network followed the theme “Planning and Entrepreneurship”. It was hosted bythe Chair of Urban Development at Technische Universität München in Germany. In April 2017, it brought together over 50 participants from 17 countries who presented 46 papers onthe subject matter. Sometimes explicitly, at times more implicitly, young international planningscholars sought to review benefits and potential pitfalls of introducing the study of diverseforms of entrepreneurship and related concepts to contemporary planning debates, in theoryand praxis, as well as at their interface. The conference embraced a “wide definition of entrepreneurship” (AESOP YA Online, 2016), encompassing the range from commercial entrepreneurship to civil initiatives that “are sometimes filling the void that planning leaves”(ibid.). It simultaneously promoted the notion that both businesses and publics take a scepticalstance towards technocratic planning and government interventions. This scepticism,apparently, “has brought the discipline into crisis, from which it has not yet fully recovered”(ibid.). The following questions accompanied the event: How can planning support innovativeactivities? How can planners react to technological start-ups moving into the realms ofplanning, architecture, and geo-localised data? Can (or should) planners themselves becomeentrepreneurs? (cf. AESOP Online, 2017).
(5) (PDF) Editorial: Planning and Critical Entrepreneurship. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334313957_Editorial_Planning_and_Critical_Entrepreneurship [accessed Apr 09 2022].
(5) (PDF) Editorial: Planning and Critical Entrepreneurship. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334313957_Editorial_Planning_and_Critical_Entrepreneurship [accessed Apr 09 2022].
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the issues, literature, and theoretical frameworks concerning growing privatization, neoliberalization, and austerity politics that have contributed the shrinking public sphere in the... more
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the issues, literature, and theoretical frameworks concerning growing privatization, neoliberalization, and austerity politics that have contributed the shrinking public sphere in the contemporary society and have given rise to a planetary circuit of urban resistance across different cultural, geographical and political contexts. It further examine the commonalities and specificities of the recent resistance movements, and the role of public space, which together also set the context for the thematic organization of the book and the agenda for ongoing research on public space, urban resistance, and democratic practices.
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This paper is structured into two parts. The first part is dedicated to conceptually frame “Relational Public Space and Emerging City Publics”, whereas the second part deals with “Silences and absences from public space research”: This... more
This paper is structured into two parts. The first part is dedicated to conceptually frame “Relational Public Space and Emerging City Publics”, whereas the second part deals with “Silences and absences from public space research”: This part will deal with three case studies: Vienna, Barcelona and Berlin. The Vienna case will help to exemplify theoretical and conceptual considerations, whereas the main empirical study revolves around the Barcelona case. The Berlin case will help to translate again back from empirical findings to conceptual critique. As follows, I am planning to offer some key arguments why to combine housing activism and research, with public space activism and research. In the conclusions “Resistance combined”, I will elaborate on the core hypothesis that a dialectical bridging of segmented fields in the scrutiny of urbanization processes is needed because of constant classificatory strugglesand as an act to promote inclusive urban research.
This paper is structured into two parts. The first part is dedicated to conceptually frame "Relational Public Space and Emerging City Publics", whereas the second part deals with "Silences and absences from public space... more
This paper is structured into two parts. The first part is dedicated to conceptually frame "Relational Public Space and Emerging City Publics", whereas the second part deals with "Silences and absences from public space research": This part will deal with three case studies: Vienna, Barcelona and Berlin. The Vienna case will help to exemplify theoretical and conceptual considerations, whereas the main empirical study revolves around the Barcelona case. The Berlin case will help to translate again back from empirical findings to conceptual critique. As follows, I am planning to offer some key arguments why to combine housing activism and research, with public space activism and research. In the conclusions "Resistance combined", I will elaborate on the core hypothesis that a dialectical bridging of segmented fields in the scrutiny of urbanization processes is needed because of constant classificatory struggles and as an act to promote inclusive urban res...
This paper is structured into two parts. The first part is dedicated to conceptually frame “Relational Public Space and Emerging City Publics”, whereas the second part deals with “Silences and absences from public space research”: This... more
This paper is structured into two parts. The first part is dedicated to conceptually frame “Relational Public Space and Emerging City Publics”, whereas the second part deals with “Silences and absences from public space research”: This part will deal with three case studies: Vienna, Barcelona and Berlin. The Vienna case will help to exemplify theoretical and conceptual considerations, whereas the main empirical study revolves around the Barcelona case. The Berlin case will help to translate again back from empirical findings to conceptual critique. As follows, I am planning to offer some key arguments why to combine housing activism and research, with public space activism and research. In the conclusions “Resistance combined”, I will elaborate on the core hypothesis that a dialectical bridging of segmented fields in the scrutiny of urbanization processes is needed because of constant classificatory strugglesand as an act to promote inclusive urban research.
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Sociology, Architecture, Anthropology of the Body, Social Activism, Affect Theory, and 15 moreUrban And Regional Planning, Affect/Emotion, Affect (Cultural Theory), Public Space, Activism, Refugees, Affect, Urban Design, Public spaces, Vienna, Lived Space, Architecture and Public Spaces, Routledge, Spatial Dialectics, and affective practice
„Kaum ein anderer Begriff wurde in den Architektur- und Planungsdebatten im letzten Jahrzehnt, (...) derart strapaziert, so vieldeutig und missverstandlich, oft auch polemisch und strategisch verwandt wie der Begriff der Baukultur.“1
Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (PSUC) is a thematic group established in April 2010 under the umbrella organisation of the Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP) as an initiative of Sabine Knierbein (Assistant... more
Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (PSUC) is a thematic group established in April 2010 under the umbrella organisation of the Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP) as an initiative of Sabine Knierbein (Assistant Professor, TU Vienna, Austria), Ceren Sezer (Architect and Urban planner, TU Delft, Urban 4, Netherlands) and Chiara Tornaghi (Reader, University of Leeds and Coventry University, United Kingdom). The main aim of the group is to generate an international and interdisciplinary exchange between the research and practices on public spaces and urban cultures. By doing so, it aims to support research, planning and a design agenda within and beyond the AESOP community. In this paper, we present the members, organisation, working themes, meetings and publications of the PSUC.
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Revisiting the relation between planning and entrepreneurship is a needed focus in planning education, yet not an unambiguous task to address. The 11th Conference of AESOP Young Academics Network followed the theme “Planning and... more
Revisiting the relation between planning and entrepreneurship is a needed focus in planning education, yet not an unambiguous task to address. The 11th Conference of AESOP Young Academics Network followed the theme “Planning and Entrepreneurship”. It was hosted by the Chair of Urban Development at Technische Universität München in Germany. In April 2017, it brought together over 50 participants from 17 countries who presented 46 papers on the subject matter. Sometimes explicitly, at times more implicitly, young international planning scholars sought to review benefits and potential pitfalls of introducing the study of diverse forms of entrepreneurship and related concepts to contemporary planning debates, in theory and praxis, as well as at their interface. The conference embraced a “wide definition of entrepreneurship”, encompassing the range from commercial entrepreneurship to civil initiatives that “are sometimes filling the void that planning leaves” (ibid.). It simultaneously promoted the notion that both businesses and publics take a sceptical stance towards technocratic planning and government interventions. This scepticism, apparently, “has brought the discipline into crisis, from which it has not yet fully recovered” (ibid.). The following questions accompanied the event: How can planning support innovative activities? How can planners react to technological start-ups moving into the realms of planning, architecture, and geo-localised data? Can (or should) planners themselves become entrepreneurs?.
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Entrepreneurship, Governmentality, Urban Planning, Urban Studies, Sociology of Everyday Life, and 9 moreUrban Design (Urban Studies), Public Space, Everyday Life, Critical Entrepreneurship Studies, Planning Theory, Architecture and Public Spaces, Governmentality Studies, Critical Urban Planning Theory, and foundational economy
Public space in and around train stations in Vienna have become repurposed by refugees, activists and by different institutions offering emergency humanitarian support in September 2015. Yet they have also, as in the case of Budapest’s... more
Public space in and around train stations in Vienna have become repurposed by refugees, activists and by different institutions offering emergency humanitarian support in September 2015. Yet they have also, as in the case of Budapest’s Keleti station, been controlled by the police preventing refugees from continuing their journey. As the cases show, train stations and their platforms can be appropriated and used in quite different ways: (a) as an institutionalized sphere of oppositional politics within the wider field of managerial governance’s regimes of care (through recognized NGOs such as the Caritas), as (b) relational counter space where political resistance is enacted through embodied performance and the staging of dissent (through the formation of an insurgent movement, that is, Train of Hope), and (c) as a place where state power is exerted and where public authorities organize the management of a population through biopolitics and the installment of police order, towards which the excluded subjects take a position of explicit disavowal resulting in liberating action to change their own condition. This act of liberation, the March of Hope by over a thousand refugees, has marked a key moment of transformation in politics around the world, particularly but not exclusively in Europe. This chapter sheds a light on the role of local train stations’ appropriation in quite different ways by, for and against refugees. Train stations have witnessed this moment of transformation on the local ground of everyday space, and thus deserve new attention in empirical and conceptual research at the interface of public space and refugee studies. Train stations therefore play an important role as public space in times of increasing international mobility, particularly amongst displaced populations. They offer the opportunity to stage dissent against hegemonic national(ist) politics and weak European governmental regimes under post-political conditions
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Welche Rolle spielt schlieslich, so die Fragestellung dieses letzten Kapitels, das Beispiel des Handelns gestaltwirksamer Koalitionen in Berlin im Ubergang von der fordistisch zur postfordistisch gepragten Stadtentwicklung? – Eine... more
Welche Rolle spielt schlieslich, so die Fragestellung dieses letzten Kapitels, das Beispiel des Handelns gestaltwirksamer Koalitionen in Berlin im Ubergang von der fordistisch zur postfordistisch gepragten Stadtentwicklung? – Eine Charakterisierung des Handelns gestaltwirksamer Koalitionen – so wurde veranschaulicht – eroffnet viele mogliche Interpretationsfenster der Prozesse auf der Mikroebene, die auf die Bedeutung gestaltwirksamer Koalitionen bei der Produktion zentraler offentlicher Raume verweisen: Uber das Benennen von neuen Impulsen und Instrumenten der heterarchisch organisierten raumlichen Steuerung von Stadtentwicklung hinaus wurden zahlreiche Blickwinkel auf multidimensionale Raumlogiken, nuanciertes standortpolitisches Verhalten, die Bedeutung von gestalterischen, technischen und kommunikationsstrategischen Innovationen sowie schlieslich auch auf die horizontale Dynamik innerhalb der Koalitionen eroffnet. Fruh wurde dargelegt, warum eine genauere Bestimmung der Merkmale des institutionellen Arrangements bei vorrangig induktivem Forschungsprozedere erst nach Darstellung des empirischen Materials stattfinden kann (Kap. 1). Schlieslich ist die Autorin nicht angetreten, Theorie zu testen, sondern Erkenntnisse aus der empirischen Stadtforschung – speziell an der Schnittstelle zwischen Public Space-Forschung und Urban Governance-Forschung in Kombination mit dem Ansatz der Stadtproduktion – zu Hilfe zu nehmen, um gegenwartige Stadtentwicklungstenzenden hinsichtlich offentlicher Raume theoretische genauer fassen und Anknupfungspunkte fur weitere Forschungen aufzuzeigen.
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Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (PSUC) is a thematic group established in April 2010 under the umbrella organisation of the Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP) as an initiative of Sabine Knierbein (Assistant... more
Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (PSUC) is a thematic
group established in April 2010 under the
umbrella organisation of the Association of the
European Schools of Planning (AESOP) as an initiative
of Sabine Knierbein (Assistant Professor,
TU Vienna, Austria), Ceren Sezer (Architect and
Urban planner, TU Delft, Urban 4, Netherlands)
and Chiara Tornaghi (Reader, University of Leeds
and Coventry University, United Kingdom). The
main aim of the group is to generate an international
and interdisciplinary exchange between the
research and practices on public spaces and urban
cultures. By doing so, it aims to support research,
planning and a design agenda within and
beyond the AESOP community.
In this paper, we present the members, organisation,
working themes, meetings and publications
of the PSUC.
group established in April 2010 under the
umbrella organisation of the Association of the
European Schools of Planning (AESOP) as an initiative
of Sabine Knierbein (Assistant Professor,
TU Vienna, Austria), Ceren Sezer (Architect and
Urban planner, TU Delft, Urban 4, Netherlands)
and Chiara Tornaghi (Reader, University of Leeds
and Coventry University, United Kingdom). The
main aim of the group is to generate an international
and interdisciplinary exchange between the
research and practices on public spaces and urban
cultures. By doing so, it aims to support research,
planning and a design agenda within and
beyond the AESOP community.
In this paper, we present the members, organisation,
working themes, meetings and publications
of the PSUC.
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This is an English translation of an article I published in German as KNIERBEIN, S (2011): Urban culture. A post-disciplinary positioning in urban research (Original in German: Stadtkultur. Eine postdisziplinäre Positionierung in der... more
This is an English translation of an article I published in German as KNIERBEIN, S (2011): Urban culture. A post-disciplinary positioning in urban research (Original in German: Stadtkultur. Eine postdisziplinäre Positionierung in der Stadtforschung). IN: KOCH, F und FREY, O (Eds.) Positionen der Urbanistik I. Stadtkultur und Methoden der Stadtforschung. Wien. LIT Verlag. p. 79-103.
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Publicado en la Revista Gestion y Ambiente 17, 2014/1 (creative commons license) http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/gestion/issue/view/4060 (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá) Both Spanish and English versions... more
Publicado en la Revista Gestion y Ambiente 17, 2014/1
(creative commons license) http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/gestion/issue/view/4060 (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá)
Both Spanish and English versions available below!
Abordaremos los lugares de la vida urbana a través del concepto del espacio pú-blico relacional, reconsiderando los espacios públicos como algo que va mas allá de solo ser un tema. Más bien son un campo de generación de conocimiento abstracto desde la vida cotidiana. Ampliamos nuestra perspectiva científica desde las perspectivas individuales hacia la coinvestigación como un proceso de apren-dizaje entre culturas y disciplinas. La transferencia de ésta a otro nivel significa dejar la estática de los argumentos disciplinarios monolíticos, en dirección a la investigación dialéctica de las relaciones entre (dos o más) puntos de vista, de este modo conectando de vuelta el trabajo teórico y los espacios públicos inter-pretados generados por el mismo proyecto. Reflexionaremos sobre el potencial de los espacios públicos relacionales para estimular procesos de aprendizaje en la academia misma a través de la Investigación-Acción participativa. Después de haber establecido un vínculo dirigido a la coinvestigación entre Europa y Latino-américa, nos interesan las posibilidades epistemológicas que los espacios públicos podrían tener, para las experiencias de aprendizaje científico entre disciplinas y culturas, simulando los espacios sociales y prácticas espaciales heterogéneas en los espacios vividos de las universidades. Es nuestro objetivo proponer un acer-camiento basado en acción y reflexión, para cambiar la producción mental de los espacios públicos de manera activa.
(creative commons license) http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/gestion/issue/view/4060 (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá)
Both Spanish and English versions available below!
Abordaremos los lugares de la vida urbana a través del concepto del espacio pú-blico relacional, reconsiderando los espacios públicos como algo que va mas allá de solo ser un tema. Más bien son un campo de generación de conocimiento abstracto desde la vida cotidiana. Ampliamos nuestra perspectiva científica desde las perspectivas individuales hacia la coinvestigación como un proceso de apren-dizaje entre culturas y disciplinas. La transferencia de ésta a otro nivel significa dejar la estática de los argumentos disciplinarios monolíticos, en dirección a la investigación dialéctica de las relaciones entre (dos o más) puntos de vista, de este modo conectando de vuelta el trabajo teórico y los espacios públicos inter-pretados generados por el mismo proyecto. Reflexionaremos sobre el potencial de los espacios públicos relacionales para estimular procesos de aprendizaje en la academia misma a través de la Investigación-Acción participativa. Después de haber establecido un vínculo dirigido a la coinvestigación entre Europa y Latino-américa, nos interesan las posibilidades epistemológicas que los espacios públicos podrían tener, para las experiencias de aprendizaje científico entre disciplinas y culturas, simulando los espacios sociales y prácticas espaciales heterogéneas en los espacios vividos de las universidades. Es nuestro objetivo proponer un acer-camiento basado en acción y reflexión, para cambiar la producción mental de los espacios públicos de manera activa.
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Las ciudades europeas estan cambiando rapidamente en respuesta parcial a los procesos de integracion europea, la migracion internacional, la globalizacion economica y el cambio climatico. Los espacios publicos de estas ciudades, como... more
Las ciudades europeas estan cambiando rapidamente en respuesta parcial a los procesos de integracion europea, la migracion internacional, la globalizacion economica y el cambio climatico. Los espacios publicos de estas ciudades, como ingredientes esenciales de la imagen urbana y la experiencia, juegan un papel cada vez mas importante en esta transicion. Una cuestion clave se refiere al papel que los espacios publicos deben desempenar en la transformacion politica, economica y cultural de las ciudades, y el impacto de estas transformaciones en la naturaleza del espacio publico como un recurso compartido. ?Como hacen las autoridades publicas para abordar al espacio publico como un catalizador para el cambio y como un bien comun? Vamos a esbozar los desafios que enfrentan las ciudades europeas y la importancia del espacio publico para hacer frente a estos desafios. Sobre la base de estudios de casos de todo Europa (Amberes, Belfast, Berlin, Budapest, Dresde, Estambul, Londres, Milan, N...
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Publicado en la Revista Gestion y Ambiente 17, 2014/1 (creative commons license) http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/gestion/issue/view/4060 (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá) Please find attached both Spanish and... more
Publicado en la Revista Gestion y Ambiente 17, 2014/1
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Las ciudades europeas están cambiando rápidamente en respuesta parcial a los procesos de integración europea, la migración internacional, la globalización eco-nómica y el cambio climático. Los espacios públicos de estas ciudades, como in-gredientes esenciales de la imagen urbana y la experiencia, juegan un papel cada vez más importante en esta transición. Una cuestión clave se refiere al papel que los espacios públicos deben desempeñar en la transformación política, económica y cultural de las ciudades, y el impacto de estas transformaciones en la naturaleza del espacio público como un recurso compartido. ¿Cómo hacen las autoridades públicas para abordar al espacio público como un catalizador para el cambio y como un bien común? Vamos a esbozar los desafíos que enfrentan las ciudades eu-ropeas y la importancia del espacio público para hacer frente a estos desafíos. Sobre la base de estudios de casos de todo Europa (Amberes, Belfast, Berlín, Budapest, Dresde, Estambul, Londres, Milán, Nápoles, París, Viena, Varsovia, y seis ciudades de Suiza), diversos autores han analizado las formas en que los espacios públicos han sido abordados por los poderes públicos en su interacción con las sociedades urbanas. Exploramos la política del espacio público en tres partes: las estrategias, planes y políticas; múltiples funciones del espacio público, y la vida cotidiana en la ciudad. Vamos a describir los principales desafíos y examinar las respuestas de estas ciudades europeas, en busca de tendencias y patrones identificables.
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Las ciudades europeas están cambiando rápidamente en respuesta parcial a los procesos de integración europea, la migración internacional, la globalización eco-nómica y el cambio climático. Los espacios públicos de estas ciudades, como in-gredientes esenciales de la imagen urbana y la experiencia, juegan un papel cada vez más importante en esta transición. Una cuestión clave se refiere al papel que los espacios públicos deben desempeñar en la transformación política, económica y cultural de las ciudades, y el impacto de estas transformaciones en la naturaleza del espacio público como un recurso compartido. ¿Cómo hacen las autoridades públicas para abordar al espacio público como un catalizador para el cambio y como un bien común? Vamos a esbozar los desafíos que enfrentan las ciudades eu-ropeas y la importancia del espacio público para hacer frente a estos desafíos. Sobre la base de estudios de casos de todo Europa (Amberes, Belfast, Berlín, Budapest, Dresde, Estambul, Londres, Milán, Nápoles, París, Viena, Varsovia, y seis ciudades de Suiza), diversos autores han analizado las formas en que los espacios públicos han sido abordados por los poderes públicos en su interacción con las sociedades urbanas. Exploramos la política del espacio público en tres partes: las estrategias, planes y políticas; múltiples funciones del espacio público, y la vida cotidiana en la ciudad. Vamos a describir los principales desafíos y examinar las respuestas de estas ciudades europeas, en busca de tendencias y patrones identificables.
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This book discusses relational perspectives on public space in order to present a way forward in dealing with new challenges in architecture and planning education. Developing a pedagogical approach based on urban life and difference in... more
This book discusses relational perspectives on public space in order to present a way forward in dealing with new challenges in architecture and planning education. Developing a pedagogical approach based on urban life and difference in public space is a crucial and a much needed challenge in an increasingly complex and accelerated urbanised world. Considering the ramifications of spatial practice and strategic interventions on urban everyday life, this is a key task for the education of urban professionals. Alternative (relational) ways of envisioning space are particularly needed in architecture and planning schools in order to reflect critically on the crucial role of academics and to amend historical patterns in the production of space. (...)
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In the last 60 years architects, geographers, planners, sociologists and urban designers interested in public space have been very busy compiling detailed overviews of the ways these places change. From accounts on the transformation of... more
In the last 60 years architects, geographers, planners, sociologists and urban designers interested in public space have been very busy compiling detailed overviews of the ways these places change. From accounts on the transformation of publicness and public life (Arendt, 1958; Sennett, 1990), public opinion and the public sphere (Habermas, 1989), to observations on dystopic landscapes and the privatisation of public space (Whyte, 1980; Sorkin, 1992; Christopherson, 1994; Low & Smith, 2006; Minton, 2012). This major body of literature exists alongside less mainstream (although very relevant) accounts on insurgent, interstitial, yet persistent forms of appropriation or re-creation of collective spaces (Watson, 2006; Franck & Stevens, 2007; Hou, 2010). While we acknowledge the importance of these analyses, the complexity and richness of which cannot be addressed here in full, we contend that new (relational) approaches in urban studies have allowed the emergence of new ways of seeing change and paths for acting change, which can be important tools for overcoming the limits of a dualistic approach.
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Public space has been primarily considered as a theme in urban studies, but without acknowledging its inherent potential as a core field in cross-disciplinary urban studies. Inspired by the spatial epistemology of Henri Lefebvre, it is... more
Public space has been primarily considered as a theme in urban studies, but without acknowledging its inherent potential as a core field in cross-disciplinary urban studies. Inspired by the spatial epistemology of Henri Lefebvre, it is conceived here as relational counter space in order to imbue human-scale approaches in architecture and planning with an emphasis on humanist thought about space. Using dialectics to qualify the epistemology of public space as relational space, these insights are then transferred into different learning fields of urban education with a focus on public space. Are public spaces ideal vehicles to reconnect abstraction to its base, that is, spatial practice, and its inherent social relations?
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Toolkits within disciplinary boundaries are often quite static and research questions, planning problems or design tasks tend to be framed according to the possible endogenic/internal disciplinary ways that are routinely applied. This,... more
Toolkits within disciplinary boundaries are often quite static and research questions, planning problems or design tasks tend to be framed according to the possible endogenic/internal disciplinary ways that are routinely applied. This, combined with a certain disciplinary compartmentalisation has created knowledge gaps and ‘blind spots’ at the interface between different methodological streams. This disciplinary isolation creates a missed opportunity of creating more fertile inquiries into spatial relations from cross-disciplinary perspectives. This neglect caused severe ramifications both in terms of space epistemology and related professional ethics. Within these architecture and planning mainstream disciplinary paradigms, priority was given to rational and technical thinking, rather than to emotions, affect, trust and other rather “soft”categories.
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We have stressed that, despite a growing empirical and theoretical interest in public space, the development and establishment of relational perspectives is still far from being thoroughly accepted and put into practice; these... more
We have stressed that, despite a growing empirical and theoretical interest in public space, the development and establishment of relational perspectives is still far from being thoroughly accepted and put into practice; these perspectives remain largely considered as abstract conceptualisations. Nonetheless, at the same time, a number of informal planning arenas have influenced professional planning and architectural practice from ‘below’. These changes offer valuable starting points and the inspiration to connect abstract relational conceptions of space to concrete professional practices in public space, even though they may not necessarily be theoretically informed. By looking in particular at the relational and reflexive approaches taken by these exploratory professional practices, chapters in this part III of the book specifically highlights the need for transdisciplinary foci in urban research. The challenges that changing dynamics of public space production evoke in the field of urban studies go beyond considering public space just as a cross-disciplinary theme in architecture and planning. Rather the point is to understand public space research as a way to learn from the constraints and opportunities emerging from the field of practice, and also as a device to reconnect planning and design endeavours to lived space, and the social practices that constantly re-shape and re-signify it.
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Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban... more
Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, and practices.
This book provides a pathway for urban scholars to start engaging with approaches to conceptualize care in the city through a critical-reflexive analysis of processes of urbanization. It pursues a systematic integration of empirical, methodological, theoretical, and ethical approaches to care in urban studies, while overcoming a crisis-centered reading of care and the related ambivalences in care debates, practices, and spaces. These strands are elaborated via a conceptual framework of care and situated within broader theoretical debates on cities, urbanization, and urban development with detailed case studies from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
By establishing links to various fields of knowledge, this book seeks to systematically introduce debates on care to the interconnecting fields of urban studies, planning theory, and related disciplines for the first time.
This book provides a pathway for urban scholars to start engaging with approaches to conceptualize care in the city through a critical-reflexive analysis of processes of urbanization. It pursues a systematic integration of empirical, methodological, theoretical, and ethical approaches to care in urban studies, while overcoming a crisis-centered reading of care and the related ambivalences in care debates, practices, and spaces. These strands are elaborated via a conceptual framework of care and situated within broader theoretical debates on cities, urbanization, and urban development with detailed case studies from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
By establishing links to various fields of knowledge, this book seeks to systematically introduce debates on care to the interconnecting fields of urban studies, planning theory, and related disciplines for the first time.
What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the implications of urban resistance for the remaking of public space in the "age of shrinking... more
What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the implications of urban resistance for the remaking of public space in the "age of shrinking democracy"? To what extent do these resistances move from anti- to alter-politics?
City Unsilenced brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and scholar-activists to examine the spaces, conditions, and processes in which neoliberal practices have profoundly impacted the everyday social, economic, and political life of citizens and communities around the globe. They explore the commonalities and specificities of urban resistance movements that respond to those impacts. They focus on how such movements make use of and transform the meanings and capacity of public space. They investigate their ramifications in the continued practices of renewing democracies. A broad collection of cases is presented and analyzed, including Movimento Passe Livre (Brazil), Google Bus Blockades San Francisco (USA), the Platform for Mortgage Affected People (PAH) (Spain), the Piqueteros Movement (Argentina), Umbrella Movement (Hong Kong), post-Occupy Gezi Park (Turkey), Sunflower Movement (Taiwan), Occupy Oakland (USA), Syntagma Square (Greece), Researchers for Fair Policing (New York), Urban Movement Congress (Poland), urban activism (Berlin), 1DMX (Mexico), Miyashita Park Tokyo (Japan), 15M Movement (Spain), and Train of Hope and protests against Academic Ball in Vienna (Austria).
By better understanding the processes and implications of the recent urban resistances, City Unsilenced contributes to the ongoing debates concerning the role and significance of public space in the practice of lived democracy.
City Unsilenced brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and scholar-activists to examine the spaces, conditions, and processes in which neoliberal practices have profoundly impacted the everyday social, economic, and political life of citizens and communities around the globe. They explore the commonalities and specificities of urban resistance movements that respond to those impacts. They focus on how such movements make use of and transform the meanings and capacity of public space. They investigate their ramifications in the continued practices of renewing democracies. A broad collection of cases is presented and analyzed, including Movimento Passe Livre (Brazil), Google Bus Blockades San Francisco (USA), the Platform for Mortgage Affected People (PAH) (Spain), the Piqueteros Movement (Argentina), Umbrella Movement (Hong Kong), post-Occupy Gezi Park (Turkey), Sunflower Movement (Taiwan), Occupy Oakland (USA), Syntagma Square (Greece), Researchers for Fair Policing (New York), Urban Movement Congress (Poland), urban activism (Berlin), 1DMX (Mexico), Miyashita Park Tokyo (Japan), 15M Movement (Spain), and Train of Hope and protests against Academic Ball in Vienna (Austria).
By better understanding the processes and implications of the recent urban resistances, City Unsilenced contributes to the ongoing debates concerning the role and significance of public space in the practice of lived democracy.
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Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses. That way, its ever-changing meanings, contested or challenged uses have... more
Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses. That way, its ever-changing meanings, contested or challenged uses have been largely ignored, as well as the contextual and on-going dynamics between social actors, their cultures, and struggles. The key role of space in enabling spatial opportunities for social action, the fluidity of its social meaning and the changing degree of "publicness" of a space remain unexplored fields of academic inquiry and professional practice.
Public Space and Relational Perspectives offers a different understanding of public spaces in the city. The aim of the book is to (re)introduce the lived experiences in public life into the teaching curricula of those academic disciplines which deal with public space and the built environment, such as architecture, planning and urban design, as well as the social sciences.
The book presents conceptual, practical and research challenges and brings together findings from activists, practitioners and theorists. The editors provide eight educational challenges that educators can endorse when training future practitioners and researchers to accept and to engage with the social relations that unfold in and through public space.
Public Space and Relational Perspectives offers a different understanding of public spaces in the city. The aim of the book is to (re)introduce the lived experiences in public life into the teaching curricula of those academic disciplines which deal with public space and the built environment, such as architecture, planning and urban design, as well as the social sciences.
The book presents conceptual, practical and research challenges and brings together findings from activists, practitioners and theorists. The editors provide eight educational challenges that educators can endorse when training future practitioners and researchers to accept and to engage with the social relations that unfold in and through public space.
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European cities are changing rapidly in part due to the process of de-industrialization, European integration and economic globalization. Within those cities public spaces are the meeting place of politics and culture, social and... more
European cities are changing rapidly in part due to the process of de-industrialization, European integration and economic globalization. Within those cities public spaces are the meeting place of politics and culture, social and individual territories, instrumental and expressive concerns. Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe investigates how European city authorities understand and deal with their public spaces, how this interacts with market forces, social norms and cultural expectations, whether and how this relates to the needs and experiences of their citizens, exploring new strategies and innovative practices for strengthening public spaces and urban culture.
These questions are explored by looking at 13 case studies from across Europe, written by active scholars in the area of public space and organized in three parts:
strategies, plans and policies
multiple roles of public space
and everyday life in the city.
This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in the design and development of public space. The European case studies provide interesting examples and comparisons of how cities deal with their public space and issues of space and society.
These questions are explored by looking at 13 case studies from across Europe, written by active scholars in the area of public space and organized in three parts:
strategies, plans and policies
multiple roles of public space
and everyday life in the city.
This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in the design and development of public space. The European case studies provide interesting examples and comparisons of how cities deal with their public space and issues of space and society.
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Urban Politics, European Union, European Union Politics, Public Space, Berlin, and 12 moreLondon, Dresden, Athens, Paris, Warsaw, Vienna, Istanbul, Budapest, Milan, Antwerp, Lucerne, and Public Policy
Ästhetische, ökonomische und mediale Restrukturierungen durch gestaltwirksame Koalitionen in Berlin Seit 1980 erfahren öffentliche Räume einen manifesten ästhetischen Wandel. These ist, dass sich in diesem Gestaltwandel institutionelle... more
Ästhetische, ökonomische und mediale Restrukturierungen durch gestaltwirksame Koalitionen in Berlin
Seit 1980 erfahren öffentliche Räume einen manifesten ästhetischen Wandel. These ist, dass sich in diesem Gestaltwandel institutionelle Transformationen ausdrücken, die auf veränderte Rollen des Staates und der Märkte bei der Produktion zentraler öffentlicher Räume verweisen. Anhand von ‚gestaltwirksamen Koalitionen’ zwischen Out-of-Home Medienunternehmen und staatlichen Akteuren weist Sabine Knierbein ein jüngeres Phänomen der Stadtproduktion nach: Eine postfordistische Wertschöpfungsstrategie tritt hervor, deren Urheber menschliche Aufmerksamkeiten in öffentlichen Räumen systematisch als knappes Gut bewirtschaften. Wenn aber Koalitionen zwischen Staat und Märkten aus Aufmerksamkeiten de facto Kapital schlagen können, dann steht Staatlichkeit im Zuge der aufkommenden Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie vor fundamentalen Dilemmata einer Rollenbestimmung als Gralshüter öffentlichen Interesses oder als Instanz der Kommodifizierung des Kollektiven. Denn mit der lokalen Ware Publizität wird bereits auf den Finanzmärkten global gehandelt.
Seit 1980 erfahren öffentliche Räume einen manifesten ästhetischen Wandel. These ist, dass sich in diesem Gestaltwandel institutionelle Transformationen ausdrücken, die auf veränderte Rollen des Staates und der Märkte bei der Produktion zentraler öffentlicher Räume verweisen. Anhand von ‚gestaltwirksamen Koalitionen’ zwischen Out-of-Home Medienunternehmen und staatlichen Akteuren weist Sabine Knierbein ein jüngeres Phänomen der Stadtproduktion nach: Eine postfordistische Wertschöpfungsstrategie tritt hervor, deren Urheber menschliche Aufmerksamkeiten in öffentlichen Räumen systematisch als knappes Gut bewirtschaften. Wenn aber Koalitionen zwischen Staat und Märkten aus Aufmerksamkeiten de facto Kapital schlagen können, dann steht Staatlichkeit im Zuge der aufkommenden Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie vor fundamentalen Dilemmata einer Rollenbestimmung als Gralshüter öffentlichen Interesses oder als Instanz der Kommodifizierung des Kollektiven. Denn mit der lokalen Ware Publizität wird bereits auf den Finanzmärkten global gehandelt.
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Welche Planungsansätze derzeit europaweit verfolgt werden, umriss die Urbanistin und Landschaftsarchitektin Dr. Sabine Knierbein in ihrem ambitionierten Vortrag, überschrieben "Öffentliche Räume. Stadtkulturelle Herausforderungen zwischen... more
Welche Planungsansätze derzeit europaweit verfolgt werden, umriss die Urbanistin und Landschaftsarchitektin Dr. Sabine Knierbein in ihrem ambitionierten Vortrag, überschrieben "Öffentliche Räume. Stadtkulturelle Herausforderungen zwischen Gestaltungsqualität und gesellschaftlichem Wandel". Im ersten Abschnitt erörterte sie Räume von Freiräumen über Denkräume bis hin zu den öffentlichen Räumen. Auf letzteren spiele sich öffentliches Leben ab, aber auch Alltagsleben. Knierbein bemängelte, dass an den Hochschulen diese Sozialisationsaufgabe des öffentlichen Raumes zu wenig gelehrt werde. Im Weiteren zeigte sie dazu unterschiedliche Herangehensweisen auf: Während um den neuen Wiener Hauptbahnhof herum eine selektive Freiraumpolitik gemacht wird, haben die Lyoner ihr Freiraumkonzept in den regionalen Kontext gestellt und in Kopenhagen werde das Modell der fahrradgerechten, belebten Stadt verfolgt. Unsere Bundeshauptstadt hingegen verfolge gleich drei Freiraum-Konzepte: Im jedermann/jederfrau zugänglichen Regierungsviertel werde die Republik veröffentlicht, am Potsdamer Platz zeige man den zivilgesellschaftlich realisierten Wettbewerb der Aufmerksamkeit (z.B. mit kommerziellen Toilettenhäusern der Wall AG) und hin und wieder werde der öffentliche Raum auch für den politischen Wettbewerb um die globale Aufmerksamkeit genutzt (wie bei Barrack Obamas Auftritt an der Siegessäule noch vor seiner Wahl zum Präsidenten der USA). Barcelona unterhalte seit einiger Zeit in Markthallen öffentliche Institutionen, bei der die Bevölkerung sich z.B. in Ernährungsfragen beraten lassen könne. Damit werden Gestaltungsprozesse sinnvoll mit gesellschaftspolitischen verknüpft und die lokale Kohäsion gestärkt. Städte stünden oftmals im Konflikt, mit öffentlichen Räumen zum einen den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt zu fördern, zum anderen wirtschaftliche Standortpolitik betreiben zu müssen. Nach ihrer Meinung lassen sich in diesem Spannungsfeld aber durchaus gestalterische Fragen ansiedeln. Sie empfahl eine behutsame und verlangsamte Stadtentwicklungspolitik und eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Vergangenheit und dies in einem kreativen Prozess, im Kollektiv und im gesellschaftlichen Kontext. (zitiert aus http://www.akbw.de/nc/berufspolitik/land/stuttgart-21/veranstaltungsreihe-z-21/z-21-reihe-der-4-abend.html?sword_list[0]=knierbein, Online Zugriff am 15/09/2014)
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book editors: Ali Madanipour, Sabine Knierbein and Aglaée Degros
review author: Pedro Gomez
journal:Urban Research & Practice, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2014, no 2. pp.241-254
review author: Pedro Gomez
journal:Urban Research & Practice, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2014, no 2. pp.241-254
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book editor: Ali Madanipour, Sabine Knierbein and Aglaée Degros
review editor: Erik Meinharter (in German)
journal: Derive Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung.
http://www.derive.at/index.php?p_case=2&id_cont=1284&issue_No=57
review editor: Erik Meinharter (in German)
journal: Derive Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung.
http://www.derive.at/index.php?p_case=2&id_cont=1284&issue_No=57
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book editors: Ali Madanipour, Sabine Knierbein and Aglaée Degros
review author: Joaquin Villanueva
webpage: Urban Geography Research Group Online
http://urban-geography.org.uk/
review author: Joaquin Villanueva
webpage: Urban Geography Research Group Online
http://urban-geography.org.uk/
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https://link.springer.com/journal/41289/25/2 Unsanctioned, unscripted, and seemingly “undesirable” activities have long appropriated urban spaces in routine and sometimes unexpected ways, bringing new meanings and unforeseen functions to... more
https://link.springer.com/journal/41289/25/2
Unsanctioned, unscripted, and seemingly “undesirable” activities have long appropriated urban spaces in routine and sometimes unexpected ways, bringing new meanings and unforeseen functions to those places. In the last decade or so, such practices have inspired a growing movement under the banner of DIY and tactical urbanisms. The growing acceptance of these practices creates important openings in the formalized planning systems for greater flexibility and expedient change. Yet, the institutionalization of previously informal and even subversive acts has resulted in concerns regarding co-optation and de-politicization. This special issue seeks to pivot a refocus towards these unsanctioned and unscripted urban activities as a form of counter-hegemonic spatial practices, distinct from its professionalized and institutionalized counterpart. A range of cases is examined here sharing similar characteristics as challenges against the prevailing social and political paradigm. Key findings include the scalability of guerrilla actions, the fluid shift between overt and covert actions, and the linkage between everyday struggles and organized resistance. This special issue is intended to advance our understanding of urban design by situating it in a broader social, economic, and political praxis that encompasses both formal and informal practices performed by a wide variety of individual and collective actors.
Unsanctioned, unscripted, and seemingly “undesirable” activities have long appropriated urban spaces in routine and sometimes unexpected ways, bringing new meanings and unforeseen functions to those places. In the last decade or so, such practices have inspired a growing movement under the banner of DIY and tactical urbanisms. The growing acceptance of these practices creates important openings in the formalized planning systems for greater flexibility and expedient change. Yet, the institutionalization of previously informal and even subversive acts has resulted in concerns regarding co-optation and de-politicization. This special issue seeks to pivot a refocus towards these unsanctioned and unscripted urban activities as a form of counter-hegemonic spatial practices, distinct from its professionalized and institutionalized counterpart. A range of cases is examined here sharing similar characteristics as challenges against the prevailing social and political paradigm. Key findings include the scalability of guerrilla actions, the fluid shift between overt and covert actions, and the linkage between everyday struggles and organized resistance. This special issue is intended to advance our understanding of urban design by situating it in a broader social, economic, and political praxis that encompasses both formal and informal practices performed by a wide variety of individual and collective actors.
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POWER TO CO-PRODUCE: Careful power distribution in collaborative city-making webinar will be hosted on 14th September 2020. Whether you are a student or an urban scholar, an activist or a local community leader, a decision-maker or a... more
POWER TO CO-PRODUCE: Careful power distribution in collaborative city-making webinar will be hosted on 14th September 2020. Whether you are a student or an urban scholar, an activist or a local community leader, a decision-maker or a policy designer, please register and take part in this collective attempt to widen up the debate on collaborative city-making by exploring its multiple interrelated dimensions.
This open webinar is an attempt to establish a dialogical relationship between different perspectives on the interplay of power relations and collaborative city-making processes focusing on local processes of co-production and civic engagement, particularly of the marginalised communities. By recognising (1) practices, (2) pedagogies and (3) policies, and interrelations among the involved actors and institutions, it is expected to broaden debates on participatory collaboration in city-making processes.
URL: https://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/de/veranstaltungen/symposium/power-to-co-produce-webinar
This open webinar is an attempt to establish a dialogical relationship between different perspectives on the interplay of power relations and collaborative city-making processes focusing on local processes of co-production and civic engagement, particularly of the marginalised communities. By recognising (1) practices, (2) pedagogies and (3) policies, and interrelations among the involved actors and institutions, it is expected to broaden debates on participatory collaboration in city-making processes.
URL: https://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/de/veranstaltungen/symposium/power-to-co-produce-webinar