Activism & planning - contradiction or opportunity?
16th open network meeting of the Innovationslabor
Event
Multiple crises, such as the climate and biodiversity crisis, as well as increasing social inequalities and urbanization trends, are challenging cities and municipalities to fundamentally question their existing planning instruments and processes. There is often a lack of suitable levers for putting development goals and strategies into practice in a timely manner. Activist approaches offer the opportunity to set long-term transformations in motion through quick, cost-effective and temporary interventions. Activism often appears to be the antithesis of formal planning, although originally activist approaches such as tactical urbanism are now increasingly being used by cities and municipalities to increase the acceptance of long-term changes and involve citizens. This creates a tension between the opportunity to accelerate the transformation towards climate-resilient cities and municipalities and the risk of institutionalization and the associated restriction of the scope of activist interventions.
The central questions therefore arise: To what extent can activism enrich (formal) urban planning, and where does it lead to tensions or even contradictions? To what extent can tactical urbanism be meaningfully integrated into existing planning processes? What synergies can arise when activist movements and city administrations cooperate? And how can the city administration support activism in a targeted way and enable scope for action?
Impulse from the student projects „Hard am Limit“, „TIKTAK Galilei“
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Guest contributions
Alenka Korenjak – Prostorož
Beatrice Bucher – Agency Apéro
event language: german
The open network meeting follows on from the courses “Hard am Limit” and “TIKTAK Galilei” (ifoer & Landscape, TU Vienna; Raumpioniere), in which tactical urbanism was used as a design and planning tool in the service of climate change adaptation. As part of this, Master's students of architecture and spatial planning developed 1:1 projects and implemented them in Hard am Bodensee and Vienna. A short presentation of the two projects will be followed by two guest contributions and a joint discussion. The event will be moderated by Lena Hohenkamp (ifoer) and Katrin Hagen (Landscape) and organized together with the future.lab innovation workshop.