Artikel von Hanna Lutz, der sich auf unser Buch "Urban Hacking" bezieht...
The end of public space is proclaimed often.
Urban researchers complain about increasing and
omnipresent surveillance methods in as well as
extensive privatization of public areas. The
discussion about the decline in public space also
focuses on the ubiquity of advertising messages
in urban space and the so called architecture of
control that subtly instructs urban residents
behavior. Entering the aforementioned key words
on google it brings up hundreds of books, papers,
essays, articles, lectures, panel discussions
etc. about the incorrect, contorted or ruined
form of public space. Walking around several
European or North American cities with a vigilant
eye though, you can find a lot of interventions
that face these tendencies creatively with direct
actions: billboards turned to plant-holders,
self-made zebra crossings and bike lanes, parking
lots converted into picnic areas,
In this and
future posts I want to give an overview about
these direct actions, so called Urban Hacks, as
a reaction to the loss of public space and show
their value in terms of protecting its ideal forms.
[...]
A couple of months ago,
<http://blog.inpolis.com/author/valentinschipfer/>Valentin
gave a very nice introduction to
<http://blog.inpolis.com/2012/02/17/pop-up-urbanism-a-new-term/>Pop-Up-Urbanism
and showed several examples of how residents
install temporary add-ons in the city in order to
reactivate distressed or vacant space and also to
fulfill their needs within their urban
environment. Urban Hacking goes a bit further
than that and is a direct reaction to
developments in the city Urban Hackers see as
threatening public space. Following the book
<http://www.amazon.de/Urban-Hacking-Cultural-Strategies-Modernity/dp/3837615367>"Urban
Hacking. Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky
Spaces of Modernity", I choose the term Urban
Hacking for those kind of (re)actions, but expand its definition.
<http://blog.inpolis.com/2012/07/19/urban-hacking-as-a-quality-management-tool-to-guarantee-high-value-public-space-1-the-end-of-public-space/>Link
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