After nearly two decades of appropriating the Internet’s virtual public space, people are once again taking to the real public space of streets and squares to voice their opinions. Recent political movements like the Arab Spring and Occupy have led to a revaluation of public space by citizens and institutions alike. It has become a contested commodity for different interest groups, from protesters fighting for equality to sports and music events, art shows, and commercial advertising. The questions of who owns public space and how we negotiate its use are therefore at the heart of great political and public interest and debate.
DEMO:POLIS draws on architecture, sociology, and urban studies to offer a dynamic interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary meaning of public space. Featuring exemplary projects—such as the High Line and Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York, Alexanderplatz and Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, Trafalgar Square in London, the Le Ventana de Mar park in Puerto Rico, and Madrid’s Campo de Cebada—as well as a range of recent, at times controversial, artistic and urban design interventions that reflect criticisms of the status quo, the book delves into various approaches to the design—and redesign—of public space. As its political, social, and cultural value rises, citizens increasingly demand to have a voice in the discussion on how to design and use public space. Innovative tools and approaches facilitate these participatory processes, constituting a new dimension of democratic stake holding—urban design for, with, and by the public.
DEMO:POLIS draws on architecture, sociology, and urban studies to offer a dynamic interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary meaning of public space. Featuring exemplary projects—such as the High Line and Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York, Alexanderplatz and Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, Trafalgar Square in London, the Le Ventana de Mar park in Puerto Rico, and Madrid’s Campo de Cebada—as well as a range of recent, at times controversial, artistic and urban design interventions that reflect criticisms of the status quo, the book delves into various approaches to the design—and redesign—of public space. As its political, social, and cultural value rises, citizens increasingly demand to have a voice in the discussion on how to design and use public space. Innovative tools and approaches facilitate these participatory processes, constituting a new dimension of democratic stake holding—urban design for, with, and by the public.
Table of Contents
JEANINE MEERAPFEL
Foreword
BARBARA HOION
DEMO:POLIS- The Right
to Public Space
Essays
ANDREW KEEN
On Virtual and Real Public Space
CORDELIA POLINNA
The Constitution of Public Space
RICKY BURDETT
The Politics of Public Space London
and New York Compared
SUSAN CHIN
Urban Design through Public Space
MICHAEL VAN VALKENBORGH
Making New Parks in
North America- New Needs, New
Challenges, New Opportunities
FLORIAN MATZNER
Strolling through Public Space Remarks
on the City and the Public
Realm in the Early Twenty-First Century
FLORIAN MATZNER
Strolling through Public Space—Remarks
on the City and the Public
Realm In the Early Twenty-First Century
RENATA STIH
Art in Public Space as
a Metaphor for the City
JÖRN WALTER
The Glasnost of Public Participation
REGULA LÜSCHER
Participation as a Strategy for
Public Consultation—The Instant City
FRAUKE BURGOORFF
Knitting the Processes—The
Art of Cooperation In
Complex Planning Processes
BERNHARD SCHNEIDER
Public Space—A Question of Structures
BLANCA ZÚÑGA ALEGRĺA
Poetics of Space
CLAUS CARBON
Public Space in Our Minds
RUTH DALTON, CHRISTOPH HÖLSCHER,
STEFAN MÜLLER ARISONA
Enabling DEMO:POLIS
ALEXANDERPLATZ FROM
1900, 19SO, 2000 TO 2050
BERLIN, GERMANY
Alexanderplatz
KLEIHUES + KLEIHUES
High-Rise Alexanderplatz
BARKOW LEISINGER
High-Rise Alexanderplatz
ACKERSTRASSE FROM
1900, 1950, 2000 TO 2050
BERLIN, GERMANY
Ackerstraße
TRANSFORMING CITIES
MICHAEL RUETZ
Timescape
MICHAEL NAJJAR
Metropolls
NUNC CERA
Futureland
FIGHTS FOR RIGHTS
5101 BOUZID, TUNISIA
Tunisian Revolution, 2010
NEW YORK CITY, USA
Occupy Wall Street, 2011
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Gezi Park I
Takslm Square Protest, 2013
VARIOUS CITIES
Demonstrations against
Internet Surveillance, 2013
FERGUSON, USA
Protests Following the
Death of Michael Brown, 2014
PARIS, FRANCE
Je suis Charlie,
Republican Marches, 2015
ART ACTIONS
BIRGIT AND WILHELM HEIN
American Graffiti
STIH & SCHNOCK
Places of Remembrance
ELFI MIKESCH
Graffiti Over Under
WERMKE/LEINKAUF
White American Flags
REINHILO HOFFMANN,
MICHAEL MUSCHNER
Viele Männer sind
in einem Mann
HANS HAACKE
Gift Horse
MANOS TSANGARIS
Decentralized Music/
Mapping the City
SCENOGRAPHY VS. SUBSTANTIVE DESIGNS
LJUBLJANA, SlLOVENIA
River Landscape
along the Ljubljanica
ATHENS, GREECE
Path to the Acropolis
GUIMÃRES, PORTUGAL
City Center
GUIMARAES, PORTUGAL
Largo do Toural and
Alameda de São Dámaso
BOROEAUX,FRANCE
Place Leon Aucoc
LONDON, ENGLAND
Trafalgar Square Redevelopment
WISMAR, GERMANY
Parking Concept for
the Historic Center
GALICIA, SPAIN
Regulation Plan for
the Coast of Galicia
NEW YORK CITY, USA
Brooklyn Bridge Park
NEOLIBERALIZATION VS. DEMOCRATIZATION
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
La Ventana al Mar
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
Sports Park Stozice
MADRID, SPAIN
El Campo de Cebada
TALCA, CHILE
Taller de Obras
VARIOUS CITIES
Universal Declaration of Urban
Rights/Urban Parliaments
DUBLIN, IRELAND
Granby Park
BERLIN, GERMANY
100% Tempelhofer Feld
BERLIN, GERMANY
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Común-Unidad
VARIOUS CITIES
Panoramas
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
JULIO CÉSAR PÉREZ HERNÁNDEZ,
REINALDO DE LA C. URIARTE MOSQUERA
Urban versus Rural in Cuba
SUSAN CHIN, SUSANNAH DRAKE
Living in New York City
CRISTIANE MUNIZ, FERNANDO VIÉGAS,
ÁLVARO PUNTONI
Public Space In São Paulo
MEDIA LAB BERLIN
Media Lab Berlin
MEDIA LAB BERLIN
The Carpark
MEDIA LAB BERLIN
Rita Schäfer Won't Give Up
MEDIA LAB BERLIN
Aufzelchnungen zur Tllgungen
FH POTSDAM
Archipelago Kulturforum Berlin
FH POTSDAM
Archipelago Propaganda!
FH POTSDAM
Archipelago Massive Void
FH POTSDAM
Archipelago Clty-Scapes
FH POTSDAM
Platz der Republik, Berlin
FH POTSDAM
res publica
WEISSENSEE KHB
Notes on Anklam
WEISSENSEE KHB
An Unabsorbed Drop Is
Resting on the Market Square
WEISSENSEE KHB
Puchacz 65
WEISSENSEE KHB
famila ANK
WEISSENSEE KHB
We Build for You
TU BERLIN
Building Structure and Public
Space—The Fischerinsel in Berlin
CHRISTIAN SCHNEEGASS
Junge Akademle
SEBASTIAN GRÄFE, LIAT ELKAYAM
The Pastorallst's Neurotic
Nature Manifesto
FELIX LÜDICK E, THERESA SCHÜTZ,
ASLI ÖZARSLAN, AMIR TEVMURI
Present People
ASLI OZARSLAN, THERESA SCHÜTZ
Post I Opticon
LIAT ELKAYAM,
MATTHIAS KRANEBITTER
Relax Now!
SEBASTIAN GRÄFE, FELIX LÜDICKE
Piedras apiladas
THOMAS LAOENBURGER
AI Halqa—Story Box
CAITLIN VAN DER MAAS,
OTAVIO SCHIPPER, AMIR TEVMURI
Morph Us
CAITLIN VAN DER MAAS, MATTHIAS
KRANEBITTER, SEBASTIAN GRÄFE
You, Stranger
SEBASTIAN GRÄFE,
MATTHIAS KRANEBITTER
Water Music Suite No.2
BIOGRAPHIES
IMAGE CREDITS
Foreword
BARBARA HOION
DEMO:POLIS- The Right
to Public Space
Essays
ANDREW KEEN
On Virtual and Real Public Space
CORDELIA POLINNA
The Constitution of Public Space
RICKY BURDETT
The Politics of Public Space London
and New York Compared
SUSAN CHIN
Urban Design through Public Space
MICHAEL VAN VALKENBORGH
Making New Parks in
North America- New Needs, New
Challenges, New Opportunities
FLORIAN MATZNER
Strolling through Public Space Remarks
on the City and the Public
Realm in the Early Twenty-First Century
FLORIAN MATZNER
Strolling through Public Space—Remarks
on the City and the Public
Realm In the Early Twenty-First Century
RENATA STIH
Art in Public Space as
a Metaphor for the City
JÖRN WALTER
The Glasnost of Public Participation
REGULA LÜSCHER
Participation as a Strategy for
Public Consultation—The Instant City
FRAUKE BURGOORFF
Knitting the Processes—The
Art of Cooperation In
Complex Planning Processes
BERNHARD SCHNEIDER
Public Space—A Question of Structures
BLANCA ZÚÑGA ALEGRĺA
Poetics of Space
CLAUS CARBON
Public Space in Our Minds
RUTH DALTON, CHRISTOPH HÖLSCHER,
STEFAN MÜLLER ARISONA
Enabling DEMO:POLIS
ALEXANDERPLATZ FROM
1900, 19SO, 2000 TO 2050
BERLIN, GERMANY
Alexanderplatz
KLEIHUES + KLEIHUES
High-Rise Alexanderplatz
BARKOW LEISINGER
High-Rise Alexanderplatz
ACKERSTRASSE FROM
1900, 1950, 2000 TO 2050
BERLIN, GERMANY
Ackerstraße
TRANSFORMING CITIES
MICHAEL RUETZ
Timescape
MICHAEL NAJJAR
Metropolls
NUNC CERA
Futureland
FIGHTS FOR RIGHTS
5101 BOUZID, TUNISIA
Tunisian Revolution, 2010
NEW YORK CITY, USA
Occupy Wall Street, 2011
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Gezi Park I
Takslm Square Protest, 2013
VARIOUS CITIES
Demonstrations against
Internet Surveillance, 2013
FERGUSON, USA
Protests Following the
Death of Michael Brown, 2014
PARIS, FRANCE
Je suis Charlie,
Republican Marches, 2015
ART ACTIONS
BIRGIT AND WILHELM HEIN
American Graffiti
STIH & SCHNOCK
Places of Remembrance
ELFI MIKESCH
Graffiti Over Under
WERMKE/LEINKAUF
White American Flags
REINHILO HOFFMANN,
MICHAEL MUSCHNER
Viele Männer sind
in einem Mann
HANS HAACKE
Gift Horse
MANOS TSANGARIS
Decentralized Music/
Mapping the City
SCENOGRAPHY VS. SUBSTANTIVE DESIGNS
LJUBLJANA, SlLOVENIA
River Landscape
along the Ljubljanica
ATHENS, GREECE
Path to the Acropolis
GUIMÃRES, PORTUGAL
City Center
GUIMARAES, PORTUGAL
Largo do Toural and
Alameda de São Dámaso
BOROEAUX,FRANCE
Place Leon Aucoc
LONDON, ENGLAND
Trafalgar Square Redevelopment
WISMAR, GERMANY
Parking Concept for
the Historic Center
GALICIA, SPAIN
Regulation Plan for
the Coast of Galicia
NEW YORK CITY, USA
Brooklyn Bridge Park
NEOLIBERALIZATION VS. DEMOCRATIZATION
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
La Ventana al Mar
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
Sports Park Stozice
MADRID, SPAIN
El Campo de Cebada
TALCA, CHILE
Taller de Obras
VARIOUS CITIES
Universal Declaration of Urban
Rights/Urban Parliaments
DUBLIN, IRELAND
Granby Park
BERLIN, GERMANY
100% Tempelhofer Feld
BERLIN, GERMANY
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Común-Unidad
VARIOUS CITIES
Panoramas
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
JULIO CÉSAR PÉREZ HERNÁNDEZ,
REINALDO DE LA C. URIARTE MOSQUERA
Urban versus Rural in Cuba
SUSAN CHIN, SUSANNAH DRAKE
Living in New York City
CRISTIANE MUNIZ, FERNANDO VIÉGAS,
ÁLVARO PUNTONI
Public Space In São Paulo
MEDIA LAB BERLIN
Media Lab Berlin
MEDIA LAB BERLIN
The Carpark
MEDIA LAB BERLIN
Rita Schäfer Won't Give Up
MEDIA LAB BERLIN
Aufzelchnungen zur Tllgungen
FH POTSDAM
Archipelago Kulturforum Berlin
FH POTSDAM
Archipelago Propaganda!
FH POTSDAM
Archipelago Massive Void
FH POTSDAM
Archipelago Clty-Scapes
FH POTSDAM
Platz der Republik, Berlin
FH POTSDAM
res publica
WEISSENSEE KHB
Notes on Anklam
WEISSENSEE KHB
An Unabsorbed Drop Is
Resting on the Market Square
WEISSENSEE KHB
Puchacz 65
WEISSENSEE KHB
famila ANK
WEISSENSEE KHB
We Build for You
TU BERLIN
Building Structure and Public
Space—The Fischerinsel in Berlin
CHRISTIAN SCHNEEGASS
Junge Akademle
SEBASTIAN GRÄFE, LIAT ELKAYAM
The Pastorallst's Neurotic
Nature Manifesto
FELIX LÜDICK E, THERESA SCHÜTZ,
ASLI ÖZARSLAN, AMIR TEVMURI
Present People
ASLI OZARSLAN, THERESA SCHÜTZ
Post I Opticon
LIAT ELKAYAM,
MATTHIAS KRANEBITTER
Relax Now!
SEBASTIAN GRÄFE, FELIX LÜDICKE
Piedras apiladas
THOMAS LAOENBURGER
AI Halqa—Story Box
CAITLIN VAN DER MAAS,
OTAVIO SCHIPPER, AMIR TEVMURI
Morph Us
CAITLIN VAN DER MAAS, MATTHIAS
KRANEBITTER, SEBASTIAN GRÄFE
You, Stranger
SEBASTIAN GRÄFE,
MATTHIAS KRANEBITTER
Water Music Suite No.2
BIOGRAPHIES
IMAGE CREDITS