park fiction

Acting from a subordinate position, residents organised in the Hafenrandverein (Harbour Edge Association) prevented the development of the slope along the Elbe River in St. Pauli, which was to consume millions; they caused the local development plan to be chopped and succeeded in having a self-organised park with a view to the Elbe realised instead. With Park Fiction, a radically participatory planning procedure could be carried through, the first part of which – the phase of collective production of desires – is being financed since 1997 by funds from the municipal culture department’s programme for art in public space. This urban practice is discussed here within an expanded urban-theoretical frame. The text is part of the social, political and artistic Park Fiction process opening up perspectives for further activities in the urban field.

Arbeitsgruppe Park Fiction, artistic coordination: Margit Czenki, Christoph Schaefer

http://www.parkfiction.org