park in progress.
City Lab on the move in the ramparts
The fourth City Lab on the move took place on 23 hectares of green space, five kilometers in length, in seven plant sections and between 1919 trees.
The open-air exhibition in the ramparts focused on the green space itself: how important is the park on the site of the former city fortification for life in the city nowadays? Over one hundred participants worked on the exhibition for a year and collaborated to define the content, exhibition locations and events. The heterogenous group shared the aim of putting the ramparts into context and making the public aware of the Wallservitut preservation order which protects the green space against development in order to preserve it.
Project blog
Film
Wallanlagen app
Documentation
Crowdfunding-Aktion
In 60 contributions, which could be accessed with a walking map and a smartphone app, the co-curators provided a subjective remapping of the city centre park. In addition to the historical, sociological and artistic contributions, a key question was that of the relationship between personal interests and public space: who decides how public spaces are used and can they become a location for meeting and communication again?
A bright yellow trail, advertising pillars and art installations provided a varied walk and appealed to all park visitors. Over 60 events in the supporting programme attracted a lot of attention to the ramparts in the summer of 2014. The numerous positive feedback demonstrated above all, that the exhibition met the demand for historical identification and engagement with public spaces in Frankfurt.
Frankfurter Wallanlagen [ramparts]
Director: Jan Gerchow
Project management: Susanne Gesser
Curator: Sonja Thiel
City Lab team: Angela Jannelli, Puneh Henning, Franziska Mucha
Press communication: Corinna Engel
Exhibition design: exposition GbR, Sabine Gutjahr, Martin Krämer
Exhibition graphics: GARDENERS.de, Ines Blume, Nicola Ammon
Exhibition film: Alexandra Vetter
Realisation of the app: Delius Digital
Spomenka Aleckovic, Gisela Becker, Meiki Beck, Jenni Benert, Dieter Church, Veronika Czech, Swantje Dahlen, Hans-Georg Dannert, Christiane Dubuque, Nora Finzel, Helga Franke, Hubert Gloss, Irene Glueck, Jan-Paul Goroncy, Klaus Hannappel, Hiltrud Hauschke, Ferdinand Heide, Cornelia F. Ch. Heier, Herbert Heise, Steven Heller, Gisela Henning, Susanne Hieble, Jelena Hild, Winfried Hofmann-Jarczyck, Jochen Ickert, Pablo Jacoby, Gabriele Juvan, Brigitte Kämpf, Verena Kuni, Stella Krämer, Karolin Leitermann, Felix Leuschner, Irene Meyer, Julia Mihály, Ingeborg Müller, Katharina Müller, Frank Paulun, Hans-Joachim Prenzel, Arno Rothacker, Bernhard Schaaf, Christina Scheitterer, Peter Schermer, Doris Schmidt, Gudrun Schmidt, Helmut Schubert, Pupils at the Anna-Schmidt school, Tim Schuster, Peter Seidel, Rudolf Sievers, Gabriele Steiner, Manfred Steiner, Sonja Thäder, Jörg Thums, Ingrid Wentzell
Frankfurter Sparkasse (Partner of the City Lab on the move)
Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main
Office for Multicultural Affairs
Aventis Foundation - KulturMut
Frankfurt active neighbourhood programme
Hertie Foundation,
Hessen and Thuringia Sparkasse cultural foundation
European Central Bank
Friends & supporters of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt
ING-DiBa
Arnold Verkehrsabsicherungen
BBS Speditions-GmbH
FES
Ortsbeirat 1
and our City Lab crowd, many thanks!
Literaturhaus Frankfurt, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Kulturamt, Grünflächenamt, Umweltamt, Project group GrünGürtel, AMKA, Denkmalamt, academia de tango, ADFC, AG Geschichte Nachbarschaftszentrum Ostend, Anna-Schmidt school, Anlagenberater Architekten, Bürgerinstitut Rothschildpark, Büro Gabriele Juvan, Bundesverband der Migrantinnen e.V., evanda - Leben mit Parkinson e.V., FES, Flemings Hotel Deluxe, Howard-Philipps-Haus, Initiative 9. November, Initiative Rettet die Bäume-Rettet die Wallanlagen, integrative drogenhilfe e.V. Café FriedA, Katakombe Kulturhaus Frankfurt, KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain, Landessportbund Hessen, Literaturbetrieb e.V, Pakbann e.V., Theaterhaus Kinder- und Jugendtheater Schützenstraße
Shiva Adhikari, Zehra Ayyildiz, Fritz Backhaus, Jacques Bailly, Chrishanthy Balasubramaniam, Jessica Beebone, Moritz von Bethmann, Brigitte Bliedtner, Frieder Blümlein, Martin Bruch, Michael Bunkenburg, Jean-Paul Dostal, Brigitte Euler, Peter Feldmann, Sybille Fuchs, Margrit Gleich, Andrea Hampl, Andrea Heshiki, Robin Hildebrandt, residents of the Howard-Philipps house, Hauke Hückstädt, Rudi Hampl, Astrid Holbein, Schorsch Kamerun, Lisa Keiper, Oliver Kirst, Jürgen Klee, Klezmers Techter, Malgorzata Kozarzewska, Alexander Kratz, Benno Henning von Lange, Thorsten Leissner, Tosh Leykum, Amir Mansoor, Ulrike May, Heidrun Merk, Carola Moritz, Simone Oppl, Peter Postleb, clients of FriedA: Tobias, Damir, Thomas B., Thomas P., Holger (+), Peter, Chris, etc., Hans-Peter Sattler, Christian Setzepfand, Annegreth Schilling, Wolfgang Schatton, Rolf Schmitz, Annina Schubert, Sybille Schrempp, Dieter Seitz, Lydia Specht, Dieter Stadtmüller, Jürgen Steinmetz, Ernst Straub, Hannah Schwegler, Hanno Rauterberg, Jutta Timmermann, Sofja Vinarskaia, Barbara Walzer, Eva-Gesine Wegner, Björn Wissenbach, Horst Ziegenfusz, Rainer Zimmermann and the team at the Historisches Museum Frankfurt
Thank you to everyone who contributed!
