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While working on the “Perspektivplan Freiburg” we, a group of landscape architects and urban planners (cityförster, freiwurf, Stein+Schultz) walked the city quite a bit. On our walks one thing stroked us in particular: The intermediate spaces. Sitting between plaices of settlement, marking the city´s edge, they are very often dominated by technical infrastructures like roads or high voltage power lines. We built on that when designing strategies and spatial visions for Freiburg: The strategy CAPTURE! improves big streets for pedestrians and cyclists. We suggest using the unused roadside greenery for new houses and backyards. One of the three spatial visions we proposed for the future development of the city is called STRONG INTERCONNECTIONS and rethinks the city along its intermediate spaces. New dense neighbourhoods and open green spaces will be developed here. Most of our ideas emerged from the walks.

Perspektivplan Freiburg – Video spatial visions (German)

IBA Thüringen presents the Norwegian “Landscape Routes” as an outstanding example for landscape development. Knut Wold will present the approach on September 9 . I am very much looking forward to be part of the panel and discuss with him the role of path-making and architecture.

IBA Salon Landschaft erleben

Landscape Routes Norway

Stefan Kaegi, RIMINI PROTOKOLL, will present videos and comment on staged tours. His talk is part of the international conference “Let´s walk urban landscapes” of Studio Urbane Landschaften (funded by Volkswagen Foundation) – and it is open to the public! Come to Herrenhausen Palace in Hannover on September 1 at 8 pm.

LWUL Flyer Stefan Kaegi

How can we transform urban landscapes through innovative approaches in design research? Studio Urbane Landschaften asks this question at the international conference in Hannover (1.-3. Sept. 2015, funded by Volkswagen Foundation). I will contribute to the discussion with my talk “Why walking? Engagement and ideas” and a workshop on “Wandern”.

Conference program Let´s walk urban landscapes

Looking forward to discuss strategies for resilient landscape design with an interdisciplinary group of young professionals from China and Germany at Campus Zukunftsbrücke, made possible by Mercator Program Center for International Affairs.

Zukunftsbrücke

Why walking when designing landscapes? My talk on June 1 2015 at Bauhaus University Weimar will dance around this question. I will present my experiences and findings on walking as a method of large scale landscape design. Engagement is the key to finding ideas!
Landschaftserkundungen Bauhaus Weimar

For his new booklet artist Boris Sieverts searched Google Earth and rediscovered paths he used to walk. 21 aerial photographs and short texts tell fascinating stories of urban landscapes in the German City of Cologne and its surroundings. The paths are very often a result of individual appropriation of sites that were vacant due to pending or given-up plans to build new roads or buildings. Website Boris Sieverts