Sharing the City: 5 Takes on How We Should Create and Use Public Space
On December 1st 2017, reSITE invited a handful of intellectuals to Berlin for the My City / Your City salon held in partnership with Airbnb, spending a day and night with them brainstorming about public space, sharing, and inclusiveness. To close the event, we served them a cocktail of simple questions that were not always easy to answer.
On December 1st 2017, reSITE invited a handful of intellectuals to Berlin for the My City / Your City salon held in partnership with Airbnb, spending a day and night with them brainstorming about public space, sharing, and inclusiveness. To close the event, we served them a cocktail of simple questions that were not always easy to answer.In the following text, artist Charlie Koolhaas, the architect and founding partner of Topotek 1 Martin Rein-Cano, the curator and writer Lukas Feireiss, the curator and architect Anna Scheuermann, and the professor Ivan Kucina, share their various opinions on issues ranging from how best to create public space to their thoughts on the very principle of sharing.
Founder and Chairman of reSITE Martin Barry addresses attendees. Image © Tomas Princ
If you had to write a manifesto for a good public space of the 21st century, what would be the most obvious thing that would have to be included in this manifesto"Martin Rein-Cano: I do not believe in manifestos. So I would write public spaces do not need a manifesto... That is the first thing I would write.Lukas Feireis...
On December 1st 2017, reSITE invited a handful of intellectuals to Berlin for the My City / Your City salon held in partnership with Airbnb, spending a day and night with them brainstorming about public space, sharing, and inclusiveness. To close the event, we served them a cocktail of simple questions that were not always easy to answer.In the following text, artist Charlie Koolhaas, the architect and founding partner of Topotek 1 Martin Rein-Cano, the curator and writer Lukas Feireiss, the curator and architect Anna Scheuermann, and the professor Ivan Kucina, share their various opinions on issues ranging from how best to create public space to their thoughts on the very principle of sharing.
Founder and Chairman of reSITE Martin Barry addresses attendees. Image © Tomas Princ
If you had to write a manifesto for a good public space of the 21st century, what would be the most obvious thing that would have to be included in this manifesto"Martin Rein-Cano: I do not believe in manifestos. So I would write public spaces do not need a manifesto... That is the first thing I would write.Lukas Feireis...
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