LED2LEAP 2020 - Nuertingen Team 1
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| Area | Klein-Tischardt | |
| Place | Nürtingen | |
| Country | Germany | |
| Topics | Urban acupuncture | |
| Author(s) | Kathrin Berlinger, Valerie Gunzenhäuser, Lukas Klapprott, Paula Seifert | |
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Landscape Democracy Rationale
The community has a lot of potential. It has an amazing location close to the city center and is located next to a river. It has a variety of different groups and beautiful landscape spaces. Yet those spaces are barely used because they are either hard to acces or its lacking ideas for a use and the different social groups are rather socially isolated from each other. We see the challenge in connecting the different groups and residents from the district Klein-Tischardt and to give them a feeling of community and identification with their district. The challenge is to bring them together in a landscape that allows people to interact with each other and with the landscape itself.
Location and scope
Phase A: Mapping your Community
Welcome to your community and its landscape
Klein-Tischardt is part of the city Nürtingen, located in South-Germany. It has strong boundaries such as a railway track, the big river "Neckar" and the "Steinach" stream. Most of the area is a housing area with a village-like character and there is a commercial area in the west. The citizens here are very mixed, there are different social classes, refugee housings and lots of elderly people due to a big nursing home.
Problematic is the main road Metzinger Straße as it is unsafe for bikes and pedestrians, also it’s dividing the area. Furthermore many non-residents park in the district because it's free and close to the city center.
The area is shown by the red line, the rivers are blue und the yellow line shows a busy mainroad which crosses Klein-Tischardt.
People from the community having a festivity.
Groups of actors and stakeholders in your community
There are a couple of groups that can be found in Klein-Tischardt. The residents are families, senior citizens, students and internationals like migrants and refugees. Then there are also some kind of institutions and sub-groups like the Fridays For Future group with their "Bunte Beete" project, the integration office, the rowing club which is highly frequented, the baptism church, a collective bar named "Silberburg" and some small businesses and companies.
With regard to the landscape there are some needs and aspirations the different groups share and some are more specific. In general, there should be space for meetings, neighborhood reinforcement and for events. Furthermore, lots of people would like to get a better acces to the riverside. Families and the kindergarden need play and leisure room. The Fridays For Future group already uses some space for an urban gardening area which they want to expand.
In general, the Fridays For Future group in Nürtingen is quite active and therefor visible. The rowing club attracts many people from all over the city and the silberburg used to be active a lot too. Unfortunately not every group is as visible as others. Refugees are mostly active in their own group, just as the students are. Retailers and the Integration Office aren't very present either.
There are different groups in this community. For example: senior citizens, the rowing club, refugees, families.
A lot of senior citizens live in a nursing home. Some young people are active in groups like "Fridays For Future"
Relationships between your actors and groups
In general the groups are willing to communicate with each other. There were community and planning workshops in the past that worked well and citizens also have the chance to voice their opinion and influence desicions made by the municipality. The municipality and investors mostly have the power of money and are powerfull when it comes to a final decision. But also political parties often speak up and influence with their opinions. A special right to be heard has the tire business at the Gerberplatz. It has been there for at least 50 years now and they own multiple houses in the neighborhood, wherefor they have a voice when it comes to the design of the Gerberplatz.
Summary of your learnings from the transnational discussion panel on April 22
We saw how many different and interesting projects are part of this year's LED2LEAP seminar. We learned about different kinds of analytic methods. For instance other groups used statistics and analyzed different subjects and levels. We got constructive comments: We should focus on the less known. We should try to find what we don’t know yet and to find the ‘unrepresented’ people and groups. And through that we might have a better chance to advance landscape democracy.If we look closer at the government system and demographics we might understand the democracy process better and find out who is not able to participate in democracy or participation methods. All in all we will look closer to what's visible and invisible.
Theory reflection
We found many theories from Section A interesting and we learned a lot. Especially the “people centred landscape concept” and “no landscape without knowledge” are interesting ways to look at the landscape with different views from different people. And we started to wonder which puzzle pieces of the landscape do we not know about. We also enjoyed to hear about “planning for development I and II” and “P.A.R. feedback loop” since we are landscape architecture design students and it gives us new ideas about the planning and design processes. But we have to admit that it was hard for us to use the theories for the community mapping task.
- People centred landscape concept: based on landscape knowledge. From the LED2LEAP Phase A Session 2: "rather than being mere assemblages of physical objects, landscapes are “constructed” in people’s minds." (Ipsen, D. 2012. Space, place and perception: The sociology of landscape, in (ed.) Bell, S., Sarlöv Herlin, I., Stiles, R., Exploring the Boundaries of Landscape Architecture, London and New York: Routledge) / (Kühne, O., 2013. Landschaftstheorie & Landschaftspraxis, Wiesbaden: Springer VS) / (Gailing, L., Leibenath, M., 2015. The Social Construction of Landscapes: Two Theoretical Lenses and Their Empirical Applications. Landscape Research, Volume 40, Issue 2)
- Planning for development: Discover - Plan - Build - Review and multiple iterations. Planning as a process that allows revision and improvement. (www.trustradius.com)
- Three columns model of contemporary democracy: The responsibility and engagement of every citizen is the base for the representative democracy, the direct democracy and the participatory democracy. (Christian Felber: The economy of the common good (Gemeinwohlökonomie), 2010, p. 109)
References
- www.neo.hfwu.de (material that was given to us for our design project)
- www.nuertingen.de
- "Bunte Beete" Nürtingen
Phase B: Democratic Landscape Analysis and Assessment
The Scene in your Story of Analysis
- Describe your landscape democracy challenge. What is the physical scene, specific description of the landscape? What are the socio-economic and political characteristics of place? Are there any important contextual elements?
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The area of Klein-Tischardt and its important spatial chracteristics like the Neckar and the railway track.
The Actors in your Story of Analysis
- Describe the characters and their role in the story. Are they major or minor characters? Are there any key relationships that need to be defined?
- add the corresponding visual from your presentation to the image gallery below
Each animal represents a social group in Klein-Tischardt.
The Story of Analysis
- Describe the plot of the story and how it plays out.
- add the corresponding visual from your presentation to the image gallery below
- add as many additional images as you like
Reflect on your Story of Analysis
- How did the tools you chose for landscape analysis fit your community? Reflect on the questions: What did you carry? Why did you carry? How did you carry? What remains after you've left? (150 words)
- add the corresponding visual from your presentation to the image gallery below
- Yourcase refelction1.jpg
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Phase C: Collaborative Visioning and Goal Setting
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Phase D: Collaborative Design, Transformation and Planning
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Phase E: Collaborative Design, Transformation and Planning
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= Phase E: Collaborative Evaluation and Future Agendas * template coming
Process Reflection
- Reflect in your intercultural and interdisciplinary team on the outcomes of your study
- Which limitations were you facing?
- What have you learnt from each other?
- What would you do differently next time?
- You can also use diagrams/visuals
- 250 words text