Forum_Stadtwildnis offline/online platform

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21/01/2020, 11:30

Quote from annika on 21/01/2020, 11:30
project by Annika Böcher & Mona Steinmetzer

“forum stadtwildnis” is a project about creating visions for another future in the city. It started by analysing the Lainzer Tiergarten in Vienna and moved to the site of Stadtwildnis Margaretengürtel.

When it comes to the climate crisis, many despair after reading and hearing about it – especially when we get new signs that we are right in the middle of this crisis, year after year.

This is pretty understandable, because we – the so-called generation Y or millennials – have been raised in a rather stable European situation, founded on the European Union and the understanding that the world is being developed into a better, healthier and safer one. When realising that above all, what is in fact progressing is climate change, the younger generations of this planet have united and are demanding change:
A sustainable future for everyone.

Based on these ideas and emotions, we felt that we needed to go beyond planning to bring nature “back” into the city and tried to gather the many information that we collected in one semester and bring it all together. The climate crisis, trees and their influence on climate and the city, art projects dealing with nature, alternative political systems, transportation in cities, participatory practices – coming all together in the sense of equity and fairness as the linking entities.

We started with the assumption that the governing people have realised we actually need a system change – and getting away from the idea that everything has to be done for some profit. The city of Vienna would be functioning without individual car-transport, the affordable housing program that has already been established would be pursued and developed, all open space is planned to be accessible by every person and the understanding for real participation by the citizens that also allows conflict, has been accomplished.

Therefore we decided to develop “a collective space for democracy & urban forestation” that performs both online and offline. The offline space, starting from the Stadtwildnis Margareten/Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel, is a common space governed by the people who live there. The online space, a website and forum, can be accessed from everywhere and acts as place for discussion and knowledge exchange.

project by Annika Böcher & Mona Steinmetzer

“forum stadtwildnis” is a project about creating visions for another future in the city. It started by analysing the Lainzer Tiergarten in Vienna and moved to the site of Stadtwildnis Margaretengürtel.

When it comes to the climate crisis, many despair after reading and hearing about it – especially when we get new signs that we are right in the middle of this crisis, year after year.

This is pretty understandable, because we – the so-called generation Y or millennials – have been raised in a rather stable European situation, founded on the European Union and the understanding that the world is being developed into a better, healthier and safer one. When realising that above all, what is in fact progressing is climate change, the younger generations of this planet have united and are demanding change:
A sustainable future for everyone.

Based on these ideas and emotions, we felt that we needed to go beyond planning to bring nature “back” into the city and tried to gather the many information that we collected in one semester and bring it all together. The climate crisis, trees and their influence on climate and the city, art projects dealing with nature, alternative political systems, transportation in cities, participatory practices – coming all together in the sense of equity and fairness as the linking entities.

We started with the assumption that the governing people have realised we actually need a system change – and getting away from the idea that everything has to be done for some profit. The city of Vienna would be functioning without individual car-transport, the affordable housing program that has already been established would be pursued and developed, all open space is planned to be accessible by every person and the understanding for real participation by the citizens that also allows conflict, has been accomplished.

Therefore we decided to develop “a collective space for democracy & urban forestation” that performs both online and offline. The offline space, starting from the Stadtwildnis Margareten/Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel, is a common space governed by the people who live there. The online space, a website and forum, can be accessed from everywhere and acts as place for discussion and knowledge exchange.

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