Article by Hanna Lutz, referring to our book “Urban Hacking”…<\/p>\n
The “end of public space” is proclaimed often. Urban researchers
\ncomplain about increasing and omnipresent surveillance methods in as well as
\nextensive privatization of public areas. The discussion about the decline in
\npublic space also focuses on the ubiquity of advertising messages in urban space,
\nwhere facades and transit shelters now cycle through online casino<\/a> promotions,
\ntelecom offers, and real estate listings around the clock, and the so called
\n“architecture of control” that subtly instructs urban residents’ behavior.
\nEntering the aforementioned key words on google it brings up hundreds of books,
\npapers, essays, articles, lectures, panel discussions etc. about the incorrect,
\ncontorted or ruined form of public space. Walking around several European or
\nNorth American cities with a vigilant eye though, you can find a lot of interventions
\nthat face these tendencies creatively with direct actions: billboards turned to
\nplant-holders, self-made zebra crossings and bike lanes, parking lots converted
\ninto picnic areas, \u2026 In this and future posts I want to give an overview about
\nthese direct actions, so called “Urban Hacks”, as a reaction to the loss of public
\nspace and show their value in terms of protecting its ideal forms.
\n[…]
\nA couple of months ago, Valentin<\/a> gave a very nice introduction to Pop-Up-Urbanism<\/a>
\nand showed several examples of how residents install temporary add-ons
\nin the city in order to reactivate distressed or vacant space and also
\nto fulfill their needs within their urban environment. Urban Hacking
\ngoes a bit further than that and is a direct reaction to developments in
\nthe city Urban Hackers see as threatening public space. Following the
\nbook “Urban Hacking. Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity”<\/a>, I choose the term Urban Hacking<\/em> for those kind of (re)actions, but expand its definition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nLink<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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