Academic, artistic and cultural :: Constructive imaginings of the discordant . Making heritage of urban movements . Hajde
The Garden of (not) Forgetting :: Reflection . Nevşünema . Memory of a place, topography of destruction . Many places on the trail of a place . Mehpare's herbarium . Whispers' garden .
Last year's herbarium . Last year's catalogue . The pool . Seeds from the Earth . Remembering exercises . A sequence from a garden; whispers, seeds, traces
Spatial design :: Winter Garden . Visiting Scholars and Guest Artist Offices . Reading Room . Imaginable Guidelines
Plankton Project :: durak Ovacık . gölge Seferihisar
Visual design :: The Garden of (not) Forgetting . Hajde . Aidiyet [production] . Aidiyet [visual]
Study experience :: Sound Topography . Observers' Route . Loafer Cinema . All that is Solid . Summer Homes: Claiming the Coast.
MAKING HERITAGE OF URBAN MOVEMENTS
A case study, Tempelhofer Feld Urban Movements
type Research, Presentation
role researcher
team supervised by Prof. Dr Daniela Zupan (IFEU), Dr Lela Rekhviashvili (IFL)
Guided Research Project
Bauhaus University of Weimar
Institute for European Urbanism;
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography
Weimar, Leipzig, 2020-2021
From the closure of Tempelhofer Airport and the field in 2008 till 2014, the field’s opening to public use was a subject of an extensive urban movement that comprised demonstrations, protests, squats, workshops, panels, petitions campaigns and a referendum in 2014. A wide range of Berlin residents had been involved in different parts of these urban movements for democratic decision making over green space and heritage areas and to protect surrounding neighbourhoods from possible gentrification waves. As a result, Tempelhofer Feld is an open urban space for the use of Berliners today and protected by a public law constituted by a regional referendum.
This analysis questioned how these urban movements’ story, long years of public participation on various levels and its result, is narrated and interpreted as an urban heritage by two actor groups involved: citizen initiatives and city officials. Representation and communication take a vital part in transmitting and narrating meanings in heritage discourse and practice. Therefore, this research focused on websites of selected stakeholder groups as channels of representation and communication that are maintained by these groups. The narrative analysis aims to examine meanings and stories portrayed with texts and images on the stakeholder’s websites. The research aims to share the essential findings of the analysis and draw new questions regarding the urban heritage as both a source and a result of conflicts and stakeholders’ role as producers of narratives of urban heritage.
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