Workshop and walk on the occasion of the Day of Architecture with Jenny Krüger, Susanne Lüttich and Diana Lucas-Drogan
The cityscape of Neubrandenburg is characterized by ambiguity: Brick Gothic and Eastern Modernism collide with each other and create cracks in the acceptance and living qualities within the city.
In this dynamic, we want to use the method of walking and reading together to explore the built environment as a living and vibrant archive. Reading original planning documents and photos of the urban upheavals enables us to try out a shared dialog, to engage with the planning ideologies as material. Together with planners, contemporary witnesses and guests, we decode the ideologies, concepts and references of the planning culture of the last two development areas in Neubrandenburg in the GDR by walking through the sites and in connection with planning material. The 1980s were characterized by the first sensitive adaptations and also great resistance to the planning practices. In the Rostocker Viertel, we want to explore the conflict, the courage and also the sensitivities of planning.
The infrastructural intervention caused by the relocation of the road necessitated radical plans between demolition and the construction of high-rise towers on Lake Tollensesee and at the same time led to resistance from residents. In the hope of having learned from the previous restructuring of the city, resistance from the population grew. Politically, however, the planning department around Iris Dullin-Grund stuck to the dogmas. The second walk is dedicated to this ambivalence of the time.
The basis of the shared reading is the insight into planning documents and photos, which are brought into the walk as material with contemporary witnesses.
