Workshop and walk with Jenny Krüger, Susanne Lüttich and Diana Lucas-Drogan to the exhibition "Wohnkomplex Neubrandenburg".
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 will enable us to try out a shared dialog and 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 adjustments and also great resistance to the planning practices. In two neighborhoods of Neubrandenburg (Katharinenviertel, Rostocker Viertel) we want to explore the ambivalence, the courage and also the sensitivities of planning.
Planned as a megastructure in the 1970s, the technoid planning dogma of large buildings was reduced in the 1980s to a prefabricated building design that even took up the ornamentation and in some cases dispensed with the demolition of historic buildings.
In the workshop, we will decode the giant machines planned for the Katharinenviertel and take a 360-degree look at the urban morphology together. We will read the dichotomy between the planned grand gestures and the built small gestures in a joint walk.
