Slow Urban Planning: Tribsees' Zukunft machen

by Ton Matton (Editor)

Overview

Although public spaces in the former East Germany were elaborately refurbished after reunification, many small towns and villages continue to suffer from population exodus and high vacancy rates. One of those towns is Tribsees in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 70 of the 240 houses in the downtown area are currently unoccupied. In 2020, a team of artists and students led by Ton Matton engaged with a number of these buildings, sounding out possibilities and concepts for the future of the town in collaboration with residents. This resulted in new narratives of co-existence—involving large amounts of improvisation and not always in adherence to the letter of the law—based on individual responsibility, self-sufficiency, and local production.

Slow Urban Planning does more than document this project and its artistic interventions, some of which were implemented in the context of the Tribsees Centenniale. It also illuminates how urban planning processes tend to proceed in general, and how regulatory structures can be adapted in order to better integrate performative processes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783868598742
Publisher:	JOVIS
Publication date:	08/16/2023
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Language:	German
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Erneut gibt Indie-Urbanist, Opinionist und Utopist Ton Matton mit einer guten Portion Humor Einblick in seinen Erfahrungsschatz und teilt seine Ideen für die Wiederbelebung von Kleinstädten und Dörfern.

Ton Matton is an indie urbanist, opinionist, and utopian who is back again with a good dose of humor to deliver a fascinating inside perspective on his experiences and ideas for revitalizing small towns and villages.