Slow Urban Planning: Tribsees’ Zukunft machen

Ton Matton

Print Only Published by JOVIS 2023

Slow Urban Planning

Tribsees’ Zukunft machen

Ton Matton

Overview

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: JOVIS
Pages
- Main content: 160
Illustrations
- Other: zahlr. farb. Abb.
Keywords: Small towns and villages; Tribsees; Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; participation; rural development; urban development; vacancy rates; future; improvisation; responsibility; self-sufficiency; local production; urban development; climate change; regional land use development

Hardcover

Published: June 19, 2023
ISBN: 9783868598742