Project Management in Urban Design

Basics

Intro

Teaser: Basics
Theoretical-conceptual basics

Modes of Play

Coming into Play

Motive
Mobilising the brief
Lists
Processing Contingency
Coming into Play
Moving Fences

Play?

State of the art in research

How to Play

Preliminary Practice
Refining the Question
Intervene

Play

Doing

Baseline Survey
Organizing Agencies
Mini Golf

Reflecting

Importing Knowledge
Reflecting
Project Management

Recording

Making Videos
Notations

Displaying

Research Wall
Closing Ceremony

Understanding the Play

Moving beyond the question
Propositions in archives
A matter of re-assembling
Reflective Review: Begegnen

Project Closure

Project Closure

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Category: conception (15×) description (8×) manual (4×) reference (5×) synthesis (3×)
Contributors: Alexander Römer (2×) Andreas Meichner (1×) Anna Richter (3×) Anna-Sophie Seum (4×) Annika Bauer (3×) Atena Mahjoub (1×) Bernd Kniess (5×) Christopher Dell (4×) Diana Schäffer (4×) Dominique Peck (19×) Flora Fessler (2×) Franziska Dehm (1×) Johannes Schöckle (4×) Juliane Bötel (3×) Kirsten Plöhn (2×) Lena Enne (5×) Maja Momic (1×) Mareike Oberheim (4×) Marian Rudhart (3×) Marie Therese Jakoubek (1×) Marius Töpfer (1×) Milena Stoldt (1×) Negin Jahangiri (4×) Nina Manz (1×) Olena Pudova (3×) Pascal Scheffer (1×) Rebecca Wall (2×) Ronja Scholz (4×) Tomma Groth (1×) Yohanna Bund (1×)
Keywords: "Projects" (5×) action (1×) Communication (1×) Design (3×) Dokumentation (7×) Expertinnen des Alltags (1×) matters of form (3×) medium (4×) Minimal Structure (1×) notation (3×) planning (2×) problematisation (1×) Rothenburgsort (1×) stadtteilöffentlich (1×) Uncertainty (1×)

Dominique Peck has joined the Research and Teaching Programme Urban Design’s academic staff at HafenCity University in 2015. Being a UD alumni, his work has a focus on project management, design development and transposing formats in research, teaching and practice. Dominique was co-project managing the live project Building a Proposition for Future Activities and is now focused on his PhD Project Re-positioning Project Management in Urban Design.

Bernd Kniess is an architect and urban planner. Since 2008 he is Professor for Urban Design at HafenCity Universität Hamburg where he established the Master Programme Urban Design. He is interested in the negotiation of the contemporary city, whose planning principles he aims to diagrammatically describe and transfer into a relational practice as procedure.

Public space is where public life unfolds!
Stadtteilbeirat Rothenburgsort
Issues
The evening before
Exposé
Unbuilding
The Community of Deconstruction
From disciplines to disciplining
Learning from Las Vegas
Everyday Urbanism
Urban Design
Administered World
Open Form
Project Archaeology
Facilitate Uncertainty
Rules of Play
Workshop: Infrastructure
Cooperative Review Process
Project Days
Planänderung
Mediators
Conception
Interviews
Coproduction
Reflective Review
Performance
Talking Billebogen Atlas
Talking Stadteingang Elbbrücken
21. Situationen Rothenburgsort
Annäherungen an was?
Tod dem Projekt! Lang lebe der systemische Wandel
New Commons for Europe
Allesandersplatz
Die Stadt als offene Partitur
Give me a gun and I will make all buildings move

Play

Building a Proposition for Future Activities

Transposition 1: Project vs. Project Days
Transposition 2: Project Days vs. Planning Competition
Transposition 3: Planning Competition vs. Jury
Transposition 7: Completion of service phase 2 vs. Project Execution
References
HCU
HOOU
Imprint
Moving Fences
On Site
Kniess, Bernd and Marko Mijatovic. 2016. “Distance Strip.” Basics: Project Management in Urban Design. Hamburg. CC BY-SA 4.0.
In Studio
Buchholtz, Jules, and Marko Mijatovic. 2017. “Moving Fences.” Basics: Project Management in Urban Design. Hamburg. CC BY-SA 4.0

Doing, being active and action – in the broadest sense of the words, present the most powerful capacities of agencies. It is regarded as an unlimited quality. However, does that mean that there is unlimited space in the sense of an unrestricted field of action? Isn’t space being produced because there are limits to it? Does space define itself by areas that cannot be considered as space?
In a very basic understanding of space as: What can be done where – and defined as actions producing space. According to Hannah Arendt, space is something that comes to existence due to its limits. Arendt understands space as fields of originally unlimited action. However, that does not lead her to an idea of anything goes.

“Bevor das Handeln überhaupt beginnen kann, (muss) ein begrenzter Raum fertig- und sichergestellt werden, innerhalb dessen die Handelnden dann in Erscheinung treten (können), der Raum des öffentlichen Bereichs der Stadt (Polis), dessen innere Struktur das Gesetz ist; der Gesetzgeber und der Architekt gehören in die gleiche Berufskategorie. Aber der Inhalt des Politischen, das, worum es in dem politischen Leben der Stadtstaaten (geht), ist weder die Stadt noch das Gesetz – nicht Athen, sondern die Athener (sind) die Stadt (Polis)” (Rehm 2008, 30).

She understands space as the realm of interaction in a specific constellation of space and time. Space and space are hence not identical. Space exists only because it is limited - in both a structural and an ideal sense. It is the very product of human interplay.

“Weil sich der Handelnde immer unter anderen, ebenfalls handelnden Menschen bewegt, ist er niemals nur ein Täter, sondern immer auch zugleich einer, der erduldet. Handeln und Dulden gehören zusammen. (…). Es gibt kein auf einen bestimmten Kreis zu begrenzendes Agieren und Re-Agieren” (Brand 1971, 30).

Nevertheless Arendt stresses to be aware of the concept of space as produced and as potentially unlimited. Practically though, the production of space as a result of human interplay always has to be understood as something taking place, as an ersatz-activity.

Exams

What are the roles of the fence in the video? Present a line of thought and illustrate your thinking!

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Reveal answers

The fence displays what's what. It must be there, because HBauO § 14 calls for a security measures of all building activities. Consequently the fence marks the spaces for professionals – on the inside – and laypeople – on the outside. However, the fence can actually be moved, project managers can have agreements on how and where a transfer is manageable. What is clear here is, that in case anything happens, those who moved or jumped over the fence, will, most likely, be on their own.

References

Brand, Gerd. 1971. Die Lebenswelt: Eine Philosophie des konkreten Apriori. Walter de Gruyter.
Rehm, Patricia, 2008. Handeln als gelebter Wert: aus Hannah Arendts Leben und Werk ; Forschungsarbeit am Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Stephan Grätzel im Fachbereich Philosophie und Philologie der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz unter dem Titel Handeln als gelebter Wert, Aspekte aus Hannah Arendts Werk im Bezug zu Johann Gottfried Herder und Maurice Blondel. BoD – Books on Demand.