Project Management in Urban Design

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Project Management

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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
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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

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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
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HCU
HOOU
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Facilitate Uncertainty
Column A

We were able to implement the minimal structure of the project days with the exception of a few aspects such as the plans made in advance. But how can we initiate, maintain and conclude the encounter of actors in the field, which per se involves great uncertainty?

About column A

The aim of the project days was to develop the spatial program of the future Begegnungshaus through joint actions in a prototypical framework. Following the title of the project, participants, with their expertise as producers of the everyday space of cities, quarters and houses, should be involved as thoroughly and as much as possible in the planning process Building A Proposition For Future Activities. This is based on the understanding of space as relational and generated by actions, while at the same time actions are generated. While conventional participation methods often only allow for a discussion of the already set goal, the research and teaching program Urban Development tries to counter this closed form with a participation methodology based on common actions - and thus to open up the form.

Structurally, the definition of the project days as an open form is an attempt to allow and enable the transposition of uncertainty into the “planning bureau”. Questions are invited and supposed truths are put up for negotiation. In addition to the rules of the game and the archive of things, the role of the performance facilitator was therefore to structure the common processing of uncertainty during the project days. This role was assumed by Kristin Guttenberg. Her task was to absorb the resulting uncertainties and transform them into a productive sense of impact. With Christopher Dell's definition of improvisation technology as a constructive handling of disorder in socio-material constellations (2016), it was therefore the task of the performance moderator to deal with uncertainty and, by actively doing this, to enable improvisation.

During the project days, improvisation was the way in which the existing orders and their supposed truths were transformed into a common design. This was the basic prerequisite for a collaborative design process becoming possible instead of offering apparent solutions to unclear problems. The questions: “What is encounter?” and “How does encounter take place?” were therefore posed before it was materially determined what a meeting house should look like.

Social truths and orders, which Bourdieu (1987) understood, for example, as four different types of capital (social, cultural, economic and symbolic), were also broken down and opened during the project days. A political space in which negotiations can take place should therefore take the place of a space already pre-structured by power or violence (e.g. by an assumed “knowledge gap” or decision-making hierarchies). Arguing with Hannah Arendt, one prerequisite for political space is to renounce conventions of power and violence and instead to return to argumentative negotiations in (unintentional) communication. The facilitation of performance during the project days had the task of breaking through existing groupings and hierarchies as a structuring force - in contrast to a prescriptive force - through joint actions.

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Issue date: 11/15/2018
Entry date: 10/06/2020
Contributors: Rebecca Wall
Keywords: Uncertainty
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References

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1987. The subtle differences: critique of social judgement. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Dell, Christopher. 2016. Epistemology of the city: improvisational practice and creative diagrammatics in an urban context. Urban studies. Bielefeld: transcript.
Jaeggi, Rahel. 2016. What about Hannah Arendt? Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition HIS.