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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!

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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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Peck, Dominique, Christopher Dell, Bernd Kniess, and Marko Mijatovic. 2016. “Open form on site.” Basics: Project Management in Urban Design. Hamburg. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Dell, Christopher, Dominique Peck, Bernd Kniess, and Marko Mijatovic. 2017. “Open Form.” Basics: Project Management in Urban Design. Hamburg. CC BY-SA 4.0

As a person interested in managing urban design projects, you will most likely be aware of the distinction between the city as a passive and controllable matter - the closed form - and the city as a contemporary and future urban society in the practice forms of co-production and permanent reproduction - an approach to the city as an open form.

Since this differentiation has far-reaching consequences but is easily overlooked and misinterpreted, I would like to illustrate this key aspect of project management in urban design as a regime of practices of living with and in projects.

We begin with the relationship between epistemology and ontology. The epistemology of space at the general level deals with the nature and extent of knowledge about space. This concern is closely intertwined with the ontology of space, since the “what” - the vision of the occurrence and definition of something - can be difficult to separate from the “how” - the way we get to know the “what” (Hollis 1994). This relationship between the “what” and the “how” of space is not fixed, but is constantly evolving (Massey 2005).

The epistemological possibilities of open form are encountered in dealing with form. The source of knowledge - how and why - does not lie in the pure aesthetics of form, but in the relationships between form and material. It is the aesthetic of open form that undermines the reduction of form to its naked product when it mobilizes and supports a process that deals with its potential values. These are composed of material constellations of a situation and thus give the appearance of a form. We can only call the form an open form if we can ensure the mobilization and continuous support of a process. Project management in the field of urban development aims to reunite knowledge - how and why - in the relationships of actors and situations in the process.

Project work must address the problem of the disappearance of the process behind the product. Therefore, as an integral part of project management in urban design, research not only aims to educate the designer about the city, but is a reflective exploration of our own perspectives, lenses and membranes that construct the city as an object of research and design. This means not discrediting urban processes such as DIY building efforts, urban social movements or organizational improvisations as informal, but looking at their ontological principle from a different perspective. The earlier we open forms, the easier it is to deal with the potential values of the city. This ultimately opens up political aspects of project management in urban planning: the question of values in urban development projects is structurally significant, since the epistemology and ontology of form represent a hegemonic order of things. The process of form opening through project management in urban design enables the de-naturalization and renegotiation of this mandate.

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Issue date: 01/03/2019
Entry date: 10/06/2020
Contributors: Bernd Kniess Christopher Dell
Keywords: matters of form

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