THREE-QUARTERS OF TOWN ... but what city do we want?

This question was the Munich forum yesterday for the second time in its series City of questions in the import / export. It was the last date to ANDERS YOUNG OLD ... and how much spontaneity tolerate the public space?, This time the three speakers on individual quarters were changing their focus and perception.

Matching the location of the event began Anna Lina Häußermann
(Studied folklore / European Ethnology) with her presentation on the Station District. Through empirical research, they tried an inside perspective of the residents and businessmen of the district to work out and answer to their question, whether the station district was the center of urban life. People see the strangers and complexity of their neighborhood to be negative but to take, but at the same time take advantage of the opportunity, as the anonymity of individual freedom. This results in situations such as the Mosque of coexisting and table dancing bar in a house that shape the urban landscape. Anna Lina Häußermann pointed out that this composition of a district is never predictable. Urbanity need the chaos and surprise factor, and can only be individually
. grow

The next quarter of the evening was a miner at Laim. Stefanie Hamann (Fine Arts / Sculpture) so chose a different approach. The Promenadology, so the scientific walks, helped her find an access to. Their route took them from walking through industry and business stamped Leuchtenbergring the Streitfeldstraße 3 with their art works to the residential allotments, on to the brewery, the old center, the cockchafer settlement and eventually a cult factory. Through their perceptions and images they could give an impression that shows the different faces of the district.

Anna graduated from the Mießl (studying folklore / European
Anthropology), which deals precisely in their thesis with the Glockenbach / Gärtnerplatzviertel. A major aspect of their work is the question of the gentrification of the neighborhood. Through interviews, discourse and media analysis, they took stock access, from which one can recognize the different perspectives of change processes. The workers in the postwar period and red embossed quarter, allowed in the 1970's and 80's gay and lesbian community and also build a Others sought there a subculture against the bourgeoisie. Attracted to these alternatives but, soon concentrated the creative class and the media Glockenbach / Gärtnerplatzviertel became a trendy neighborhood. In the new millennium drew it to investors and it eventually became a luxury district. The important point is that the city is always a narrative space and even if small shops disappear in the quarter, long-established residents afford rent can not, then one should not gentrification, as shown so often thought of as a linear process. Rather, the decisive factors are interrelated and intertwined and highly dependent on the perspective of the viewer.

On 29 Available from 19 February clock is another chance to deal with the city. The Munich Forum invites to the last date in the import / export, and asks: INDOORS OR OUTDOORS ... and how much edge does the city need?