The City as a Resonance Space

The work 'City as Resonance Space' deals with the question of the appropriability of urban space on a participatory level and tries to find an answer to the question of alienation and its effect on urban form by means of the 'resonance theory' of the german sociologist Hartmut Rosa.

The basic prerequisite for a city as a resonance space is the participation of all people concerned in the design process of the urban space. The aim of the participatory design process is to enable all people to carry their self-efficacy into the space. If the city can be understood as a resonance space, it suddenly becomes the projection surface of a discourse for society as a whole. The Eichbühlstrasse, on the threshold between the established urban landscape and the suburban landscape still strongly influenced by industry, serves as a testing ground. The neighbourhood road has many of the determinants, but with a limited complexity compared to the cantonal roads. In order to break up the urban crust in a metaphorical sense, the public space must be thought of as dynamic and transformable in all its structures. Temporary spatial structures that overlay the determinacy of the existing street space enable a situational play on a place and allow for a spatial and temporal multiple readability. The artist's own work in the space creates an emotional relationship to it. A sense of responsibility towards the public space is created. The breaking open of the urban crust in the literal sense represents the initial moment of the participatory act. By means of a wagon loaded with equipment, metal sleeves can be placed in the urban space. The sleeves serve as a foundation for the pile in the asphalted area of the urban space. The pile can be placed in unsealed areas without a sleeve. The subversive work in the urban space is understood as a questioning of the residents according to their needs and demands. The freedom of design made possible by this, but also the constitutive potential for conflict, causes both the world and the residents to vibrate. A resonance space is created, which inspires and is further transformed by inspiration.