Topic: The future of neighborhoods - keynote speeches and panel discussion
- Elena Schirnding de Almeida (Chair of Urban Design, Technical University of Munich)
- Jan Kamensky (Visual Utopias)
- Jörg Spengler (BA Chairman and Cycling Officer for District Committee 5)
- Dr. Uwe Kranenpohl (Deputy Chairman of the UA "Mobility and Transport" in BA 17 and Professor of Political and Administrative Sciences)
- Master students of the aqt Summer School
- Moderation: Oliver May-Beckmann (Managing Director MCube)
When and where: Friday, 23.09.2022, from 16.30 - 18.00 at the corner of Sommerstraße and Schlotthauerstraße. The square will be closed for the Speaker Series.
Registration: here
What is it all about? The future of mobility - the future of neighborhoods | What will the urban neighborhood of tomorrow look like? Not the newly planned and realized neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city, but the existing, grown, ordinary neighbourhoods in our cities?
Come with us to the Südliche Au, where for one day we will transform parking spaces into a laboratory of ideas and a place for constructive exchange. Here we will discuss international and regional trends as well as Utopias experience how people will be mobile in the neighborhood of tomorrow. In addition to our experts, we are offering the master's students of the aqt (Autoreduzierte Quartiere) Summer School in particular the opportunity to present their concrete ideas for the Südliche Au and Walchenseeplatz in Munich and to receive feedback from all participants.
We look forward to the input of the following experts:
Elena Schirnding de Almeida
Dipl.-Ing. Architect and Urban Planner | Professorship Urban Design | Technical University of Munich
About the person: Elena is an architect and urban planner. She heads the Public Planning Lab at TUM, which brings together participants from the fields of structural engineering, urban planning, water management, road construction, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering and tests interdisciplinary cooperation. Elena researches innovations in urban planning at the Urban Design professorship and is particularly interested in the role of planning and building administrations. She studied architecture at TUM and at the UFPR in Brazil and, after working as a freelance planning architect, completed her traineeship in urban planning at the City of Munich.
Jan Kamensky
Utopian from Hamburg
About the person: Hamburg-based artist Jan Kamensky describes himself as a visual utopian and digital gardener. Since 2020, he has been creating unique animations in which he playfully visualizes the transformation of car-friendly streets into people-friendly places. By ridding streets of cars in a humorous way and planting virtual trees, he wants to sow a new awareness in people's minds. Previous viewing habits are to be weaned away. Nowadays, roads are inextricably linked with cars. This is a modern phenomenon that needs to be changed. Roads should be associated with people. Kamensky's utopian approach has a decisive function: after the viewers have been able to take a look at the contrasting utopia, they return to reality with a sharpened view - an invitation to reflect on the current situation. The aim is to change our view of the world we live in. The focus is on expanding awareness, not so much on feasibility. Even if he would certainly be happy to see it realized!
Jörg Spengler
Chairman of the Au-Haidhausen District Committee | Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
About the person: As a traffic turnaround activist and local politician, Jörg Spengler is not only very interested in the idea of "car-reduced neighborhoods", he would go even further and aim for a car-free Munich by 2030. On a theoretical level, the city of Munich is already moving a long way in the right direction. In 2021, it agreed on the "Mobility Strategy 2035". It states that "streets are also important living spaces that significantly shape the image and quality of life of our city." In Au-Haidhausen, there is a lot of sympathy for changes in terms of quality of life and greenery. We want less car traffic and parking spaces and more trees and park benches. But how can we achieve a rapid turnaround in transportation through grassroots democracy and dialogue with citizens? What can be convincing alternatives to the private car? I hope that the discussion and the AQT project as a whole will provide answers to these questions.
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