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- September 30, 2024
Thriving Ruins.Entanglements of More-Than-Human Entities Producing Urban Assemblages of the Neuländer Quarree
Urban Design Project 2 "Thriving Ruins.Entanglements of More-Than-Human Entities Producing Urban Assemblages of the Neuländer Quarree“ by Amy Cimerman, Frederike Grothues, Jorid Lange, and Rebecca Renz.
"A wasteland, a ruin, a failed urban development project, a victim of property speculation, a patch of nature in the city, a contaminated site. The Neuländer Quarree in Hamburg, Harburg has many attributes. One would never guess that residential and office buildings, hotels, and an underground car park were once planned to be built here. Large trees, dense bushes, and wide meadows catch the eye as one approaches the site. Construction fences block the access. The area remains in a liminal state, waiting for the next investor, the next development plans. But what happens in this in-betweenness? Various plant and animal species inhabit this place, humans appropriate it, non-material processes surround the present and future of the area, traces point to its past."
This project was developed as part of UDP2-Liminal Cities: Ruins of Capitalism
All images: Amy Cimerman, Frederike Grothues, Jorid Lange, and Rebecca Renz
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