„Stadt und Migration“
Rudi Frings
Sebastian Hauser
Bernd Kniess
Leonhard Lagos Kalhoff
The project of mapping the urban Rhein/Ruhr area by
Bernd Kniess (architect and urban planner, Cologne),
Sebastian Hauser (architect, Cologne), Leonhard Lagos
Kalhoff (urbanologist, Heiligenhaus/Hamburg) and Rudi
Frings (video artist, Cologne) presumes that cities without
migration are not imaginable. Cities, and this urban
area with its estimated 11 million inhabitants in particular,
are characterized by a changing population structure.
They are networks of manifold, even contrary social
claims. Kniess/Hauser/Lagos/Frings, which have been
jointly realizing projects on cities and architecture since
1999, have examined which places are used and appropriated
in which way, and how this usage has a retroactive
effect on the development of the entire city. This research
is the basis for the graphically mapped networks and
movements of the cities. They present spatial and nonspatial
centres of migrant life and focus on concrete, subjective
situations of organizing the migrants’ everyday life.
The team’s attention was drawn to these places, notions
and situations in their own specialized work as well as in
specific research with migrants. This cartography, of
migrant usage and the change of usage of urban space
sketches an approach to the city that may be a model for
urban capacities to act in a global context.
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