Essay: VOID VERSUS TERRITORY. A Performative Paradigm for Berlin

VOID VERSUS TERRITORY
A Performative Paradigm for Berlin

Christopher Dell and Stefano Rabolli Pensera

kleiner Ausschnitt aus dem Essay:

< In Berlin the historical traces materialized in the form of gigantic empty spaces. How can we turn the voids into new territories? How to dwell the voids not in the sense of “occupying” them but in the sense of “making sense” of them? Which is the spatial strategy to domesticate these spaces that have lost any apparent urban dimension? Refusing simultaneously both the classical rules of filling the voids with an “urban content” and the romantic attitude of leaving the voids as ruins, the Unit is focusing on the notation as a tool for non-representational design. >

mit Stefano Rabolli Pensera, “VOID VERSUS TERRITORY. A Performative Paradigm for Berlin”, in: Kneer/Müller (Hg.), AA Berlin Laboratory, Bedford Press, London.