Space project Hannover

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View through the entrance gate onto the grounds of the Hanover space project, 2015

The Hannover square project is a model and research project for experimental urban development in Hannover that was started in 2013 and is funded by the federal government . It turns out to be a in it yourself Do process created container village on an industrial wasteland in the district Linden is cultural in which young people operate social and commercial use projects.

concept

The Hanover space project is one of eight Germany-wide experimental housing and urban development projects in the research field “Jugend.Stadt.Labor”, which is financially supported by the Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research . In the almost four-year phase of the open-ended process, a total of around 120,000 euros are available. The grants are linked to self-organization, sustainability and reference to urban development in the project implementation.

During the conception and development phase in 2013 and 2014, a core group of young people was formed who set up a base station. The implementation phase of the research project will take place in 2015 and 2016. Whether the project will continue thereafter is open-ended and also depends on the Metro Group as the property owner. At the end of 2015, the city of Hanover announced that it would seek the right of first refusal for the site in order to secure the project. The project is intended to provide new insights into urban redevelopment and serves to clarify various research questions from "Jugend.Stadt.Labor", for example how young people network as spatial developers , which projects they develop and which partnerships they enter into on site. With the open structure of the project, interested citizens are also able to participate in the cultural and social offers of the project.

description

Containers on the premises
Base station at the summer festival 2015

The location of the Hanover space project is a fallow land previously used as a parking lot with the dimensions of around 30 × 100 meters on an arterial road in the Linden-Mitte district . It is located in the Lindener Hafen industrial park between the Westschnellweg and the port facilities at the end of the Hanover-Linden branch canal . The site is owned and leased by the Metro Group . The starting point for the project was a skate park built by skaters themselves on a neighboring wasteland , from which the idea of ​​a container village developed. After the project application was submitted in September 2013 and the approval, the project began in 2014 with the creation of a base station in the form of a large container, the roof of which was converted into a terrace and which functions as a meeting point and viewing point. Since then, the container village, which does not allow residential use, is under construction with the gradual settlement of uses. Currently (2015) it comprises around 20 used containers , some of which are stacked on top of each other. They are often individually redesigned and provided with doors and windows. People between the ages of 16 and 35, mainly design students, artists and musicians, are involved in the implementation of the project.

The containers are used by local groups and individuals for cultural and leisure activities as well as experimentally. The project also allows for user-supported commercial developments by creative young people, for example as a garage company . Usage projects include a sewing studio, a café, a facility for audio-visual computer art, a wood workshop and a tattoo studio . Occasional music and theater performances take place on an event stage.

Web links

Commons : Platzprojekt Hannover  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constantin Alexander: A container village for the future of the city ( memento from July 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at NDR from October 18, 2014
  2. ↑ Mario Moers: City secures the future of the space project in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from December 25, 2015
  3. ^ Rüdiger Meise: Federal government promotes container village in Linden in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 1, 2014
  4. ↑ Info-Inferno and opening thunderstorm at: linden-entdecke.de from October 12, 2014

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 4 "  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 49"  E