A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Performative Bürgerbeteiligung als neue Form kooperativer Freiraumplanung
Civic participation is a central and strategic moment in urban planning processes. Especially for planning public spaces it is regarded vital that the urban dwellers' interests – as future users of the sites – are respected and considered. The article identifies a new type of civic participation that is currently in the making: performative participatory approaches. This particular participatory approach is characterized, firstly, by its use of performative and material practices, hence by its action-oriented approach. Secondly, it is characterized by its very location on the sites of planning grounds within urban public spaces. Participation, hence, is no longer limited to a communicative exchange on and deliberation of future uses of urban spaces, carried out amongst different stakeholders in meeting rooms at local community centers or planning agencies. Rather, participation is executed as an immediate physical influence and shaping of public spaces through tangible on-site interventions led by local citizens or planning experts. Despite the increasing use of this participatory approach, however, the theoretical implications of this new planning phenomenon have rarely been discussed in planning theory. Therefore, in this article, we aim at developing a theoretical understanding of this phenomenon by introducing the term ‘performative participation’. Drawing on performance theory, this perspective allows for a thorough investigation of the enacting qualities of participatory interventions on the stage of urban public spaces. Subsequently, we offer a classification of this new mode of participation deploying recent empirical examples. Finally we discuss the advantages, limitations and possible applications of this participatory approach.
English Title: Performative participation – a new cooperative planning instrument for urban public spaces.
Performative Bürgerbeteiligung als neue Form kooperativer Freiraumplanung
Civic participation is a central and strategic moment in urban planning processes. Especially for planning public spaces it is regarded vital that the urban dwellers' interests – as future users of the sites – are respected and considered. The article identifies a new type of civic participation that is currently in the making: performative participatory approaches. This particular participatory approach is characterized, firstly, by its use of performative and material practices, hence by its action-oriented approach. Secondly, it is characterized by its very location on the sites of planning grounds within urban public spaces. Participation, hence, is no longer limited to a communicative exchange on and deliberation of future uses of urban spaces, carried out amongst different stakeholders in meeting rooms at local community centers or planning agencies. Rather, participation is executed as an immediate physical influence and shaping of public spaces through tangible on-site interventions led by local citizens or planning experts. Despite the increasing use of this participatory approach, however, the theoretical implications of this new planning phenomenon have rarely been discussed in planning theory. Therefore, in this article, we aim at developing a theoretical understanding of this phenomenon by introducing the term ‘performative participation’. Drawing on performance theory, this perspective allows for a thorough investigation of the enacting qualities of participatory interventions on the stage of urban public spaces. Subsequently, we offer a classification of this new mode of participation deploying recent empirical examples. Finally we discuss the advantages, limitations and possible applications of this participatory approach.
English Title: Performative participation – a new cooperative planning instrument for urban public spaces.
Performative Bürgerbeteiligung als neue Form kooperativer Freiraumplanung
Mackrodt, Ulrike (author) / Helbrecht, Ilse (author)
disP - The Planning Review ; 49 ; 14-24
2013-12-01
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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