CITY-TUNING

Urban Planning always deals with the change of existing structures. This process we call City-Tuning. We see urban interventions as a temporary situation in the growing or shrinking organism of a city.
Many of our projects deal with the re-use of former, un-public urban sites. These places are worn out and need semantic reloading (sr). Sometimes it is this process of City-Tuning which makes it possible to use these urban sites again.
One example is our project »Yaam-Club«, which transformed an abandoned site of the former eastern-harbour in Berlin into a public club. Our first City-Tuning was a game in the "Urban Issue" gallery in Berlin (1998), with Birgit Schlieps, Peter Arlt and Elke Marhöfer. Constructed terms such as the "hobby cellar colony" were to be implemented by the public according to certain rules in a large model of the city. Another City-Tuning is balcony-tuning, that we carried out during the "Hotel-Neustadt" festival in Germany. In Summer 2003.