Chemnitz? ChemNetz! This is the newly published city map of self-made urban culture in Chemnitz. Cultural and participatory places, community gardens, places of exchange and sharing are presented and the map invites everyone to discover the 39 city districts, to join in and get involved! Now we can take an even closer look and explore:
Where are the niches, the empty spaces, the gaps in a city? What significance lies in its seemingly unused and overlooked spaces - beyond the dominant logic of market value, yield and land price? In contrast to the purely economic view of urban space, the invisible, immaterial and communal qualities that are all too often ignored are brought into focus instead. With a critical and playful approach, these in-between spaces with their social and cultural potentials are to be made visible - thus opening up new perspectives on the city as a common good. To this end, the 1st CfLC (Club für Lückenangelegenheiten Chemnitz) will be created together with the participants and will go on tour to the city's often overlooked in-between spaces to show what visualisation and change of use without speculation and neoliberal exploitability looks like! Courage for the gaps!
An event organised by Kollektiv Raumstation in cooperation with Bordsteinlobby e.V.
With registration at: info@stadtkarte-chemnetz.de