lala.ruhr festival: 2050 – transformative straßen
27. February 2021
research
In the seminar on urban planning it is the year 2050, the ongoing climate crisis has prompted politicians to rapidly restrict automobile traffic. Instead, alternative mobility concepts are being promoted, thereby reducing the traffic load on Germany’s roads to a minimum.
But now there is a new challenge: How should the space gained be dealt with? Can car-friendly cities be transformed without any further? Can we soon use streets as community parks – or only unattractive residual spaces here?
This question arose in the workshop “2050 – Transformative Roads” and proposed solutions were worked out together. With its dense road network, the Ruhr area is best suited as a research field. In addition, it has seen not inconsiderable changes in the past; from the meadow landscape to large-scale industry, from large-scale industry to the metropolis – and nuns from the metropolis to the car-free urban landscape.
The seminar can be read on the following website.