An exploration of urban wastelands and networked transdisciplinary practice

The Wasteland Twinning Network Forum brings together the international project partners of the Wasteland Twinning Network from across Europe, Asia, USA and Australia.

Hosted at the ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin, the Forum will feature presentations, guest speakers, critical debates, Twinning Ceremonies, wasteland interventions and workshops. 

The Forum 2012 Retrospective ►
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Jan van Duppen, NL (Tilburg, NL)

‘The Cuvry Brache as Free Place’: The Diverse Meanings of a Wasteland in Berlin, 2010 This ethnographic study reveals the diversity of activities that take place on the Cuvrybrache wasteland site and recounts the multiple stories of ‘empty’ spaces along …

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Wasteland Twinning Nottingham (Nottingham, UK)

Wasteland Twinning Nottingham – The Island Wasteland Twinning Nottingham engaged in a programme of research, experimentation and public events focused on a wasteland in inner-city Nottingham, locally known as ‘The Island’. With a rich industrial history, the thirteen-acre Island site has …

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Bon Suwung at KUNCI (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Bon Suwung [at] KUNCI Cultural Studies Center Bon Suwung is a forum initiated by KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Indonesia, comprising of artists and researchers who are collaboratively exploring wastelands in Yogyakarta as potential territory for the transformation of the relationships between people and space …

Research Image, Saubin Yap, Kuala Lumper
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Wasteland Twinning Ceremonies

Wasteland Twinning Ceremonies Throughout the forum Wasteland Twinning Ceremonies will take place between Ambassadors and representatives of the wasteland sites in the network.  Partnerships are to be initiated on the grounds of political, social, economic, historical and environmental conflict or …

Twinning ceremony with Kuala Lumpur wasteland, 2012

Lena Obergfell (Sydney, Australia)

Corner of Riley and Albion, Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia The wasteland site on the corner of Riley and Albion is located in the suburb of Surry Hills, south-east of the Central Business District in Sydney. In the early 1800s Surry …

On the banks of Guwahati River
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The Anxious Prop (Objective Dialogues)

Objective Dialogues Objective Dialogues is a three dimensional interface and large-scale template for participants of the forum to come together through the exploration of wasteland objects, submitted by the various cities of the Wasteland Twinning Network.  The objects, in their …

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Sofia Dona, GR (Twinning towns: Leipzig-Detroit)

‘Twinning towns: Leipzig-Detroit’ 2010 Based on the concept of ‘town twinning’ (sister cities), the aim of this project was to visually and conceptually connect two distinct cities, Leipzig and Detroit, that were experiencing similar conditions of abandonment and potentiality, by …

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Games Broadcast (Wasteland Twinning)

Games Broadcast The commentators’ stand installation brings together the audio commentary of The Nottingham Rounders Club and The Fallow Games in Berlin parallel projects which took place on the 30th of June 2012. The Nottingham Rounders Club, The Island, Nottingham, …

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Matthew Gandy, UK

Matthew Gandy, London Matthew Gandy is a London-based geographer and urbanist. He is currently Professor of Geography at University College London (UCL) and was Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory (2005­–2011). His research on environmental history, urban infrastructure and visual culture has involved work in a variety of countries …

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Co-evolution of knowledge and space,Space pioneers, Studio Klaus Overmeyer

Klaus Overmeyer, DE

Klaus Overmeyer is a landscape architect based in Berlin with his studio http://www.studio-uc.de/ The office´s philosophy is deeply rooted in an optimistic attitude towards the contemporary landscape stimulating an ongoing research into the relationship of built and unbuilt environments today. Together with …

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Annette Maechtel, DE

Zwischenraum to Zwischennutzung (from Gap to Temporary Use) The development and introduction of the term Zwischennutzung The term Zwischennutzung emerged in the early 90ties in Berlin-Mitte in order to discuss an artistic and curatorial practice that had specifically begun to use vacant …

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Complizen, DE (Berlin, Germany)

BMX-Labor Berlin Fast and Slow Developments on and Around a Central Urban Void in Berlin Friedrichshain The ‘Wriezener Freiraum Labor’ is an experimental urban development project that was supported by German federal planning authorities. It is centrally located in Berlin …

Landreform, Skulpturenpark, 2009
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BURGHARD, DE (Berlin, Germany)

Bauen Denken, an Intervention in Public Space ‘We encountered a site with a small building, which had been closed since 1990. The place itself has lost its purpose and resists any usage or development. We changed the site, removed the house under our …

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