The Love Tactic | Die Gefühletaktik: 72 Hour Urban Action

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72 Hour Urban Action is the world’s first real-time architecture festival. It is also a political experiment, a kind of bureaucratic hack aiming to transform the city through grassroots and hands-on urbanism. Founded in 2010 at the Bat Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, 72HUA editions have taken place in Bat Yam, Stuttgart, Terni, Roskilde, Witten, Istanbul, Birżebbuġa, and Jena. This bilingual ARCH+ special edition reflects on past 72HUA projects and explores its central themes. The German-language half also includes a detailed examination of the festival’s most recent iteration in Jena. Meanwhile, the English part of the book expands the discourse on critical spatial practice with thematic contributions by Liza Fior, Fabienne Hoelzel, Elke Krasny, Oli Mould, and Sumayya Vally. The past decade of 72HUA has been witness to citizen movements rising up around the world against cultures of subordination, division, and exploitation. Against this backdrop, this publication also serves as a handbook illuminating concepts and practices of playful, collaborative, and participatory design of public space.

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The Love Tactic [English Part]

Editorial

72 Hour Urban Action, Kerem Halbrecht, Gilly Karjevsky

1–3

Foreword

Jonas Zipf

72 Hours, 10 Years, and No End in Sight

5–17

It happened two years later; two years after 72 Hour Urban Action Lobeda, a temporary project that transformed an entire city district—Lobeda-West—and with it, a part of Jena. It was Friday the 13th, when the city enterprise JenaKultur, and with it the city’s cultural scene, went into emergency mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Essay

72 Hour Urban Action, Gilly Karjevsky, Kerem Halbrecht

The Love Tactic – An Urban Display of Affection

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17–49

TIME

Chapter

Essay

Elke Krasny

Time-Writing – Running Out of Future

53–65

Every morning, millions of people wake up as the sounds of their alarms are going off. The alarm is at once warning and protection. The alarm warns people that their time of sleep is up. The alarm protects people from sleeping in.

PUBLIC

Chapter

Essay

Liza Fior

The Emotional Labor of Imagining the Future

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69–79

FUN

Chapter

Essay

Oli Mould

The Rhetoric of Fun and Urban Spaces of Play – Pitfalls and Potentials

83–97

“Play” is a word that we are all very familiar with, and will no doubt have a good idea about what it entails. But drill a bit deeper into how it is used and applied, particularly within an urban context, and you’ll find a more complicated picture. Because over the last few decades, cities all over the world have begun to embed terms such as “fun” and “play” into more and more institutional and developmental vernaculars—from the traditional forms associated with children’s playgrounds and leisure spaces, to branding multi-million-dollar luxury gated condominiums as spaces of play.

SCALE

Chapter

Essay

Sumayya Vally

Intimate, Incriminated, Implicated Architectures — Some Reflections on Scale

101–111

Reading our cities’ and landscapes’ histories and archaeologies and a sense of interconnectedness is necessary through many different scales and the different lenses and languages these require. From the specks of toxic dust in Johannesburg’s atmosphere that date back to its beginnings and the discovery of gold on a triangle of leftover land between three farms; to the macroscale of designed military control of race groups during apartheid; to the entanglement of the values of gold on the London Stock Exchange.

POLITICS

Chapter

Essay

Fabienne Hoelzel

The Powerful, the Informal, and the Political – Failures of Community-Based (Urban) Design in Lagos

115–125

There are many Makokos in Lagos. The centrally located waterfront community of Makoko is probably the most well known of the many “slums”1 or informal settlements in Lagos, the most populous city in Nigeria and, along with Cairo and Kinshasa, on the African continent. One of the reasons for the widespread existence of informal settlements like Makoko may be rooted in the move of Nigeria’s capital from Lagos to Abuja in 1990.

MISSIONS

Chapter

Die Gefühle- Taktik

Appendix

Abstracts from “Die Gefühle- Taktik“ – Reports from 72HUA in Jena

170–172

Material Flows

Visual Essay

umschichten, Lukasz Lendzinski, Peter Weigand, Alper Kazokoglu

176–181

Die Gefühletaktik [Abschnitt auf Deutsch]

Editorial

72 Hour Urban Action, Kerem Halbrecht, Gilly Karjevsky

182–184

Vorwort

Jonas Zipf

72 Stunden, 10 Jahre und kein Ende

186–196

Zwei Jahre danach. Zwei Jahre nach den 72 Stunden eines temporären Projekts, das ein ganzes Stadtviertel, das Lobeda-West und damit ein Stück Jena nachhaltig verändert hat; ein Jahr nach 72 Stunden Urban Action Lobeda: Es war Freitag, der 13., als die Jenaer Kultur, als der städtische Eigenbetrieb JenaKultur in einen coronabedingten Notbetrieb versetzt werden musste.

Intro

72 Hour Urban Action, Gilly Karjevsky, Kerem Halbrecht