TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hentschel, Christine
T1  - KippCity
T2  - Multistable figures : on the critical potential of ir/reversible aspect-seeing ; Cultural inquiry ; Vol. 8
N2  - On 28 April 2011, on the Rathausplatz of Neukölln, Christine Hentschel's puzzlement vis-à-vis Neukölln's liberation met the neighbourhood's flickering urbanity, which she seeks to capture in a project called KippCity. KippCity is an experiment in tracing urban change while it happens. If space is the 'event of place', as Doreen Massey holds, the space of KippCity is the transformation of Neukölln. This chapter explores the potentials of multistable figures (Kippbilder) for conceptualizing urban change. This potential, Hentschel argues, lies in the flip-moment itself, in the space-time of urban transformation. In Berlin-Neukölln, a neighbourhood long branded as poor and failing, multiple and partly conflicting flip-scenarios have begun to inspire and haunt the neighbourhood and its self-reflective talk. KippCity Neukölln is thus a flickering figure. But unlike an artefact Kippbild, which flickers between duck and rabbit, for example, KippCity Neukölln does not simply tip into a new pre-fabricated form, but rather wavers between different future scenarios. Neukölln's flickering urbanity is thus nervous, full of uncertainty, frustration and enthusiasm. The article shows how the neighbourhood seeks escape from the dystopia of two dominant flip scenarios of ghettoization and gentrification by digging its claws into its 'Now'.
KW  - Berlin-Neukölln
KW  - Gentrifizierung
KW  - Future concepts
KW  - Gentrification
KW  - Ghettoization
KW  - Multistable figures
KW  - Multistability
KW  - Urban change
KW  - Segregation <Soziologie>
KW  - Wandel
KW  - Stadt
KW  - Inversionsfigur
KW  - Wahrnehmungswechsel
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53052
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-530521
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-08/hentschel_kippcity.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-734-2
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 23
EP  - 40
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -