KippCity

  • 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'.

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Author:Christine Hentschel
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-530521
URL:https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-08/hentschel_kippcity.pdf
DOI:https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-08_02
ISBN:978-3-85132-734-2
ISSN:2627-731X
Parent Title (English):Multistable figures : on the critical potential of ir/reversible aspect-seeing ; Cultural inquiry ; Vol. 8
Publisher:Turia + Kant
Place of publication:Wien
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of Completion:2020
Year of first Publication:2014
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2020/03/09
Tag:Future concepts; Gentrification; Ghettoization; Multistability; Multistable figures; Urban change
GND Keyword:Berlin-Neukölln; Gentrifizierung; Segregation <Soziologie>; Wandel; Stadt; Inversionsfigur; Wahrnehmungswechsel
Page Number:18
First Page:23
Last Page:40
HeBIS-PPN:462156699
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen