Added to this is a flood of information that is difficult to sort out and unstoppable, and unpredictable crises, sometimes of catastrophic proportions. There is a lot of change and a lot going on. And although it is all difficult to keep track of and impossible to predict, we also see this as an opportunity and a new chance in planning. For us, “I don’t know what’s going on but it’s a lot” also means: a lot will happen and it could be a lot; it also stands for everything we love about cities and urban space: simultaneity, polyphony, multiple perspectives and a collective background noise.

It is therefore not (just) a worrying observation, but - in the context of this project - perhaps also a promise. At the very least, however, it is a really serious attempt to breathe new life into a square that is getting on in years, which currently seems rather backward and a bit neglected, but is actually in a prime inner-city location. We are delighted that our main task here was to get as many people as possible involved in the process and to work together to anticipate and formulate a more diverse, more social, more climate-friendly, more beautiful and more interesting future for Untere Karlsstraße. This is the result. Preliminary in the best sense of the word.