10 takes is the autumn semester's concluding course. It focuses on the design of urban public space and aims to build on the various material and knowledge gathered throughout the semester.
Shifts in economy and industry have come to liberate attractive post-industrial areas along waterfront areas throughout Norway and open them up towards new development. In Bergen, this new development strategy appears almost random. Instead of an overall vision for the entire waterfront (as in Oslo), the shoreline is developing in bits and pieces, with singular projects and small master plans slowly but surely surfacing. The lack of an overall master plan opens up for new challenges, but also opportunities. As the waterfront develops in an acupunctural way, it becomes critical to ensure public spaces of high quality both in areas that have to a large extent been privatized, or in the areas that are in transition and remain open for new thinking.
By selecting 10 different sites along the Bergen waterfront we will challenge and explore the city’s relationship with the water and explore what a good public space can be. Some of the sites will already have development; some are in transition while others are dormant. Some interventions/ projects will be in the xs scale while others can be of a larger scale and strategy. Together the 10 projects will form a collective statement / catalogue about what the waterfront in Bergen could be and the key role public space can play in its manifestation.
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the city in the city - berlin: a green archipelago
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