How does a place become significant? Does it belong to its surroundings, its neighborhood, its city, its visitors? How can we, through design, create a connection with the inner city of Hamburg? What are effective responses to destructive events? How do we establish relationships with what already exists, and how do we challenge conventional interactions with objects and environments? »re:place« is a course at HAW that intervenes on a small scale with utopian examples, encouraging to rethink and reshape the urban landscape.
How does a place become significant? Does it belong to its surroundings, its neighborhood, its city, its visitors? How can we, through design, create a connection with the inner city of Hamburg? What are effective responses to destructive events? How do we establish relationships with what already exists, and how do we challenge conventional interactions with objects and environments? »re:place« is a course at HAW that intervenes on a small scale with utopian examples, encouraging to rethink and reshape the urban landscape.