Beetmobil - an urban intervention
green instead of gray. plants instead of cars
With our Mini.Intervention, we bring green into the gray, a bed onto the street, flowers on parking lots. From a greened backyard we go with our mobile flower bed bed into the crowded urban jungle.
Inspired by the week of good living in Dresden's Neustadt, which Corona failed, we came up with the idea of Neustadt, we came up with the idea to contribute to a more car-free Neustadt, With the aim of creating car-free streets, which should primarily serve the people we wanted to appropriate parking spaces and create an alternative use for them. A busy street with snack bars and their outdoor areas should temporarily get a new seating, which at the same time brings some green into the street space. The Görlitzer Street is particularly suitable for this - well-attended snack bars, no trees or bike lanes, a narrow footpath. One-way street, streetcar, lots of people but little space.
In preparation, building materials were procured that no longer had a use. Wooden slats and old pallets were nailed down, an unused bicycle was made roadworthy again. made roadworthy. After longer time than taken and some hours at handicraft work, a bicycle handicraft work, a chassis with front and rear planting possibilities was created. The observation on site showed that the Beetmobil was very positively accepted by passers-by. was accepted. Many met the installation with distant interest, a few used the unusual seating area. few used the unusual seating opportunity to linger longer. Besides a the installation is also intended to draw attention to how much space a car actually takes up and how much space is needed. a car actually takes up and how much better this free space could be used. could be used.
With the action we hope to have brought the desire for car-free streets closer to a few isolated people. car-free streets. In such a lively and interactive district as Dresden's Neustadt as Dresden Neustadt, encounters and opportunities for development are hindered are inhibited by parked cars. We hope that our Beetmobil will continue to be used in a variety of and frequent uses for our Beetmobile - it can easily be taken along to create new urban meeting points amidst the avalanches of cars.
Group work with Nina and Jonas
