The relationship between public spaces and private interests in the public realm is under  debate on many levels of the German society and in many cities. Especially in Berlin, the most symbolic being the incomplete Mauerpark-project on the former frontline of the cold-war era.

More than 20 years after reunification the eastern half is a huge success as an open space for representation and informal event-space resulting in a distressed park, but a unique harmony of differences. The western half, still a brown-field populated each Sunday by Berlin’s hippest flea-market, is a highly contested space, where traditional planning methods and design-solution failed to deliver solutions that would win approval of any interest-group.

The challenge was to pursue an interrogation of possible futures integrating beyond the assumed dialectic of public and private spaces.