Exploring the contingency of small-scale urban transformation through interstitial practices at the site of a former war bunker (upcoming)

In: Contingencies in urban future-making: Pitfalls, potentialities, and transformative practices, Editors: Joachim Thiel, Monika Grubbauer, Lucas Pohl

The aim of this chapter is to mobilize the conceptual perspective of interstitiality to explore socio-material practices of small-scale urban transformation. Empirical insights on interstitial thinking are drawn upon in order to understand the contingent character of micro-sociological practices that take place at the site of a former bomb shelter from World War II in Hamburg, Germany. The particular example of this bunker reveals specific entanglements of past and future through contemporary transformation projects of buildings remaining from history.

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