Geplante Erinnerung. Vom Raumwissen zum Erinnerungsort in der kooperativen Stadtplanung

Abstract

The way societies remember historically significant events and periods is usually tied to spaces. Places of remembrance in particular contribute to the materialisation of spatial knowledge and to the spatialisation of cultures of remembrance. However, this article focuses less on the use, but rather on the communicative (re)construction of places of remembrance as a result of participatory urban planning. We follow the the-sis that the discursive production of a historical narrative of place is of particular importance because it objectifies spatial knowledge in a communicative and meaningful way. Using the example of the public urban planning process of the so-called Dragonerareal in Berlin-Kreuzberg, we examine how historical knowledge is established and how this knowledge is made socially meaningful for the future-oriented planning of a place of remembrance and learning. On the basis of reports and digital documentations of the planning process, we reconstruct a) how a place-specific narrative is communicatively established by the actors b) the relevance of social events for the legitimisation of the narrative c) and the significance of affective accessibility to the place of memory.