Knowledge in project and process orientated urban planning: IBA Basel a showcase for planning

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Martina Löw
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: from 2019 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 427138525

• Final Report Year: 2024

Final Report Abstract

The project studied how new knowledge is identified and legitimized in cross-border planning processes, in particular using the example of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Basel 2020. It examined the role of knowledge in planning and how it is created and recognized through communication and collaboration. The project identified historical and cultural factors as well as political structures of authority that affect how planning takes place. The analysis focused on how different actors interact and exchange knowledge as well as the role of documents and visualizations in legitimizing knowledge. We show how the border region is a complex planning environment in which different interests and dynamics converge. The results demonstrate that the construction of knowledge in planning is strongly influenced by social, political and cultural factors and that communication and cooperation between stakeholders are crucial for the success of cross-border planning projects.

Publications

• Raumgestalt(en) der Internationalen Bauausstellung Basel 2020 -Working Paper No. 14.
  Leuenberger, Theresia, Wetzels, Michael & Haller, Annik
  
• Comparison, Refiguration, and Multiple Spatialities. In: Forum Social Research. Vol. 22, No. 3, 2021, S. 1-17.
  Knoblauch, Hubert & Löw, Martina
  
• IBA KIT. Ein roter Container als Stadtentwicklungs-Tool und Gemeinschaftsstifter. In: pnd 2022(2)
  Dahms, Nicole-Simone & Sommer, Vivien
  
• Die Refiguration von (städtischen) Grenzräumen. Zur diskursiven Konstruktion eines trinationalen Raums am Beispiel des IBA-Projektes 3Land. Stadt. Raum. Institution, 245-262. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
  Sommer, Vivien & Wetzels, Michael
  
• Finissagen – Die hybride Eventisierung einer Internationalen Bauausstellung am Beispiel der IBA Basel. Wissen, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft, 391-410. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
  Wetzels, Michael & Sommer, Vivien
  
• Kulturpolitische Grenzraumskalierung. Planungsprozesse der Projekte IBA KIT und 3LAND im trinationalen Stadtraum Basel. Politologische Aufklärung – konstruktivistische Perspektiven, 199-219. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
  Wetzels, Michael & Sommer, Vivien
  
• Preface. Quaderni di Sociologia, 92-93 - LXVII, 5-8.
  Fassari, Letteria G.; Löw, Martina; Pompili, Gioia & Spanò, Emanuela