URBAN WILDERNESS – Grünkollektiv

Pina Bausch Centre under construction, Bundesallee 260, Wuppertal

Fancy trying your hand at community gardening?

We want to create a vibrant hub for community and socialising – a space for planting, building, dancing, playing, experimenting and exploring. We’d like to work with you to explore how we can bring this space to life with your ideas and enthusiasm. What do public spaces look like where both people and nature thrive?

The Urban Wilderness project offers anyone who is interested the chance to get hands-on with the temporary redesign of the forecourt of the former theatre. The aim is to work together to transform this currently underused space into a lively, green public space, featuring homemade furniture, plants and activities.

About URBAN WILDERNESS

Urban Wilderness is a 15-month pilot project run by the Pina Bausch Centre under construction and Neue Effizienz gemeinnützige GmbH. Constructlab and Atelier le Balto, experts in experimental construction and landscape architecture, develop the project with us. The aim is to transform the outdoor space surrounding the future centre into a climate-resilient and socially engaging place. The project deliberately begins before the actual construction work and focuses on concept development, testing and participation. The German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) is funding the redesign of the outdoor areas around the Pina Bausch Centre under construction with €70,000.

Urban Wilderness is an open participatory experiment. Here, we plant, build, experiment, discard and rethink. It’s not just about greening: it’s about new ways of living together in the city. And about the question: how do we shape our city together? Urban and wild!