Natur Park Schöneberger Südgelände and Berlin’s Urban Nature
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2022
edited by Patrizia Boschiero, Thilo Folkerts, Luigi Latini
cover price 20 euros
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche-Antiga
Treviso 2022
244 pages
51 illustrations in colour and 33 black and white
ISBN 978-88-8435-297-2
Italian edition: ISBN 978-88-8435-296-5
The 32nd International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens is dedicated to Natur Park Schöneberger Südgelände and to ‘Berlin’s urban nature’.
Located just south of the S-Bahn ring, the park is the result of the abandonment of a vast railyard and its radical reclaiming by nature: a unique condition recognised for its ecological and social value and informed by the concurrent interaction of residents’ voices, landscape culture, art and ecology.
Open to the public since 1999, Natur Park Südgelände has been an experimental case study and catalyst, inseparably linked to Berlin’s history and to the existence of a ‘school of urban ecology,’ which has stimulated and guided both the design perspective and the widespread awareness of the landscape that have given rise to an idea of ‘urban nature’ in this city.
Contents
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens
Statement of the Carlo Scarpa Prize, in English, German and Italian, edited by the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Thilo Folkerts, Berlin, the emergence of an urban nature
Natur Park Südgelände
Ingo Kowarik, Südgelände, Berlin: transforming a wild urban wasteland to a new kind of nature park
Natur Park Südgelände: project, maintenance, development, Rita Suhrhoff in conversation with Thilo Folkerts
Natur Park Südgelände: the role of the art, Klaus Duschat in conversation with Thilo Folkerts
Chronology of the Natur Park Schöneberger Südgelände 1838-2025: from shunting yard to nature park
Christoph Schmidt, A new city experience: the key role of Natur Park Südgelände for the urban paradigm shift in Berlin
Berlin
Lorenza Manfredi, Jannis Schiefer, Laura Veronese, Through Berlin: urban natures
Stefanie Hennecke, Berlin, a brief history of its parks
Almut Jirku, Like pearls on a string: the Berlin open spaces system and the Park am Gleisdreieck
Ingo Kowarik, The Berlin School of Urban Ecology and the emergence of wasteland ecology
Sandra Jasper, Berlin, a ruderal urbanism
Grün Berlin: sustainable routes for developing public space
Further reflections. On urban nature
Berlin and the development of contemporary landscape culture, Gabriele G. Kiefer in conversation with Thilo Folkerts
Norbert Kühn, Urban spontaneous vegetation as a tool for climate adaptation
Heinz W. Hallmann and Ursula Wilms, The design of the Topographie des Terrors site
Leonard Grosch, Berlin’s Park am Gleisdreieck or the art of designing lively places
Anna Lambertini, Hybrid, cosmopolitan, inventive. Nature of urban wildness
Juan Manuel Palerm, The wild nature of the wastelands. On Berlin, ‘urban nature,’ architecture, art and the void as project material. The case of Natur Park Schöneberger Südgelände
Carlo Scarpa Prize 1990-2022
The activities of the Carlo Scarpa Prize for the place
The authors
Illustration references
