Las luchas por un espaciola iniciativa «Queremos un parque en Leipzig» (Alemania)

Zusammenfassung

At the end of 2016 two trailer camps, some residents and local associations organized and founded an alliance in Volkmarsdorf (a district of Leipzig). They wanted to give a new use to a private brownfield in their neighborhood located in northeastern of the city. Some years before, in 2010, the local administration approved a plan to convert a considerable part of the brownfield into a green space, more precisely in an urban forest. This was supposed to happen before the end of 2017 as a compensatory measure related to the construction of a tunnel in the city. With the slogan Wir wollen einen Park! (we want a park!), the alliance claims a multifunctional green space, its design and the self-management of the brownfield. Means interviews and focus groups we explore how alliance´s member organize themselves and how do they mobilize the concepts emancipation and self-organization. We found that the brownfield had an emancipatory function, that self-organization is discussed internally but the concept is reconcilable with the design of a multifunctional space.