AAA (Paris) & KEBAP (HH)

This workshop, administered by Park Fiction, combines two very different groups: AAA (Paris) and Kebap (Hamburg) share an interest: in ecology, in the city as a space of production and in shaping spaces as platforms of exchange and communication. Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou from Atelier d'Architecture Autogeree, trained as architects, started the project "Ecobox" in Paris, a common garden in a derelict train station, which, working as a place where a neighbourhood constitutes itself - and organising a space for production (and sharing) of food as well as thoughts and struggles. AAA propose a different economy outside of capitalist structures. The place grew into the building itself and formed a series of public and semi-public spaces. They developed a series of moveable modules, e.g. a cooking module, a media module and the "Bibliomobil". AAA organize PEPRAV, a europewide network, which produced the book "Urban Act" and, with theoretician Anne Querrien, talks, walks and researches on urban-rural relations in the "Rhyzom" network from Istanbul, Belfast, London... Kebap's idea, a rest-wood-power-station in a derelict World War 2 bunker in an inner city park, developed out of the protests against energy giant Vattenfall's plans for a coal-power station with its cooling system running through the same park, the "Moorburg Trasse". The alternative power station poses highly political questions, as it relies on feeding the heat into the district heating grid (Fernwärmenetz) - which is currently not allowed, to secure the energy production monopoly. Kebap's plan, full of expertise and knowledge, combines the ecologic task for renewable energy and heating with ideas for inner city production and culture, creating a space of sharing and hedonism while serving very basic needs.