Fluidity

Description

The RIA is a self-organized neighborhood center in Hamburg's Wilhelmsburg district. The neutral, large, and improvised space requires few amenities for the diverse uses of the space. Over the course of several workshops we established the needs, wishes, and utopias of the user group. During this collaboration, it became clear that there is not only a lack of concept for a suitable space, but also a lack of joint knowledge production in which the interests of the different user groups can meet to embody a common feminist vision. Following this initial situation, a fluid space concept emerged at the RIA. The design is based on the concept of fluidity from queer feminist theory. It determined the spatial design on the basis of a movable spatial structure that embodies the diversity of the feminist movement and the neighborhood and distances itself from entrenched dogmas and binary structures.