Integrating values in post-mining transitions: the experience of Lusatia, Germany

On Monday 15 November 2021 an online presentation hosted by the MLRA, CRC TiME and Federation University, with guest speaker Karsten Feucht from Germany’s IBA-Studyhouse was held at the Morwell Innovation Centre, Morwell.

Karsten Feucht from Germany’s IBA-Studyhouse presented about the importance of identifying and disseminating the values that are important to the community and the region when redesigning rehabilitating mine landscapes and regions. Germany’s IBA (Internationale Bauausstellung or International Construction Exhibition) program focuses on urban redevelopment and landscape transformation, and since 2000 has been centred in the Lusatian brown coal mining region in Germany.

Karsten, is an architect specialising in developing innovative methods for community participation in perceiving and developing value and applying those to spatial design. He discussed how these mediation methods were successfully applied in the post-mining transition for the Lusatia region, incorporating the recovery of the industrial heritage, urban redevelopment and landscape redesign. Karsten has over 20 years of experience in these processes, enabling him to provide a complex picture of multidisciplinary landscape-design methodologies and how to integrate social and community concerns in post-mining landscape transitions.

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