Apartment Project vs. Park Fiction

APARTMENT PROJECT |  PG 199

Project by Oda Projesi, an artist collaborative in 

Istanbul, consisting of three women artists; Ozge 

Acikkol, Gunes Sacas, and Secil Yersel in the year 2000.

PARTICIPATION

The project was a three bedroom apartment in an urban

part of town designed and equipped for the public to 

interact both artistically and normally together. The 

goal was to, “encourage creative, communal interaction.” 

COLLABORATIVE COORDINATION

They’re an artist collaborative and involve both private

and public parties in the apartment for performing

workshops or to hold exhibitions.

REPRESENTATION

“Where artists, architects, musicians, neighbors, and

children would congregate informally to plan projects,

hold get-togethers, and exist communally both within

and outside of the context of art.”

PARK FICTION AND THE RIGHT TO THE CITY NETWORK HAMBURG  |  PG 200

Project initiated by local residents and artist, Christoph

Schafer, in the year 1994 and currently still successful.

St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany.

PARTICIPATION

The entire community of St. Pauli and Hamburg could be

part of the project. Park Fiction (the name of the project),

was an area (one of the only area’s), in Hamburg where

people could meet to play, hold shows, and relax.

COLLABORATIVE COORDINATION

The project involved many association’s as well as the city

council to keep the public park space from turning

into a housing development. 

POLITICAL IMPACT

The people involved built a mobile “planning container,” 

a container to document questionaiires, pictures, maps,

and thoughts throughout the neighboorhood. This was

to gain culture capital to recieve funds from the city’s 

Art in Public Space program. 

Developers bid on the land to build a high-rise.