Interim Use between Culture and Community: Dynamics of Urban Transformation Processes in CAMPO Winterthur (CAMPO)

CAMPO, a temporary use project in Winterthur, serves as a case study for investigating urban transformation processes. The focus lies on cultural and community-based practices and their interactions with spatial, social and institutional dynamics to examine the conditions and effects of temporary uses.

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Temporary uses have undergone significant shifts since their emergence: whilst initially manifested as a counter-cultural movement advocating an alternative approach to urban planning, they have been actively utilised as urban agents for neighbourhood revitalisation since the 2000s. The ‘CAMPO’ interim use project in Winterthur defies this classification: situated at the intersection of cultural and community work, CAMPO offers a unique framework for systematically examining contemporary dynamics and interactions between spatial, social and cultural processes of transformation. As the foundation’s headquarters, CAMPO exemplifies the challenge of carrying a living cultural heritage into the future. Temporary uses such as workshops, studios and day schools overlap with the existing structure, creating a state of an ‘in-between’ that is both provisional and pioneering.

The research project will be closely linked to teaching at the University of Applied Sciences over two semesters, fostering a synergistic collaboration. Students will have the opportunity, through two seminars and a project work of their own choosing, to actively contribute to the investigation of CAMPO’s transformation processes.