WerkRaum Wiesbaden

City centres are facing profound change due to shifting consumer behaviour. The closure of 200 department stores over the last 25 years has created space for multiple mixed-use and reusable spaces that offer new experiences beyond consumer culture.

The transformation of the Sportscheck department store in Wiesbaden provides answers to this – and focuses on the urgent question of democratic participation. A circular, public, inspiring space is being created which, thanks to its highly frequented location in the Langgasse shopping mile, is aimed at everyone – regardless of origin, education or age – and invites them to participate in cultural life. A diverse spectrum of transformative WDC projects is on display here – accompanied by discussions about them. The dialogue between HSRM students and the urban community makes it an incubator for the development of holistic visions.

Social cohesion is created through participation – this place is its spatialisation.

Project contributors are: Sandra Düsterhus mit POINT. Architektur, Sabine Philipp with Stiftung Stadtmuseum Wiesbaden, Jörg Waldschütz with Hochschule RheinMain, Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden – Kulturamt, sam – Stadtmuseum am Markt, SEG Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft Wiesbaden, Caparol FarbDesignStudio, Wiesbadener Volksbank (Dialog-Partner), ESWE Versorgungen (Impuls-Partner), Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hessen, SV Wehen Wiesbaden, Hochschule Mainz, BDA Hessen, Wiesbaden Stiftung.