Cultural City Development in Køge Southern Harbour
Development of cultural plan / Strategy for life
Film about already existing conditions in Southern Harbour
The Køge City Council wishes for culture to work as a driving force behind the city development of Southern Harbour and the Station Area, an industrial harbour area. I participated in the development of a long-term cultural plan, which became a strategy for life, forming one of the platforms for development of a master plan.
Included is the following:
Life before the City
Art, culture and sports shall on a short term contribute to Southern Harbour and the Station Area becoming lively and exciting new neighbourhoods of Køge. Under the headline Life before the City, the cultural plan contributes ideas and strategies for how the areas are rapidly transforming into lively and attractive areas for the citizens, new inhabitants, and coming investors.
Building the Good City
Art, culture and sports will also on a longer term contribute to ensuring the experience, the challenge and the evolution in the new neighbourhoods. Therefore a focus is put on building the good city in cooperation with the competences which may contribute to creating integrated – and willingly surprising and alternative – solutions for culture in the wider sense.
Facility for Culture
Køge will have a new cultural house on Southern Harbour. A new Køge Cine and the children’s cultural project The 7th Heaven. And finally measures will be taken so that current cultural players on Southern Harbour – Køge Rowing Club, Køge Canoe and Kayak Club, the Valkyrie and the Brewerie – also become part of the future Southern Harbour.
Slowness
We have 20 years to create the final Southern Harbour and Station Area. This gives the opportunity for slow planning to ensure that the new neighbourhood is planned in extension of citizens’ and inhabitants’ use of the city. One of the principal qualities of Køge’s existing town centre is that the city does indeed express the daily use of citizens across many generations. Therefore we encourage many experiments, creative endavours, new ideas, oldies and traditional initiatives in new surroundings. The areas offer themselves up simply as free spaces where within physical boundaries it is possible to test the sustainability of a given idea or activity.
I also contributed with a film, which via both aesthetic representation of fantastic elements in the existing harbour and through interviews with current and future users of the area had the locals enrolled into the plan.
