Der Planungswettbewerb als punktuelle Kommunikationsplattform in der Stadtentwicklung

We suggest that in research on competition procedures we must consider specific characteristics of processes. In competitions, various levels of communication and technologies of representation are intertwining: images, text, models, and spoken discourse. Furthermore, following Kohoutek (2005), there are no direct bridges between diverse fields of society such as politics, aesthetics, law, economy, science – so communication between those fields must be established by some kinds of couplings; and design competitions constitute such punctual platforms for communication.
The project comperes the instrument of design competitions with instruments from participative planning / civic engagement. Empirically it will review two recent cases in the city of Zurich.