"Post-Corona Downtown Frankfurt"
The future of downtown is the focus of the "Making Frankfurt" day of action, which will take place on Saturday, 18. September, at various locations in the city centre. The focus will be on questions such as: How have our cities changed with the impact of the pandemic? What challenges has Corona revealed and what do we learn from it for the future?
Between Rathenauplatz and Goetheplatz, Hauptwache, the former sports arena, Friedrich-Stoltze-Platz and Töngesgasse, a multitude of yellow squares - four-by-four-meter action fields - invite visitors to experience and interact. At 2 p.m., Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann will open the urban laboratory on Rathenauplatz. Immediately afterwards, the department heads Stefanie Wüst (Economics, Law and Reforms), Eileen O'Sullivan (Digitalisation, Citizen Service and Participation), Stefan Majer (Mobility and Health) and Mike Josef (Planning, Housing and Sport) will enter into a dialogue with Oliver Weigel (Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs), which will be supplemented by statements from students of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.
Further impulses from representatives of various institutions, associations, societies and groups, such as the Urban Planning Advisory Council, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, art and culture professionals, owners, tenants and others will alternate with voices from the population. Because everyone is asked and cordially invited to participate, to speak for themselves and to represent opinions in the verbal "relay race" at the microphone, to paint, draw and write at long tables, to become active together with athletes, artists, musicians and others, to exchange ideas, to collect ideas and to give impulses, how the future of our city center can look like.
The Making Frankfurt initiative creates a cohesive space for action in which, in addition to actors from politics, administration and business, it is primarily people from the art and culture scene as well as active city makers who show what is conceivable, feasible and therefore possible.
