In cooperation with the Goethe Institute, the Department for Culture, World Heritage and Sport of the City of Augsburg, Nick Tobier + Roland Graf’s Red Crossing was selected through an international call looking for placemaking projects for the creative (temporary) transformation of public space in Augsburg, in the overarching context of sustainable cultural urban development. Jurgen writes that Red Crossing was chosen as a dynamic placemaking projects intended to strengthen the connections between people and places in the historic core of the Bavarian city of Augsburg, Germany.
Graf + Tobier traveled to Augsburg where they deployed Red Crossing, with, among others, staff and patients of a childrens’ hospital, parishioners of a social justice church, staff of the City of Augsburg’s Ministry for Culture and Sport, artists and designers from the Augsburg based collective, Utopia Toolbox, and participants of an urban planning conference in a newly designed theater district.