Die Evita Runge Wanderbank — Potenzielle Parkbankplätze — Lina Determann

In Karlsruhe, it sometimes seems as if some park benches follow their own will. A bench in the fountain, in the river, across the pavement.

These unconventionally placed benches are always the same model:

The Evita model from Runge

The Evita Runge walking bench

"In fact, in many places we deliberately don't fix the bench to the pavement to give users the opportunity to
to arrange the benches as they wish, for example to place them in a more shady or sunny location".
location"
-Gartenbauamt Karlsruhe

There is no official limit to the extent of the walking range.

The Wanderbank is an exploration of the principle of urban coding. Cities function as semiotic systems that can be coded/decoded. Street furniture plays an important but often overlooked role within this system. Objects of public space such as rubbish bins, advertising pillars or park benches are omnipresent but inactive.

In a deliberate intervention in this fixed placement, park benches were rearranged.