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Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-11T13:50:40Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Process Biography Scheme */

''by Ulrike''

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

[[Image:Timeline.png|none|frame|Process biography]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. They wanted to improve the neighbourhood and social situation. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:BG_Vorher.jpg|The green space before building the gardens
Image:BG_VE.jpg|Discussing the three preliminary sketches
Image:BG_Entwurf.jpeg|The final draft
Image:BG_Bau.jpg|Building the gardens
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|Colourful Gardens in Autumn 2009
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-11T13:13:57Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Who initiated the project and why? */

''by Ulrike''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Timeline.png|none|frame|Process biography]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. They wanted to improve the neighbourhood and social situation. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:BG_Vorher.jpg|The green space before building the gardens
Image:BG_VE.jpg|Discussing the three preliminary sketches
Image:BG_Entwurf.jpeg|The final draft
Image:BG_Bau.jpg|Building the gardens
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|Colourful Gardens in Autumn 2009
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 1]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T21:34:30Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Process Biography Scheme */

''by Ulrike''

back to [http://draco.hfwu.de/~wikienfk5/index.php/Project_Biographies_Seminar_Public_Participation_09 Project Biography List]

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Timeline.png|none|frame|Process biography]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:BG_Vorher.jpg|The green space before building the gardens
Image:BG_VE.jpg|Discussing the three preliminary sketches
Image:BG_Entwurf.jpeg|The final draft
Image:BG_Bau.jpg|Building the gardens
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|Colourful Gardens in Autumn 2009
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Project Biography]]
[[Category:Project Biography Working Group]]
[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 1]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

File:Timeline.png

2010-01-10T21:33:48Z

Ulrike.hail:

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T12:26:41Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:BG_Vorher.jpg|The green space before building the gardens
Image:BG_VE.jpg|Discussing the three preliminary sketches
Image:BG_Entwurf.jpeg|The final draft
Image:BG_Bau.jpg|Building the gardens
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|Colourful Gardens in Autumn 2009
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Project Biography Working Group]]
[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 1]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

File:BG Vorher.jpg

2010-01-10T12:25:46Z

Ulrike.hail:

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T12:21:53Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

back to [http://draco.hfwu.de/~wikienfk5/index.php/Project_Biographies_Seminar_Public_Participation_09 Project Biography List]

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:BG_VE.jpg|Discussing the three preliminary sketches
Image:BG_Entwurf.jpeg|The final draft
Image:BG_Bau.jpg|Building the gardens
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|Colourful Gardens in Autumn 2009
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Project Biography Working Group]]
[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 1]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T12:21:20Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:BG_VE.jpg|Discussing the three preliminary sketches
Image:BG_Entwurf.jpeg|The final draft
Image:BG_Bau.jpg|Building the gardens
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|Colourful Gardens in Autumn 2009
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T12:20:50Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:BG_VE.jpg|Discussing the three preliminary sketches
Image:BG_Entwurf.jpg|The final draft
Image:BG_Bau.jpg|Building the gardens
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|Colourful Gardens in Autumn 2009
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 1]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

File:BG Entwurf.jpeg

2010-01-10T12:19:48Z

Ulrike.hail:

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T12:18:12Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:BG_VE.jpg|Discussing the three preliminary sketches
Image:BG_Bau.jpg|Building the gardens
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|Colourful Gardens in Autumn 2009
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 1]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

File:BG VE.jpg

2010-01-10T12:17:15Z

Ulrike.hail:

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T12:11:24Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:BG_Bau.jpg|Building the gardens
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|Colourful Gardens in Autumn 2009
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 1]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T12:09:08Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:BG_Bau.jpg|Building the gardens
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|Colourful Gardens in Autum 2009
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Project Biography Working Group]]
[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 1]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T12:08:00Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:BG_Bau.jpg|Building the gardens
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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File:BG Bau.jpg

2010-01-10T12:07:28Z

Ulrike.hail:

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T12:05:58Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:BG_Kind.jpg|Young gardener at work
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 1]]
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File:BG Kind.jpg

2010-01-10T12:05:30Z

Ulrike.hail:

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T12:03:42Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|A chair amidst the Salad - one of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 1]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T12:02:55Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|One of the garden parcells
Image:BG_Kinder.jpg|The waterpump turned out to be the favorite playground equipment
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
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[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

File:BG Kinder.jpg

2010-01-10T12:01:12Z

Ulrike.hail:

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T11:57:01Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Image Gallery */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:BG_Stuhl.jpg|One of the garden parcells
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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[[Category:Project Biography Working Group]]
[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Esslingen - Pliensauvorstadt]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 1]]
[[Category:Participation Tool 2]]

File:BG Stuhl.jpg

2010-01-10T11:56:14Z

Ulrike.hail:

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T11:50:29Z

Ulrike.hail:

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''City of Esslingen am Neckar''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

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=== References ===

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Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T11:49:53Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Who made the major decisions and when? */

''by Ulrike''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
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=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===
The participants made most of the decisions. Major decisions were also made by the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen.

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=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T11:47:41Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Which stakeholders have been involved? */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===
The citizens and future users of the gardens were involved.

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===

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=== Image Gallery ===

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=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T11:46:25Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Which participation tools have been applied? */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process. At serval "action days" the future gardeners helped to build the gardens together with other volunteers.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===

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=== Image Gallery ===

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Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
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=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T11:42:38Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Which participation tools have been applied? */

''by Ulrike''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===
In several moderated planning workshops the participants were involved in the planning process.

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===

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=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T11:37:57Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Who initiated the project and why? */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together people with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. The residents living close to the gardening site should have the opportunity to cultivate fruit, vegetables and flowers on their own parcells.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===

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=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T11:27:23Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Rationale: Why is this case interesting? */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells the community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together. By this contacts between persons of different social and cultural origins are enabled and intensified. This intercultural aspect has positive effects to both the individual contacts and the whole neighbourhood.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together pepople with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===

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=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T11:18:32Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Rationale: Why is this case interesting? */

''by Ulrike''

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"|''Bunte Gärten (Colourful Gardens)''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Ulrike Hail''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''May 2009''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:BG_Herbst.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ===
The City of Esslingen converted a grasland site into community gardens for people of all ages, various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds. After the planning of the project together with the to-be gardeners, there are now 18 families and individuals who changed the green space into Colourful Gardens with flowers, fruit trees and space to play for the children.

The project brought advantages to all parties involved. The city - that had costs for the maintenance of the site - saves money, as the current users take care of the area. Most of the hobby gardeners live in multi-storey flats, some even without a balcony. The Colourful Gardes gives them the opportunity to have a little garden which is especially of big value for families with little kids. Besides the private parcells a community space forms the centre of the garden complex. Here people have the opportunity to meet and the kids can play together.

=== Author's personal background ===
Diploma in Landscape Architecture in 2006 at Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences. Diploma Thesis: planning a playground with the participation of children. After that working in a Landscape Architecture Office for one year. Since March 2007 working at Nürtingen University as scientific coworker and self-employed.

=== Process Biography Scheme ===

''Please add the scheme of your project's process biography here, below you see an example. Please replace this file with your own.''

[[Image:Example_dasilva_processbio.jpg|none|frame|Process biography example]]

=== Who initiated the project and why? ===
The project was initiated by the city council of Essingen am Neckar. This city is situated in southern Germany near Stuttgart, with a population of 92 000 people.

The Colourful Gardens are situated in the urban district Pliensauvorstadt. Both the parks and gardens department and the town planning service of Esslingen have initiated and carried out various activities to improve the quality of life in this quarter. One of the many projects was the construction of intercultural gardens. The intention was to bring together pepople with various cultural, ethnical and religious backgrounds.

=== When was public participation most intensive? ===
As public participation was an essential part of the planning process, the people were involved right from the start through to the construction. The participation and the professional planning alternated as claryfied in the process biography scheme above.

First the residents of the district were invited to an information evening, where they were briefed about the project. Concurrently they could express their first ideas and expectations. Three preliminaty designs were created from this ideas. They were presented at the following meeting and the participants could choose their favorite design. This was refined to a draft that was again discussed and improved by the future users of the Colourful Gardens.

After the construction plans were drawn the gardens were built of a landscape gardener in cooperation with the participants and various other volunteers.

=== Which participation tools have been applied? ===

==== On which level of participation? ====

=== Which stakeholders have been involved? ===

=== Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? ===
There was an information evening at the beginning of the planning process. During the construction works there were several days were the participants as well as other volunteer helpers could actively support the formation of the Colouful Gardens. Finally the project was inaugurated with an official opening ceremony.

=== Who made the major decisions and when? ===

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
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</gallery>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== References ===

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/prop2z.htm

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Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-10T10:48:46Z

Ulrike.hail:

File:BG Herbst.jpg

2010-01-10T10:47:01Z

Ulrike.hail: Die Bunten Gärten in Esslingen im Herbst 2009.

Die Bunten Gärten in Esslingen im Herbst 2009.

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2010-01-06T11:39:13Z

Ulrike.hail: /* References */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T16:26:59Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Author's personal background */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T16:25:58Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T16:25:22Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Have there been any festivities in order to involve the public? */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T16:18:15Z

Ulrike.hail: /* When was public participation most intensive? */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T16:17:53Z

Ulrike.hail: /* When was public participation most intensive? */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T16:11:31Z

Ulrike.hail:

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T16:09:09Z

Ulrike.hail: /* When was public participation most intensive? */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T16:04:16Z

Ulrike.hail: /* When was public participation most intensive? */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T15:59:18Z

Ulrike.hail: /* When was public participation most intensive? */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T15:53:04Z

Ulrike.hail: /* When was public participation most intensive? */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T15:42:56Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Who initiated the project and why? */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T15:21:46Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Who initiated the project and why? */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T15:13:19Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Author's personal background */

Bunte GÃ¤rten (Colourful Gardens) Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt, Germany

2009-12-29T14:44:30Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Author's personal background */

Project Biographies Seminar Public Participation 09

2009-12-08T10:40:47Z

Ulrike.hail:

Dear students, please add your name and the title of your project biography to this list. You will then be given a template for completing your documentation.

* [[Project Biography Template]]

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'''List of Participants' Themes:'''
* Gleisdreieck (Railway Triangle) Berlin, Christian
* Sydney Harbor's new landscapes (Australia),Ishrat Mahbub
* Raghadan forest (Saudi Arabia) Fahad
* Hirschgarten München, Asma
* Interkultureller Generationpark - Dessau, Susanne

*Aussichtsplattform am Remsknie - Gemeinde Winterbach (Germany), Issia Habou
* Bunte Gärten - Esslingen-Pliensauvorstadt (Germany), Ulrike Hail

* etc...

Case Study List Public Participation

2009-11-08T10:18:19Z

Ulrike.hail: /* Waterscape Planning Processes */

=== People and Open Space ===

* '''[http://moodle.hfwu.de/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=588 KDAG Kabelwerk Wien - Cable Factory Vienna]''' - An Urbanistic Development Process, ''a case study report developed by DI Eva Schwab, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna''
** Daniel, Vesna, Benjamin, Susanne, Barbara

* '''[http://moodle.hfwu.de/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=589 Teens_Open_Space]''' participatory open space planning with teenagers ''a case study report developed by DI Eva Schwab, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna'', additional information on this case study: [http://moodle.hfwu.de/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=590 Youth Behaviour and Young People’s Demands for Open Space: teens_open_space] DI Eva Schwab and DI Dr. Karin Standler
** Nisreen, Asma and Virpi

* '''[http://www.glslcities.org/Toronto%20waterfront.pdf Toronto Waterfront]''' ''Developing a vision for the parks and open space system, a report on the public consultation process''
** Archana and Fahad and Issia

=== Urban Planning Processes ===

* '''[http://www.masterplan-koeln.de/termine.html Masterplan Köln Innenstadt]''' (German!)
** Sven, Kirsten, Haris

=== Regional Planning Processes ===

*'''Regional park Rhein-Main (GERMAN)''' ''link + translation will follow soon...''

*'''[http://moodle.hfwu.de/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=true&id=614 Ein Rettungsnetz für die Wildkatze] - A corridor network for the wild cat (GERMAN)''' ''translation will follow soon...''
** Markus

=== Waterscape Planning Processes ===

*'''[http://moodle.hfwu.de/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=true&id=613 Baunarenaturierung] - Rehabilitation of the Bauna River (GERMAN)''' ''translation will follow soon...''
** Nils

*''' [http://waterwiki.net/index.php/Communication_and_Public_Participation_Case_Study_for_the_Caspian_Sea Communication and Public Participation for the Caspian Sea] '''

*''' [http://waterwiki.net/index.php/TEST_-_Transfer_of_Environmentally_Sound_Technology_in_the_Danube_River_Basin TEST - Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technology in the Danube River Basin] '''
** Ulrike

*''' [http://waterwiki.net/index.php/Enhancing_Access_to_Information_and_Public_Participation_in_Environmental_Decision-making Enhancing Access to Information and Public Participation in Environmental Decision-making] '''
** Emel Baylan, Department of L.A.-Ankara University, Turkey

*''' [http://waterwiki.net/index.php/IW:LEARN:_Facilitating_Knowledge_Sharing_Among_GEF_International_Waters_Project_Portfolio_and_their_Partners IW:LEARN: Facilitating Knowledge Sharing Among GEF International Waters Project Portfolio and their Partners] '''

*''' [http://waterwiki.net/index.php/%E2%80%98Value_Base_Assessment_procedure%E2%80%99_and_the_use_of_Multi_Criteria_Analysis_%28MCA%29_in_relation_to_transboundary_water_management ‘Value Base Assessment procedure’ and the use of Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA) in relation to transboundary water management] '''
** Wendy-Laura