Punk im Park

Jonathan Korbinian Michael Coen

Student

Jonathan Korbinian Michael Coen

Academic staff

Davide Ferrando

Course

Space Ötzity

Semester

2025/26 WS

The reading tour leads from the University of Bolzano to WaltherPark and through a loophole into the underground car park.

BACKGROUND
Martin Hanni is an editor at Salto and writes regularly about South Tyrol. In several articles, he has addressed WaltherPark and its relationship to Bolzano and its citizens. Those texts reportedly led to his exclusion from the mall’s press opening.

This reading tour is part of the course Spatial Design and Intervention in the CCP Master’s program at the University of Bolzano. The texts are written and read by Martin Hanni, and the music is composed and recorded by Peachnoise, a punk band from the South Tyrol region.

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Jonathan Coen vor der Haltestelle am Universitätsplatz

THE LOOPHOLE
For a fee, it is possible to park a vehicle there while visiting Bolzano or the shopping mall. However, if you leave the underground car park within 10 minutes, you do not have to pay for your stay.

This project uses that rule to bring Hanni’s voice and texts, together with Peachnoise’s music, underground to WaltherPark as a private art event inside a space that is otherwise heavily monitored and inaccessible.

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Excerpt from “Punk im Park” at the GOG

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Excerpt from “Punk im Park” at the GOG

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Excerpt from “Punk im Park” at the GOG

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Excerpt from “Punk im Park” at the GOG

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Excerpt from “Punk im Park” at the GOG

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Tickets from “Punk im Park” at the GOG

For the GOG exhibition, the bus stop, a few tickets, and an editorial were displayed. The book recounts the design process and shows the resulting images and tickets in detail.

An article about the project has been published on Salto.it.

A project made in the course

Space Ötzity

For the first edition of Spatial Design, the students will be invited to investigate and react to the WaltherPark case study. The story of WaltherPark in Bolzano is one of the most emblematic and contested urban transformations in South Tyrol, where questions of design, politics, and identity converged around a single site at the edge of the historic centre. Conceived in the early 2010s by the Austrian developer Signa and designed by David Chipperfield Architects, the project promised a new commercial, residential, and cultural hub on land long marked by infrastructural gaps and post-war buildings. Its path to realization, however, was anything but linear.

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