The empty lot, where for years, the «Stadt der Kinder» (City of Children)—an alternative adventure playground on Alte Schönhauser Strasse in Berlin—had its home, was not just an empty space like so many others. It was a place for creative, temporary use; a grand experiment with anonymous architecture, architecture without architects. This construction site did not adhere to any sort of plan, but rather to an organic, anarchic impulse to play and create.
Since 1998, Jean-Paul Deridder captured the transformations of this site in his photographs.
2003
Inge Henneman, «Stadt der Kinder», close up, FotoMuseum magazine,
obsc./ fmm28, jaargang 8, november 2003
2001
Michael Hirsch: «documents poétiques,quelques remarques spéculatives ŕ partir des photographies de jean-paul deridder», A-Prior N-3/4 automne-hiver 2000-2001
Pascale Viscardy: «Stadt der Kinder, (re)construction critique?», ,L’Art Męme #12, 2001
François Thiry: «Stadt der Kinder, une ville sans architecte...», A+ n°173, dec. 2001
2000
Luc Lambrecht: «De wereld is een goedlopend handelsmerk», de Morgen,29/07/2000
