Golfclub Hernals / Golfclub Favoriten

Interventions in public space / streets; Vienna
With Valentin Fiala; since 2021

Golfclub Hernals / Favoriten are temporary miniature golf courses in public spaces, primary in residential streets - „Wohnstraßen“ - of the 17. district of Vienna (Hernals) and a pedestrian area in the 10. district of Vienna (Favoriten). The Golf courses are developed from the existing structures like curbstone, cracks in the asphalt or the pavement, manhole covers, etc. Thereby the roads are not shut down, but the golf as a playful use of public space coexists together with other common uses of streets. Residential streets / „Wohnstraßen“ are special streets where it is explicitly allowed to play, walk, stay on the driving lane, but only few people know about this, often the streets are used as any other street: a primary parking and driving zone for cars. Golfclub Hernals uses this potential of public space in an unusual, more collective and playful way and invites residents and passers-by to play miniature golf on the streets.