ZWZ DIY, Zürich – Switzerland
We, a team of experienced and inexperienced DIY skatepark builders, craft- as noncraftpersons, skaters and non-skaters, have designed and built a concrete element in a participatory process
We, a team of experienced and inexperienced DIY skatepark builders, craft- as noncraftpersons, skaters and non-skaters, have designed and built a concrete element in a participatory process
For about eight years, a couple of friends and I have been going on a skate trip for about a week around Easter time.
The bowls have been there since last year and allready saw some good shredding, but if you get the right people together at one day, aka having the first contest things get …different.
The project was launched in 2017 and most of what was accomplished there we learned on the spot. Beneft concerts have brought us donations, stone
Music room, screenprint, salon, childrenchaosroom, workshop, atelier, basementclub, darkroom, several meeting rooms, gallery, concert room, sportsroom, playroom & jungle toilet inside the building who became known as “Alte VHS”.
Against that covid bullshit Rozkurwiel Crew packed the van and hit the road once more, for the 12th time in a row.
This year we discovered a tight and steep ditch close to the swimming spot. Some friends and bmx riders already cleaned a little part of the ditch and filled some cracks, but it was still barely possible to ride with a board…
The town we’re talking about is Lindau (Bodensee) at the Lake of Constance. Located in the deepest south of Germany, next to Austria and Switzerland and at the foot of the Alps.
After a nearly secret session in 2020 because of COVID lockdown and a police show up, we did it again in 2021 as the same non-official procedure.
The landlord didn’t open the place for us on purpose, we we’re just an unpleasant side product that developed without him really recognizing. Now he has obviously recognized, and still tolerates the skaters, not without making things difficult for us, but this is another story.
It was just six issues ago that we graced the pages of this glorious magazine with our professional d.i.y. park in Glücksburg in the most northern corner of Germany. After three builds in four years we thought we were finished, but it turned out we were wrong.
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