Spaces for skateboarding in the city–new spatial concepts beyond skateparks

In this academic article, Dr. Veith Kilberth shows what opportunities cities and municipalities have to create diverse and inclusive spaces for skateboarding that go beyond traditional skateparks.
No true skating at the wrong spot? Skateparks and creativity

Creativity is all about finding solutions. How does someone skate a spot? What is even considered a spot?
How skate parks can be designed to be WCMX-friendly

Recommendations for a new user group in wheelchair sport.
Skateparks – Waves Of Concrete

A colourful and high-quality guide to the world’s most beautiful skateparks, created by the world’s best designers, architects and urban planners. Compiled and put on paper by David Andreu and Luka Melloni and available here. We are included with our favourite projects from Munich and Hof.
Considerations for relaxed coexistence in socially self-regulated (sports) spaces

Conflicts in the use of public skate parks.
Raising urban potential with creative design of urban spaces

A redevelopment case becomes a work of art for urban movement practices.
Redevelopment case becomes a work of art

In the 4/2022 issue of IAKS Sport‘s international journal for sports facilities and leisure facilities, sb, we present the design and concept of the skate park in the Hirschgarten in Munich. In the article, Dr. Veith Kilberth uses the example of this project to explain how and why especially the artistic-aesthetic design, beyond the sporty-functional […]
Veith Kilberth im Interview mit dem SOLO Skateboard Magazin

Das SOLO Skateboard Magazin hat sich mit Dr. Veith Kilberth über seine vor Kurzem veröffentlichte Dissertation ‘Skateparks – Räume für Skateboarding zwischen Subkultur und Versportlichung’ unterhalten. Im Interview spricht der LNDSKT Mitbegründer und ehemalige Profi Skateboarder von Think Skateboards über Ziele und Bedeutung der Doktorarbeit. Wie sieht es mit der Zukunft der Halfpipe a s? Wo, wann […]
Skatepark Design Inspired by Skateboarding’s DIY Culture

The international magazine for sports facilities and recreational sites published by IAKS Sport hosted a guest article about the LNDSKT Project Skatepark Berlin Lichtenberg in its April 2020 issue. According to the overall topic of the issue, ‘Activating Urban Spaces’, the article details how LNDSKT incorporates socio-cultural aspects of skateboarding into the planning process for […]
Skatepark Saarbrucken – A Skatepark Meeting Olympic Standards?

In light of skateboarding’s debut as an Olympic discipline, we contributed a critical guest article in issue 03/2019 of Playground @ Landscape Magazine. The main question is whether skateboarding’s inclusion in the 2020 Tokyo Games will have a direct impact on the design process and planning of skateparks in Germany (and beyond). The Olympics are […]