In public space we trust
esterni is landing in Guimarães (Portugal) from June 13 to 30, to revitalize the abandoned tannery in the Couros area. It’s Isto é uma praça project. esterni is looking for motivated people that would like to be involved during the construction’s weeks, but also interested in the process of engagement of the local communities.
To learn more: here.
Since last September the Dutch artistic duo Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, also known as Haas & Hahn, has been working in Philadelphia (USA), invited by Mural Arts, in order to revitalize one of the city’s oldest commercial corridors: a section of Germantown Avenue in North Philadelphia at the intersection of Lehigh Avenue.
Italian artist massimo bartolini has developed an expansive outdoor public library entitled ‘bookyard’ for belgian art festival, TRACK: a contemporary city conversation in ghent. Bartolini has employed his creative, mixed media talents to develop a set of twelve bookcases installed in st peter’s abbey vineyard, sint-pietersplein 14, the establishment originating in the middle ages. the sweeping shape of green shelves has been constructed upon a small grassy field, then moving up the gradual slope of st peter’s abbey in line with their vines.
The units are filled with books for sale by the public libraries of ghent and antwerp with the profits of these items to benefit the institutions. Visitors to the exhibition may bring home a piece of the artwork, an object housed in the shelves of ‘bookyard’ by leaving a donation of their choosing into a small box supplied by the artist and the libraries.
ghent’s intervention project, TRACK, officially ends on september 16th, 2012.
Ciudades Paralelas is a mobile festival created by Lola Arias and Stefan Kaegi that turns libraries, factories and other ordinary spaces into stages for performances and urban interventions. It takes place in the cities of Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw and Zurich.
Untitled #158 is the new architectural sculpture by Aeneas Wilder, where passers-by can observe the surrounding landscape and undergo a contemplative experience. The round construction offers a 360º view and is aligned with uniform vertical wooden slats. The installation is part of pit, the project of Z33 - house for contemporary art that brings artworks in public spaces of Limburg district (Belgium).
Photos by Kristof Vrancken - All rights reserved.
Since 2011 The Electric Hotel has been touring festivals and cities in Europe, becoming a traveling cultural and green spot. It provides renewable energy, created from wind and sun to charge mobile gadgets and it presents an interesting selection of movies on a LED-screen.
Created in Helsinki (Finland) in 2011, Restaurant Day is a one-day event that celebrates food culture. Everybody can participate setting up a pop-up restaurant in a park, on a street corner, in a sitting room or anywhere else. Next Restaurant Day will be on 19th August 2012 and will invade new cities.
Photos by Tuomas Sarparanta, Roy Bäckström, Henri Ilanen, Hanna Anttila and Heidi Uutela - All rights reserved.
Cities in progress: Please do not disturb is an exhibition featuring the work of FutureCityLab, an open-source initiative by a group of professionals and educators in order to think of a more sustainable urban development. The exhibition will be open from 22 May until 5 July at Aedes Am Pfefferberg in Berlin (Germany), hosting also workshops and discussions with experts to reflect on the future of our cities.
To learn more: here.
DOING IT DIFFERENTLY
It’s all about creativity and innovative entrepreneurship, pop ups, collaboration and the sometimes seemingly crazy. Doing it Differently looks at a range of creative and innovative solutions to the challenges of urban living. Creativity in all its forms is essential to the healthy evolution of urban environments, particularly when undergoing such rapid change.
Kylie Legge is a founding Director of Place Partners, a multidisciplinary place making consultancy based in Sydney Australia.
The 7th edition of Festival Bellastock 2012 starts today in the heart of Ile-Saint-Denis (France). In just 5 days 1000 students of architecture, with the help of the association Bellastock, will use discarded materials to build a temporary city on a site of a former warehouse. On Saturday everybody is invited to visit it and take part in the public workshops and meetings.
With the arrival of spring the Gartendeck has opened again on the roof of a parking garage, in the neighbourhood of St. Pauli in Hamburg (Germany). Anyone can go there, sow seeds and produce local foods, taking part in new forms of urban community.
To learn more: here.
Since 2008 the Norwegian studio TYIN Tegnestue Architects has been working in developing countries in order to find solutions to social needs, involving local people in both the design and building of the projects.
Built in Spring 2011 the Klong Toey Community Lantern is a public space where the inhabitants of the informal dwelling of Klong Toey in Bangkok (Thailand) can play, work and meet.
(Source: architekturclips.de)
The Creative Time’s online database contains over 350 projects related to public realm and civic engagement from the last 20 years, categorized by a series of criteria.
Identity Series is a project by the artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada started in the late 90’s as a reaction to invasive advertising and its icons. All around the world his faces of ordinary people have appeared and disappeared (the murals are made with charcoal).
