In public space we trust
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.
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.
reSITE Festival aims at reflecting on the current changes in urban planning in order to understand how to build public spaces for all and to use a participatory planning approach. From May 21 to 27 the city of Prague (Czech Republic) will host interdisciplinary conferences, workshops, film screenings, urban games, public design discussions and cycling events for both citizens and professionals.
To learn more: here.
Straatlokaal is a process of building social encounter by Foundation Projects. During the whole month of April the group worked with people and waste materials in three different district of Utrecht (The Netherlands), turning containers into small houses. From 5 to 10 May the brand new structures will be transfered in Neude neighbourhood and will become Straatlokaal: a public space with a daily programme of events.
At Dinner. In Three Acts _ It happened during Public Design Festival in a place in Milan. Story of the blind dinner by MakerLab, told in pictures.
Video by Davide Todini _ All rights reserved
Today at 12.00 the students of IED’s Master of Interior and Product Design will present the new pieces of outdoor furniture for Cascina Cuccagna, built during the workshop.
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Cook for Good is both a collective cooking performance and a creative way of health promotion. People will have a selection of ingredients to choose, mix and add, following the rules and the rhythm dictated by the cook. It’s today at 19.00 in a place in Milan. Come and prepare your own stuffed tomatoes!
Public Design Festival invites you to join the Exploring Public Space Slow Walking today at 18.30. From Porta Romana metro station to Cascina Cuccagna people will discover how a place can be turned into a public space though a radio-controlled walk: they will listen in the headphones to audio landscapes and thanks to smart phones they will read mob tags (QRcode) scattered along the way. Moreover the representatives of the association Cascina Cuccagna and of the exhibition Best Design will take part to the walk, sharing their stories about the neighbourhood. It’s a project by Urban Experience.
Public Design Festival presents a place in Milan _ Today at 19.00 the festival’s fourth edition opens with a party for all the city, a dinner and music. Come to know MakerLab, the IED students and a new public space for all the city on the corner between via Muratori - via Cuccagna 2.
MakerLab moves forward! On Friday 13th April everybody is invited to join in the potluck party at Art Kitchen Superground, to share dinner, insights and opinions about weather forecast for the next days, before moving to Cascina Cuccagna.
Bring something to drink or eat and a nice playlist.
Public Design Festival invites all of you to meet Observatorium, the Dutch artist group of Waiting for the river project, on Tuesday 28 February at 35 Via Vigevano in Milan.
From 15th to 30th March Brussels will host the second edition of Human Cities Festival with installations, workshops, urban walks and a symposium. Citizens, artists, professionals and cultural associations will gather and discuss about strategies and tools to shape public spaces.
Light changes both the urban perspectives and the visual recollections of public spaces we usually cross. As it happened during the Light Festival Ghent 2012 in Belgium last week.
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