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.
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.
Take notes. You won’t miss anything.
A nice article about Designing public spaces’ workshop with IED students.
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Live from Designing public spaces’ workshop with IED students _ Say cheese.
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Live from Designing public spaces’ workshop with IED students _ And now a minute of contemplation.
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Live from Designing public spaces’ workshop with IED students_Who says women are not good at DIY?
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People Make Parks is a joint project of Hester Street Collaborative and Partnerships for Parks to help communities participate in designing green spaces. This video illustrates the community tools used to engage the neighborhood residents in the renovation of Sara D. Roosevelt Park in New York.
It resides in the space between sculpture and public design. This is Tentvillage revisited by Studio Dré Wapenaar, a project to set up situations of encountering, carried out in 2007 during Estuaire Nantes.
Images by Dré Wapenaar _ All rights reserved
Prammen (The Barge) was a 150 square metres floating public space in the Skanderborg lake (Denmark). Designed by the creative Bureau Detours, the wooden platform hosted a camping area, a bar, a stage for little events, a kitchen and a little harbour.
Taking inspiration from the 1950’s Human Roulette at Coney Island, Amy Franceschini and Dan Allende from Futurefarmers have created a temporary public sculpture for Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale Of Urbanism\Architecture. It’s The People’s Roulette, an over-sized wooden structure conceived for children and curious adults, that have fun while it rotates faster and faster.
A new concept of playground by Auburn University Rural Studio at the Lions Park in Greensboro, Alabama (USA).
In 2010 Art Pit turned an abandoned fountain of Soviet Union time in Jaunas (Lithuania) into Art Square, a temporary community pool for recreational activities. The furniture and lighting by Justina Balčiūnaitė and Jonas Juozas Rudzinskas were made of repurposed old baths and waterproof materials.
