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 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.
During Public Design Festival MakerLab explored Cascina Cuccagna’s neighbourhood, collecting its memories and images through the voices of the inhabitants. The Stars of the Neighbourhood were portrayed, interviewed and then represented on playing cards distributed with shopping bags at the Shop of Cuccagna.
Follow Stelle del quartiere to learn more.
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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Turning places into public spaces _ Public Design Festival’s manifesto with clear and simple instructions for an everywhere enforceable and repeatable experience.
To learn more: here.
The MakerLab Residency has been going on, affecting little by little the block around Art Kitchen Superground. After the egg-bot’s experiment, people are testing new typologies of interventions in public spaces.
And while Cascina Cuccagna’s new pieces of outdoor furniture are under construction, in the eastern part of Milan the MakerLab Residency has opened. People are getting to know each other, sharing ideas and exploring both new tools and collaborative methods.
I love my Barrio is a project by Studio Publics, carried out in 4 neighbourhoods of Barcelona (Spain) to foster the sense of identity. The collection of smiling faces taken during the photo sessions was translated into urban projections on Centro Civico Convent San Augusti’s front.
It’s a collaborative platform of civil engagement, where to collect ideas for more livable cities that will be turned into reality. The tool is thought for South America but it would be suitable everywhere.
Via Vigevano is a narrow street of Milan with a town-looking aspect, where people still greet each other. esterni knows all its shopkeepers, from the barman with black glasses to the nice stationer. We have worked on a new way to make this network of friendships visible and to spread a socializing behaviour. At 19.30 we meet the shopkeepers. Will they like our idea?
Copenhagen X is an open platform born to discuss about topics such as sustainability and architecture, to tell the deep transformation the Danish capital city has been undergoing and to get to know the new public spaces created in the urban fabric.
Next April Makerlab will be back in Milan for Public Design Festival with a new project of creative collaboration: if you’re young students or professionals of any disciplines, join in the MakerLab Residency, a temporary hub where to share perspectives about urban issues and tools. The objective of the residency will be the creation of a public action during Public Design Festival.
To learn more: open@makerlab.info
In Paris (France) from 15 February to 23 June Lieu du Design presents the exhibition Sous les pavés, le design, showing the key role of designers in the process of creation of public spaces, assigning them to a function as well as a social and a cultural value.
For more information: here.
