In public space we trust
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.
The French web documentary is an immersive exploration of urban landscape: 8 street artists tell 8 different cities, from Singapore to Bogotá.
A Dialogue with Public Space is a project by Robin Howie to engage the inattentive passers-by with London’s public spaces.
Place: a parking lot. Tools: white tape, shopping carts and different balls.
It’s Don’t pay, play by Florian Rivière.
On 26 September 2010 in Cincinnati (Usa), 1500 people painted 56.000 square meters of pavement.
Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good is the theme of the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale, occurring in Fall 2012. The American entry focuses on interventions ranging from urban farms to guerilla bike lanes, temporary architecture to poster campaigns, urban navigation apps to crowdsourced city planning. Submit your projects by February 6!
Public Design Festival 2011 _ Photo by Guglielmo Trupia
Since 2008 over 350 disposable cameras have been left in public spaces all around the world with some instructions for the lucky finders: to pick up the camera, take some photos, pass it on and then send the camera with its precious content back. The aim is to build a memory-archive of stories, faces and landscapes.
How to fill vacant lots with creativity: artistic interventions inspired by The Play House during DesignPhiladelphia last October.
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by Koji Kakiuchi / Yaomitsu designing department, in Iwate, 2011, Japan
Using traditional japanese construction methods, they created a small open-air shelter conceived at a scale of a DIY project, which involves the notion of memory and time. In fact the construction sits on the some remaining foundation of the homes, that were swept away during the March 2011 tsunami. It took only 8 hours to assemble this simple cabin, so people are encouraged to do the same across the area with the goal to provide a space for victims to meet and exchange words about their past, present and future.
Within the Urban Activators program EME3_ON present an OPEN Call for Ideas: How much does your building weigh?
OPEN Call for Ideas: How much does your building weigh? challenges teams to take ACTION and explore your city, searching for non-consolidated urban spaces in need of ACTIVATION! Focusing on the design and realisation of mobile, elastic and inflatable structure(s), these ‘inflatable activators’ could literally be anywhere in your cities! They could be located along road infrastructures and they also could colonize strategic urban nodes or plazas but most importantly they temporarily transform them into active spaces.
You have until the 19th of January to register and submit projects !
more info here
Here Comes the Neighborhood _ Street art livens up a whole district in Miami (USA).
Today pOlau celebrates Saint Urbain launching a brand new project: it’s a virtual catalogue, which collects the most interesting short movies about practises of acting in postmodern cities, from street art to interventions for public spaces. Go to explore it!
Image by Joao Machado.
