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Working Group/Thematic Line 03

Urban Installations and Gathering Points

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Leaders

Agata Piet, Isabel Cristina Carvalho

Cultural program Coordinator

Alexa Faerber

Description

This WG is devoted to urban installations, dispositives, ephemeral constructions, that can range from community-built parks for children, temporary and emergency housing, structures that can promote exchange between citizens, selling points to encourage informal commerce or for sharing of resources etc. Often public institutions finance the temporary construction of these installations or facilities in public space, but do not implement solutions for a lasting support of the communities. Other times these initiatives are generated by the citizens themselves, who self-organise to find appropriate solutions that enhance and improve communication in public space and facilitate equal opportunities for all community members and sharing of resources – by using recycled material and shared resources. These projects are multidisciplinary, transforming architecture and design into a collaborative site where different agendas are developed and different stakeholders get involved.

This WG sets the objective to map creative and innovative solutions that the communities, but also socially-engaged art and design labs find in order to propose solutions not only for resolving a situation of scarcity, but also to socially revitalise natural or urban environments that are in decay. The WG aims to analyse how discrimination, lack of resources and protective measures for fragilized social groups can be counter-acted through investment in support of structures for cultural and social renovation. As in the other WGs the aim is to crystallise circular informal solutions and to elaborate their applicability for governance structures (in form of recommendations, tools for urban solutions, urban design etc.)

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