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placemaking | ecosistema urbano ecosistema urbano tv blog portfolio contact well-nigh us ecosistema urbano sitemappublishNo Access placemaking May 29, 2015 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Del detalle al territorio | taller de verano en Colombia por Bamboo Think Tank Category: ⚐ ES+arquitectura+comunicación+placemaking+sostenibilidad Tags: bamboo+estudio spn+Solar Decathlon+taller+Workshop Os compartimos la convocatoria sobre el 2º Taller Internacional de Verano “Del detalle al territorio”, que tendrá lugar en Colombia del 27 de Julio al 19 de Agosto de 2015. El taller lo organiza y dirige Bamboo Think Tank, una plataforma constituida por académicos, expertos en bambú y profesionales colombianos y españoles en el campo de la arquitectura y el diseño urbano, entre los cuales se encuentra el Estudio SPN: Juana Canet, Rut Cuenca y Elena Gómez y el director del Programa de Estudios Internacionales (PEI), Carlos Hernández Correa, de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá. Este taller continúa la línea de trabajo iniciada el año pasado, cuyo objetivo era potenciar el conocimiento local del recurso natural del bambú y la mejora de la habitabilidad en comunidades vulnerables, con el atractivo adicional de que este año el taller va a permitir a los participantes trabajar en colaboración con los estudiantes locales de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, que participan como equipo seleccionado en la parte final del concurso del Solar Decathlon Latino América- Caribe 2015, con el desarrollo de un prototipo de vivienda social, mejorando el diseño y las soluciones constructivas del mismo. El taller da la posibilidad, no sólo de aprender a trabajar con un material natural muy versátil y bastante desconocido por muchos, sino que además permite trabajar junto a la comunidad y realizar un proyecto de valor social. Aquí podéis encontrar más información sobre el taller. ¡Esperamos que sea un éxito! March 6, 2015 posted by jorge Comments: (0) Presentando local_in, nuestra renovada plataforma de mapeo colectivo Category: ⚐ ES+cultura abierta+participación+placemaking+social toolbox+tecnologías+urban social design+urbanismo Tags: desarrollo de software+local_in+mapeo+open source+software+software libre+software social+whatif ¿Estás buscando Whatif, nuestra herramienta libre de mapeo colaborativo? Te contamos qué ha sido de ella. Hace tiempo que no publicábamos nada sobre esta aplicación. De hecho ahora mismo no aparece por ningún lado: no está en nuestro portfolio, los buscadores no la encuentran, hasta en las redes sociales empieza a desaparecer. Sin embargo, el desarrollo dista mucho de estar parado. Al contrario: en los últimos meses el proyecto ha dado un importante salto cualitativo, desde el código mismo hasta el propio nombre. A continuación os contamos los porqués y los paraqués de estos cambios. protract reading June 9, 2014 posted by Athanasia Panagiotidi Comments: (0) Looking for love then | A creative polity project in Alaska Category: ⚐ EN+placemaking+urbanism Tags: Candy Chang+creative communities+ecosistema urbano+placemaking+urbanism ‘Looking for Love Again’ is a polity minutiae project implemented by the Taiwanese American versifier Candy Chang who was invited on 2011 by the AlaskaDiamondForum to create a public art project on the tallest towers in Fairbanks city. The Polaris Building, a landmark of downtown Fairbanks, was during the past an suite complex, then a hotel, and now it has been x-rated for increasingly than a decade. protract reading October 7, 2013 posted by Claudio Marras Comments: (2) Guidelines to build participatory and inclusive societies Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+art+city+creativity+placemaking+research+sustainability Tags: specimen study+citizens+Claudio Marras+involvement+methodology+participation+placemaking+punto d'incontro+sardinia+Strategies+tactical urbanism In order to unzip the Post-Master tabbed Urban Research Lab Sardinia – EnvironmentalDiamondat the Università di Sassari (DAP), in partnership with the Dessau Institute ofTracery(DIA) of Anhalt University ofUnromanticSciences, an vendible will be published well-nigh the project made during the italian period, under the supervision of Ecosistema Urbano: Punto d’incontro. This is an excerpt of the introduction, including some references and specimen studies. The role of the technie The role of the technie has unchangingly been, throughout warmed-over and modern history, a reference point for the municipality growth and development. Nowadays, this icon is undergoing a massive transformation, which cannot ignore social aspects. The modern technie helps to integrate production processes within the spaces users live and use in everyday life. The vendible aims to present an experiment that was personally led in a very specific local polity in Sardinia (Italy) which is unauthentic by logistic, economical and management problems. Through theoretical studies and personal wringer of a variety of existing projects, a detailed process was drafted in order to suggest a strategic whoopee plan. Western society has scarce resources and the European technie often asks the pursuit question, what can I do now without nothing? In this nonflexible times, it is far increasingly difficult for sealed solution to be imposed by a power minority than for specific temporary deportment to be unromantic based on grassroots talks, considering sensitivity is upper and social groups are highly resistant to unsuspicious any changes which have not come from within their ranks. Ecosistema Urbano (2011). “Negotiating at all level”. A + T 38. 120 Strategy & Tactics The first input to the transpiration came with the drafting of Agenda 21, a voluntarily implemented whoopee plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It emphasises that wholesale public participation in visualization making is a fundamental prerequisite for achieving sustainable development. The main goal is trying to involve the local communities in the construction process of the future of the cities. When public space is concerned, there are two ways to run over: strategy and tactics. Both are tools of equal value, but with variegated typology of method; they are usually known as top-down or bottom-up processes. Tactics are deportment which take place on enemy territory while strategy is unchangingly enacted on home ground. Which can lead to an firsthand run-of-the-mill sharing out of roles: strategy is an instrument of power, tactics are used by citizens; strategy occupies space, tactics play out in time; strategy is used to control, tactics to protest. De Certeau, M.(1988). The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press Recent developments of these concepts became well known under variegated name, but in essence they are all the same. Tactical urbanism. It is specified as small-scale improvements in an effort to effect large-scale, long-term change. Placemaking. It is the act of enlivening public spaces and places for the irradiation of the polity and its neighbors. Participatory design. It is an tideway to the assessment, design, and minutiae of technological and organizational systems that places a premium on the zippy involvement of workplace practitioners (usually potential or current users of the system). The pursuit scheme represents the stages of the experiment: The Iberian trip There was the necessity to unriddle the theory, exploring some specimen studies and finding some references. This processes are once very disseminated all over the world, expressly in USA and north Europe, where the citizens have a unconfined sense of polity and cooperation. Nevertheless this research focused on the Mediterranean area, in this particular specimen in the Iberian peninsula, where the lack of organization meets upper quality and creativity, typical of the Latin culture. Some of the cases shown here are real established structures, others are spaces under construction and constantly changing. The connecting link is unchangingly one of zippy participation. LXFACTORY – Lisbon An urban fragment, kept subconscious for years, is now returned to the municipality in the form of LXFactory. A creative island occupied by corporations and professionals of the industry serves moreover has stage for a diverse set of happenings related to fashion, publicity, communication, fine arts, architecture, music, etc. El campo de cebada – Madrid A group of neighbours tabbed Distrito Centro promoted a temporary use of the vacant lof of a former public pool demolished in a district of Madrid, during the time in which the work planned for urban reuse was not to be carried out. The intention is that the space will unbend all types of proposals/activities/projects (cultural, social, artistic, sport) for the use and enjoyment of the people of the district and all the city. Matadero – Madrid The old slaughterhouse and livestock market, where Matadero Madrid is now located, was built equal with the project of the technie Luis Bellido. The site was architecturally transformed. Matadero Madrid’s mission is to promote megacosm in all its forms and expressions. With special sustentation to cross-sectorial propositions, it focuses on three main whoopee areas: training, production and dissemination. Fabra i CoatsMegacosmFactory – Barcelona Fabra i Coats is a multidisciplinary space which will be promoting originative hybridisation to wilt a point of reference in originative research and in the generation of new quality contents, as well as a meeting point for groups, creators and proposals from variegated spheres and backgrounds. The goal is to requite support to originative megacosm and it has workspaces for the performing arts, music, plastic and visual arts, multimedia megacosm and moreover for projects related to information and liaison technology. Sometimes these kind of deportment are not supported by a physical space, but by the people that build their spaces through some joint iniziatives, occasionally supported by a politician organization or made by self-funded originative groups. Urbact It is a European mart and learning programme promoting sustainable urban development. They enable cities to work together to develop solutions to major urban challenges, reaffirming the key role they play in facing increasingly ramified societal changes. URBACT spans over 500 cities, 29 countries and 7,000 zippy participants. Collectif ETC Born in Strasbourg in 2009, this joint gathered energy virtually a worldwide dynamic questioning of urban space. Through variegated ways and variegated skills it wants to be a medium for experimentation. They believe that the variegated users of the municipality (residents and professionals) can all be involved in its minutiae to a wide range of scales. The purpose and importance of these urban experiments is not only the result but moreover the process that generates it, as well as the new environment and new policies it generates. Boa Mistura It is an urban art group worked at the end of 2001 in Madrid, Spain. Its members have diversity of perspectives, unshared visions which complement each other, and combine to create something unique and coherent. Madrid Street Art Project It is a noprofit undertone that through the organization of various activities and initiatives (urban Safaris, workshops, lectures, recovery rooms) aims to contribute to these reflections, to encourage citizens to enjoy urban art, contribute to its dissemination and support its creators. Conclusions The final vendible will aim to requite some semi-scientific guidelines to build participatory and inclusive societies. The new frontier of the technie should be to momentum local communities in the management of public and private space, involving them in the construction process of the urban renewal. This is when the architect, as a highly knowledgeable technician, plays an essential role to mend the relation between politicians and worldwide people. June 20, 2012 posted by Liz Eva Tøllefsen Comments: (3) Herligheten, urban gardening in Oslo Category: ⚐ EN+placemaking+sustainability Tags: supplies security+guerrilla gardening+Herligheten+Liz Eva Tøllefsen+Norway+Oslo+placemaking+sustainability Do you have a dream well-nigh planting your own mango tree? The statistic probability that you who are reading this live in the municipality is over fifty percent, and the number is increasing. This ways that fewer and fewer of us have the opportunity to grow our own fruit and vegetables, but are entirely dependent on the increasingly industrialized and transport-based large-scale agriculture. Urban supplies production is a growing trend in many cities, and productive untried spaces sally on rooftops, in ditches, between buildings and on the left-over spaces without a specific use. The motives for cultivating supplies are diverse, some see it as part of a strategy to increase sensation and knowledge well-nigh the supplies we eat (food safety), others will create a focus on local supplies as one of the solutions to environmental challenges, while others grow their own garden just considering it’s pleasure and to save money. Jennifer Cockrall-King claims in the bookSuppliesand theMunicipalitythat we are facing a supplies revolution as we have passed both the oil peak and peak water, and this begins to stupefy a growing global population:Suppliesand theMunicipalityexamines volitional supplies systems in cities virtually the globe that are shortening their supplies chains, growing supplies within their municipality limits, and taking their “food security” into their own hands. In Oslo, Norway, urban farming occurs in a smaller scale, including the Geitmyra sponsoring garden where you can be prescribed a soil patch for cultivation, and as guerrilla gardens, a increasingly freely and actionist worriedness where the city’s leftover spaces are used for supplies production without formal permission of the landowners. The latest wing to this untried trend where you can grow your own vegetables in Oslo is Herligheten (The Glory), an ecological initiative and project well-nigh urban supplies production initiated in April 2012 and ripened during April and May 2012. As part of a long-term minutiae and urbanization of the waterfront in Oslo, the developer Bjørvika Utvikling has carried out several temporary projects from stunts to pavilions which have been standing there for a few years. The events and installations are bringing human worriedness into an zone that for many years has been characterized by construction activities, but Herligheten differs from previous projects by a greater stratum of vivification of users and visitors, who are now shaping the new zone of the municipality with untried and consumable pleasures. Herligheten is located at Loallmenningen in Bjørvika, a rocky “island” in the middle of a rough towers site surrounded by roads, railway lines and the ventilation towers for the submerged tunnel underneath. It has found its home in an theoretically gray and idle landscape between the Medieval park and the Oslo fjord, which has for many years been seen as a lifeless place in wait for largest conditions. But during a few hectic weeks during spring the zone has experienced a small, untried revolution worked out by diligent volunteers who have transformed it into an oasis consisting of consumable plants, in what was previously a sealed zone for municipality residents. As of today Herligheten consists of three main parts: HerlighetenSponsoringGarden with 100 allotments, a field measuring 250 m2 where several types of warmed-over grain such as spelt, emmer, einkorn and bere barley will grow, and an worriedness program consisting of a number of events and seminars for learning and exchanging ideas. As many as 3790 people unromantic in April to take part in Herligheten through the disposal of one of the 100 allotments, so it is well-spoken that the people in Oslo have yearing to develop their untried thumbs. We wish them good luck with the untried revolution! Read more:Well-nighHerligheten in English Flickr gallery. It will be updated soon with photos of the growing plants! April 27, 2012 posted by jorge Comments: (0) #followweb |PolityPlanning Category: #follow+#followweb+⚐ ES+placemaking Tags: wiring de datos+case study+community planning+comunidad+escenario+herramientas+legislación+metodología+participación+placemaking+planeamiento+políticas+principios+proceso+recursos+referencias De nuevo viernes, día de #followfriday por Twitter, y un buen momento para conocer gente o ideas nuevas antes de cerrar otra semana de trabajo. Hoy os dejamos un gran aporte para la serie #followweb, una enorme wiring de datos de recursos y buenas prácticas, un punto de partida muy recomendable para cualquiera que quiera trabajar sobre el planeamiento contando con la participación de las comunidades: CommunityPlanning.net La web funciona como una wiring de datos con múltiples entradas enlazadas ente sí, y accesibles por categorías en el menú de la izquierda. A primera vista, la página no parece gran cosa, e incluso tras haberla usado un rato y haber entendido su estructura, la sensación es que el diseño no le hace justicia al contenido. Pero en cuanto comenzamos a hacer uso del menú y a visitar las diferentes secciones, cada clic da lugar a un sorprendente despliegue de recursos. En cada sección solemos encontrar una lista por orden alfabético, una ficha por cada elemento y varias pestañas que proporcionan información complementaria, y que merece la pena usar si se quiere llegar al fondo del asunto. Algunas de las secciones más interesantes: Principios: Una de las secciones más sencillas de la web. Aquí se puede encontrar una larga lista de principios relacionados con el trabajo de planificación con comunidades. Muchos de los que trabajáis en esa línea los iréis reconociendo como vuestros (o como aspectos que olvidasteis en un momento dado y se hicieron notar por sí solos) conforme los leáis: aceptar las limitaciones, ser flexible, no olvidar hacer un seguimiento, de grabar y documentar, aprender de otros, combinar métodos, andar antes de correr, etc. Métodos: No hay dos contextos iguales, ni dos proyectos iguales, requiriendo siempre un enfoque adecuado a las circunstancias. Sin embargo, eso no quiere decir que haya que partir siempre de cero, obviando toda la experiencia previa, más bien al contrario. En esta sección podemos encontrar una buena lista de métodos y técnicas conocidos y eficaces, que se pueden usar como ingredientes para construir un proyecto. En cada ficha descriptiva, una segunda pestaña añade más información, ordenada por consejos, costes, muestras de material, checklists e incluso citas o frases inspiradoras. Escenarios: Este es un buen punto de partida cuando arrancamos con un proyecto. Partiendo de un “tipo” unstipulated (como puede ser un desarrollo residencial, un plan urbanístico participativo, un proyecto de regeneración de un centro urbano, etc.) llegamos a una ficha con la descripción, una línea del tiempo que muestra el proceso tipo, y una serie de métodos relacionados con dicho escenario. A partir de ahí podremos seguir indagando, comparando y seleccionando los recursos que nos interesen para construir nuestra propia versión del proceso. Caja de herramientas: Aquí se incluyen documentos como formularios, listas de comprobación y plantillas de calendario, entre otros elementos directamente utilizables en cualquier proceso. Están en formato PDF y además en su formato original editable, de modo que podemos modificarlos y elaborar nuestra propia versión. Oportunidades: Con la idea de estimular la planificación creativa, la página incluye una sección dedicada a sugerir “cosas que las comunidades pueden hacer” para lograr mejores entornos de vida. Contiene acciones, proyectos o eventos que contribuyen a la mejora de las condiciones de una comunidad, desde soluciones energéticas a formas de compartir objetos y recursos. Glosario: No puede faltar en cualquier wiring de datos que pretenda aglutinar conocimiento alrededor de un tema. Un buen detalle práctico: cada término del glosario está marcado con etiquetas que enlazan a otras categorías de la web. De ese modo, podemos partir de un término genérico y ponerlo rápidamente en contexto viendo principios, métodos, estudios de caso, escenarios, proyectos, contactos y otros aspectos relacionados. Podría seguir citando el resto de las secciones porque todas son interesantes, pero por no extender más el post os invito a saltar directamente a la web y pasar un buen rato navegando por ella con tranquilidad: seguro que hacéis algún que otro descubrimiento. A nosotros nos ha parecido un recurso digno de figurar en nuestra serie sobre placemaking y de quedar bien guardado en favoritos para cuando pueda hacernos falta. Página web: communityplanning.net Grupo en Facebook:PolityPlanning Fuente: Michael Moradiellos ¡Gracias! February 6, 2012 posted by Manon Comment: (1) placemaking | Collectif etc Category: ⚐ EN+placemaking+urban social design+video Tags: collectif etc+detour de france+interview+Manon Bublot+place au changement+placemaking “Our projects are optimistic, unshut and focused on the spontaneous population of the city” – Collectif etcPursuitour last week’s post on Place au Changement, and still in the frame of our placemaking series, we were curious to meet with collectif etc. From the other side of the Pyrenees, we managed to contact them on their Détour de France, so they could share some impressions well-nigh their wits in Saint-Etienne, and ideas well-nigh placemaking. placemaking | Collectif etc from ecosistemaurbano on Vimeo. The Détour de France Since October 2011, collectif etc has started a Détour de France, a trip virtually France to meet variegated makers of the municipality – inhabitants, associations, professionals, institutions – who seek for volitional ways and models of generating the urban fabric. “The making of the municipality formerly follows ramified and vertical processes, equal to a hierarchy often excluding the population concerned. Public urban projects tend to remain in the professional field of architects, consultants and clients (often local or national administrations) and to generate isolated solutions from the community’s real needs. In response to this gap, new participatory processes are emerging in various cities in France, aiming to involve the population in towers their own living environment. We are off to meet the actors overdue these initiatives, and work with them in the social making of the city.” The itinerary was initially based on the collective’s established contacts, yet it remains flexible to any potential opportunity withal the way. Until stylized 2012, Collectif etc will be pedaling, meeting, sharing, creating, building, tinkering and designing, subtracting the preferred co- prefix equal to the variegated people they encounter on the way. Two objectives in mind: 1. make a census and build a network of the variegated actors involved in a social making of the municipality 2. interreact with them withal the trip on interventions in public space For french speaking readers, you can follow their progression on their blog, and we recommend you read the full unravelment of the project here.Zippysince September 2009, Collectif etc is a combination of sparking energy, innovative dynamics, social engagement, creative experimentation and human interactions. Their practice materialises in various forms – built structures, unnoticeable interventions, urban furniture, workshops and debates –  where the worldwide key is well-nigh generating a process, and towers a community. Their projects take root in the existing climates of mart and creation, grow from joint whoopee and intelligence, and catalyse the existing dynamics of the polity into the diamond of their living environment. In short, a vapor of fresh air in the telescopic of municipality related professionals. You can be sure to here from them again. January 30, 2012 posted by Manon Comment: (1) placemaking | Place au changement Category: ⚐ EN+placemaking+urban social diamond Tags: Berangere Magaud+collectif etc+Dames de Côte-Chaude+El Caminito+Ella & Pitr+Feedback association+Leatitia Cordier+Manon Bublot+place au changement+placemaking Place au Changement is a co-constructed square and a placemaking process conducted by collectif etc, to create the Giant’s square, a self-managed temporary public space in Saint-Etienne. Saint Etienne, Châteaucreux. Since 2008, the district entered a long-term process of urban transformation, a process of destruction, reconstruction, renovation, a process where variegated mutation stages and time-spaces side and cohabit, often leaving voids pending for weeks, months, sometimes years. And why not include these urban gaps in the process? Why not take wholesomeness of transpiration to colonize rather than procastrinate? Such were the questions carried out by the EPASE (Etablissement Public d’Aménagement de Saint Etienne) when announcing the competition “Défrichez-la” – literally suggesting “Clear it” – to temporarily occupy plot 58, at the crossroads of Ferdinand and Cugnot streets. Place au changement was collectif etc’s response, to diamond both a square and a participation process. The name itself plays on two layered meanings: the square Of transpiration and the process toRequiteway to change. The first intention, to reflect the on-going mutations in the neighborhood and remind the square’s temporary condition, was to diamond the square as a transitional step of its future outcome: on the ground, the imaginary plan of a future apartments building meant to replace plot 58, and on the surrounding wall, its respective section. And second, to diamond a process involving the citizens both in towers the proper square and its identity as a public space. “Make yourself a square !”. The familiar DIY tag line came out as a undeniability for participation while launching the liaison warm-up strategy, first step to pave the way for the upcoming event.Pursuittheir success in March 2011, collectif etc, withal with two graphists – Bérangère Magaud and Léatitia Cordier – initiated the process by making public presentations of the project in local steering assemblies, organizing meetings with the concerned political actors, contacting local associations, social centers and foster cares, negotiating with variegated municipality services the maintenance of the towers site and its subsequent public space, and opening a blog to alimony daily track of the project’s evolution, in order to spread the news in the greatest number of circles. On 14 July, the towers site opened to public participation. To involve the local inhabitants in the construction process, the work was organised in three thematic workshops, aiming to target people equal to their own field of interest, capacities and knowledge. The wall painting workshop, to dress the painted cross-section and rimming fronts with real scale drawings of daily objects, mainly involved the children of the Soleil and Cret de Roch neighborhood houses. The nationally renown street-artists Ella & Pitr moreover made a punctual intervention to paint the huge Giant, which later inspired the square’s very name, and unliable to summon national interest and local pride, while valuing the children’s work alongside. The gardening workshop, to diamond and plant the untried spaces of the square, spontaneously involved neighbors in the long-term. People voluntarily brought plants and tools from their own homes, and shared their knowledge, from which the joint had usually a lot to learn. On the last day, the group built a shelter to alimony the tools and a 1000L water tank which was well-set to be regularly filled by the local municipality service. The carpentry workshop, to make the square’s framework and furniture, involved any handy volunteer in the construction of the preconceived designs. A member of the joint withal with a neighbor who was spontaneously designated foreman by the team, were in tuition of driving and supervising the workshop, and helping people with the tools at the participants’ disposal. Place au Changement proposed to use not only the towers site as a public space, but moreover the towers period to schedule on-site events. A towers site is an event as such : sealed streets, unvarying noise, and permanent activity. Yet, whereas we tend to undeniability it nuisance, Place au Changement’s unvarying occupation was other: self-ruling and joint meals, tournaments, concerts, activities, performances, meetings… During three weeks, what was formerly a wasteland became a daily attraction. Every Fridays spoken a joint dinner, prepared by the women of the Dames de Côte-Chaude ONG, which gathered up to 80 people virtually a couscous, tajine and paella. Saturday nights held unshut concerts, which drew a miscellaneous public virtually improvised barbecues and unseemly drinks. Sundays gave out out-door movie projections, that welcomed students of the Gobelins to release their own short films. Associations such as Feedback association, who coordinated a circus introduction workshop, and El Caminito who offered tango lessons, made punctual on-site interventions to incite increasingly people to join the process. Two round-table discussions virtually the resider as an two-face of public space were moreover held, as times of reflection and debate with local associations, authorities and professionals, aiming to requirement for a increasingly horizontal cooperation and uncontrived liaison between the citizens, actors and administrations in projects of urban and public nature. On 1 August, the construction site ended in a latter event, marking a new step in the process, the opening of a public space in the neighborhood. To promote the citizens’ involvement, the most zippy participants had their name carved on a pole on-site, a poster was put up to explain the process, then naming all the stakeholders, and a booklet summarizing the project and three weeks of towers and lucrative site was given out to the public. A public vote by show of hands, undertaken by the citizens, renamed the space Giant’s square, without Ella & Pitr‘s huge painting on the rimming wall. The day ended by a latter concert and jam session, and a silent commitment not to lose what had been raised during the past weeks. For vastitude an architectural diamond and a square, Place au Changement built a self-managed community, and stirred up an worriedness of spontaneous uses – to be continued. January 23, 2012 posted by Manon Comments: (0) placemaking | Zuloark Category: ⚐ EN+placemaking+urban social design+video Tags: Campo de Cebada+interview+Manon Bublot+placemaking+Zoohaus+ZuloarkPursuitour last week post on the Campo de Cebada, and still in the frame of our placemaking series, we decided to interview Zuloark, so they could tell us well-nigh their own field experience. In the end, we managed to find two Zulos in El Ranchito, undivided in the construction of their newUnshutOffffice, and reservation a few minutes of their time among drills, nails and hammers. Ironically, they shared their story on the few remains ofMunicipalityIsland, first initiative at the root of the Campo. placemaking | Zuloark from ecosistemaurbano on Vimeo. “For us it has unchangingly been a kind of test, a laboratory where we would put ideas that weren’t necessarily very clear. […] The idea is to generate opportunities.” What is Zuloark? An office, a collective, a platform, a frame, a kind of commitment? – “You could be Zuloark.” Indeed. Zuloark is an unshut and unstable network, a group of individuals who identify themselves as such, as members of a joint identity. The collective’s organisation is based on a completely liquid hierarchy, a mutable structure waffly at all times and for each project, challenging the inherited hierarchical models. By defining itself equally in each of its members, Zuloark doesn’t focus its professional worriedness on a specific theme, but constantly aims to multiply and proffer its fields of intervention by generating various research lines, often linked to tracery and urbanism. You can tell their story from the very spaces they worked in, some virtual like Zoohaus and Inteligencias colectivas, others physical, like the Campo de Cebada, all focused on towers unshut networks and generating opportunities of co-working. In terms of working platform, Zuloark considers itself as a zone of proximal minutiae (ZPD), meaning the difference between what one can do with and without help. In other words it promotes a new knowledge environment based on a peer-to-peer model of horizontal collaboration and learning with increasingly capable peers. Which is precisely what unhallowed our interest. Despite its unstable and undefinable nature, Zuloark precisely finds meaning and consistency in the latter: a networked, unshut and unlimited structure aiming to promote joint intelligence and collaborative creation.Vastitudean office or collective, beyond fulfilling projects and involving neighbours, citizens to participate in generating their own public space, Zuloark calls for a step further: a completely unshut and horizontal structure, a new participatory model where professionals and participants are no longer distinguishable. January 20, 2012 posted by Manon Comment: (1) #followarch #web | Project for Public Spaces Category: #follow+#followarch+#followweb+⚐ ES+placemaking Tags: #followarch+#followfriday+#followweb+Manon Bublot+placemaking+pps+Project for Public Spaces De nuevo viernes, día de #followfriday por twitter, y un buen momento para conocer gente o ideas nuevas antes de cerrar otra semana de trabajo. Hoy os presentamos pps.org, a la vez página de presentación y blog de Project for Public Spaces. Project for Public Spaces se presenta como una organización sin ánimo de lucro dedicada al diseño, la educación y el planeamiento en relación al espacio público en la ciudad. Fundada en 1975, PPS es pionera en el desarrollo de procesos participativos, que incluyen el ciudadano como agente activo en el diseño del espacio público, y fueron unos de los primeros en  hablar y experimentar sobre el concepto de placemaking. Hoy en día, a través de investigaciones, conferencias y asociaciones estratégicas, PPS promueve el placemaking como enfoque para afrontar a los asuntos del espacio público. pps.org es un fiel reflejo de ese enfoque. Se muestra a la vez como plataforma de reflexión e investigación y como wiring de datos y esfera dinámica de contenidos varios, que tiene por único núcleo el espacio público y su desarrollo. La organización de la web es una de las más limpias y claras que hemos visto últimamente. En la parte superior se pueden ver unas categorías que diferencian los espacios públicos según varias tipologías: transporte, multi-uso, mercados, centros urbanos, parques, ciudades universitarias, plazas y frentes marítimos. A la izquierda podemos acceder a las partes más importantes de la web, como la lista impresionante de artículos relacionados con el placemaking, un buscador de “Grandes espacios públicos” del mundo, un blog siempre en búsqueda de nuevas referencias y toda la información sobre la organización, incluidos sus servicios y sus programas de formación. Te animamos a conocerles un poco mejor: PPS website PPS en Twitter PPS en Facebook Page 1 of 212»