Thursday, 4th August 2011 - Ideas, projects and interventions for a public design.
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esterni - design a city for all
We refigure and design any kind of space, we investigate the potential of places and give them a new meaning, thanks to the participation of local communities. Whether a working place, an education or free time facility, a square or an entire district, for us it's still a mainspring of social interaction and an opportunity for common growth.
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esterni thinks public
Public Design Festival under construction
Public Design Festival's team is already working on the 2012 edition, which is going to last a whole month! We are working on: an international forum on public realm issue, a renewal of an abandon public space by esterni, alternative hospitality projects, and many more. If you have any idea or project, if you like to candidate yourselves to develop the festival with us or if you have any advice, write us, you are welcome!
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esterni acts public
Milano Film Festival venues
From the 9th to the 18th of September, Milano Film Festival will animate the last days of summer with its programme: independent young talented directors, films premiere, music, get-togethers. The festival is mostly held in public spaces: the headquarters of the festival will be settled in Parco Sempione, with a 900 seats open-air cinema, a 12 meter high media tower, a meeting area and other structures like a hammock parking bay to enjoy the park. esterni, in collaboration with Alexander Roemer / ConstructLab, takes care of the venues' design.
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esterni acts public
Up! in the Garden
Is it raining gardens? esterni has created a new work of public design for vicolo Troni, a lane in the center of Imola. Look up! A garden suspended in the air symbolizing the re-appropriation of public space, an effort of public gardening seasoned with sage, chili and basil. Up! in the Garden is part of Laboratorio Urbano Permanente, created to transform the image of vicolo Troni with a series of temporary installations suspended in the air.
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esterni speaks public
esterni's hospitality project on domus
The international architecture and art magazine domus has just published a special report on hotels. A catalogue of new forms of hospitality made by a selection of projects collected all around the world. Boutique hotel, tree house hotel, design hotel, art hotel. Two esterni's projects, the Designers' House and the Public Camping, both realized on the occasion of Milan design week, are selected as example of temporary and low cost hospitality solutions.
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come and meet Marcus Willcocks, designer, research fellow, socially responsive design at design against crime research centre.
In public space we trust
Public Design Festival tumblr is a public archive open to everybody interested in the public space issue. Architecture, public design, urban actions, events and exhibitions, books and people to watch out for.
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installations
Folly for a Flyover
In the gap between the east and westbound traffic of the A12 in London (UK), Folly for a Flyover will host a summer programme of events, workshops, performances, screenings and even boat trips to explore the surrounding waterways. The Folly has been hand-built by a team of locals in a month, using donated materials; the structure reminds of the red-brick houses of Hackney Wick. At the end of summer, the temporary building will be disassembled and the single elements will find new functions across the area. + read more
project
Permanent Breakfast
Parking lots, parks, sidewalks, empty squares are perfect places where to have breakfast. Born on 1st May 1996, Permanent breakfast is an ongoing urban action in public spaces. Here there are the simple rules: one person creates a breakfast-event in a public space. The invited people (usually 4) commit themselves to organize another public breakfast with different friends in a different place as soon as possible, and so on and so forth. According to the snowball principle, there would be 1.6 million people publicly having breakfast no later than on the tenth day. + read more
call for ideas
Declaraciòn Universal de los Derechos Urbanos
Declaraciòn Universal de los Derechos Urbanos (Universal Declaration of Urban Rights) is a project by the collective zuloark: a public platform to reflect and discuss about our cities, open to everybody from citizens to government leaders. It aims at encouraging the development of critical thinking and learning to work for the common good. In this first phase the project is collecting personal ideas and opinions in the form of videos, asking to the people which urban rights should be protected, conquered and abandoned. You can participate uploading your own message.
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urban space
The Spontaneous City
The Spontaneous City is an inspiring book by Urhahn Urban Design, claiming the spontaneous and slow development, as an alternative way of thinking the urban strategy in opposition to the traditional large-scale city planning. It argues for a new approach of urban designers and planners, based on the importance of small initiatives with the involvement of local actors and on the principles of fleaxibility to adapt to changes and openness. The book presents a collection of references, from Amsterdam to Rio de Janeiro. + read more |
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