I was trying to think about the first step for a mateterial design – I see that it is so often a lack of time for analysis the surranding in architectual projects… I’m big enthusiast of ‘dialogic city’ http://diaade.org/tekst%20JD.miasto.dialogiczne.html

yep:) I think that many cities have the city-game event, in Poland we have in each bigger city also. Here the website of one of them: http://www.urban-playground.org/ (sorry, it’s only in polish but watch the video – it shows very well how the people are engaged into a play ) this kind of action also [...]

hello hazem! thanks for sharing! it’s perfect! I love a phrase: “Nomadism and traveling is one of the important activities of an architect, in which he/she goes to the site and lives in it for a period of time, with its people” about nomadism – I did my master project about nomadism, analizying traditional meaning [...]

hello silvia! I’ve just found a project which is somehow related what you propose: http://www.atmosphereindustries.com/gentrification/,
I really like both – it seems to me be a kind of city-game with a social aspect as a main issue.

hello Hazem! can you give some link to info from workshop about nomadism? it has some blog etc.? I’m super-interested in nomadic topic and will be happy to learn something more about from different place! btw I like a theme ‘nomadism vs network design’ – it also set me thinking – it came out nice [...]

hello silvia! I just want to link here project which came to my mind when I read your post. It’s a project about this square in front of Centre Pompidou that you mentioned during the session today: http://www.aadip9.net/saki/2010/10/center-pompidou-as-theatrical.html (it’s a statment of the author about how he see this space) and here: http://www.aadip9.net/saki/2011/03/program-of-the-urban-theatre-f.html what I [...]

just one word to say: PERFECT!

hello Matias! thanks Francesco for mention! I started some time ago a research work about discovering non-existent city furniture items. I think that a way of thinking about the furnishing of urban spaces is the main problem. Unfortunately, it seems that as the main goal in the first place the furnitures are often only for [...]

hello rosana, when I was reading your text, it came to my mind the thing which occurred in poland, in one of the most industrial city on the south – Katowice. For the project which was done as a application for the ECC 2016 candidacy, they invented a slogan: the City of Gardens, which was [...]

maybe here you could find sth interesting: http://digitaltmuseum.no/search?q=stortorget+hamar&also_without_pictures=0&items_per_page=15&start=1

hello bozidar,
talking about the abandoned places….maybe you will be interested in this website: http://www.impossibleliving.com/blog/, projectpossibleliving is a kind of collection of abandoned buildings…

hello Jelena! I would like to share which you two links which came to my mind while I was reading your post: first is about the collaborative designing process in a network, here a text about approach of AL BORDE team: http://eme3.org/index.php?/eme32011/al-borde/ and the second is – I think – nice typographic work: http://www.placespaceidentity.net/?page_id=160, it’s [...]

hello Božidar! I would like to add sth on the theme of designing the urban furniture. I think that it’s important to mention here some thoughts from Christian Norberg-Schulz that each object which is in our surranding, creates a spacial scheme. This is a kind of composition, and it consits of everything between what each [...]

Maybe you should ask christian to help you with a searching in norwegian or people from onsite workshop which are from there?

hello sara, I think that for sure, using the psychogeography’s methods as a tool for recreating a stortorget into a place to be, stay and go, wound be a creative approach to a problem. We don’t know ‘subjective map’ of stortorget which for sure, is in the mind of daily users. Those stories which they [...]